Burnout Paradise Remastered
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It seems like yesterday when we all played Burnout Paradise on Xbox 360 and PS3. However, they are already going for 10 years of drought for this frantic series of driving. Since that game we have not seen a main title of Burnout (Burnout Crash, downloadable and minor does not count). That's why we most people are surprised when a few weeks ago they announced a complete remastering of this game , gathering all its content and improving the right (that is, increasing its image rate per second to 60 and its resolution up to 2160p). It is the same game, but complete and a little more beautiful.
About the Game
Burnout Paradise Remastered is still one of the best driving games of its kind, no matter what happens. It's not just that the driving model continues to work like a charm, but it proposal of collisions, skids and an open world full of details is still as fun as addictive. But let's not advance events, and let's start with the basics: what is this game? It is an arcade-style racing title, one of those to accelerate first and touch the brake just enough to skid. To this we must add the intrigue of the series: collision with rivals is almost an obligation, and not only for the show they provide, but because if not, we will be the ones who will fly in a thousand pieces.
The open-world Layer
Finally, the open-world layer is added, the true novelty of Burnout Paradise with respect to its predecessors, which were focused on the competition completely, without collectables or trivia.
The result of all this was one of the best arcade driving games of all time , which offered at the time a good handful of hours of fun, exploration and spectacular crashes. It may have missed a dose of the immediacy of Burnout 3: Takedown, but it made up for it with a much greater variety of things to do. It also added an online mode that many games have tried to play later, with comparative bookmarks, shared world and lots of activities to do. Moreover, to some extent, we could consider that Burnout Paradise is the perfect precursor of the Forza Horizon series , since Playground Games almost describes many of the characteristics of this game.
Maybe that's why the formula of the title of Criterion is still as valid as it was a decade ago, despite having been overcome in almost all its aspects by one or other games that have been arriving later. In this way it open world is not so big anymore, neither is the graphical section so surprising (although it is still damn fast), nor it control as perfect as we thought then ... And in spite of it the certain thing is that we have returned to Engage in the Criterion game. The merit is of how very populated the game world is of things to do: posters, times to beat, doors to throw, tests and more tests at each cross ... Burnout Paradise Remastered knows how to catch you right when you're thinking about that one more and I leave it to you 'so that you can end up playing one, and another, and another. That has a lot, a lot of merit.
Content
In addition, all the contents that were published for the game are included , without forgetting the only big expansion launched, Big Surf Island, that extended the map with an island with its own missions, cars and collectibles. They also add motorcycles, special cars of all kinds (even if they arrive unlocked the most powerful, which makes the task much easier) ... Setting up a pack of the most complete, which will be able to entertain us for a handful of hours of the most frantic. In addition, the freedom with which we can configure our departure is phenomenal to the crazy spirit of the game, which allows us to choose even the route by which we want to reach our destination in most tests.
Online Mode
To that of the online mode that surprised many people at the time , but now is the order of the day. In essence we can share our game world with other users through the Internet, to add some salsa to the different races of the game (in case it was not enough the killer AI that seeks to crash against each vertex of the road or with each car that comes from the front). Yes, it sounds like something again, since there are many other driving games that already do this, but this fact does not detract from the work of Criterion, which manages to work as well playing alone as when we share games with other users anywhere. of the world. Mini-point for the network code of the guys from Electronic Arts, although it lacks the surprise factor .
Graphics/ Sound
Yes it is true that the improvement work has been fair, limited to raising the resolution of screen and textures to 4k and improve the rate of images per second. They could have taken advantage of to touch up here and there, and offer a complete remastering. For example, the drawn distance sometimes falls short, traffic is scarce too many times, there are invisible barriers in jumps, certain clipping errors ... Yes, it is minor details in a game that does so many things well , but now they sing much more than a decade ago. However, we must also be said that details such as the rival AI, the damage model of the vehicles or the profusion of elements in the open world have aged quite well, to the point of showing up to the most current games. The original soundtrack of the game does not need any retouching, which continues with the dubbing of the Castilian of the DJ of Crash FM to liven up the moments between songs of Guns and Roses, Mozart, Avril Lavigne, Alice In Chains ... An authentic sonorous joy that has recovered 90 of the 97 songs from the original soundtrack of this game..
Conclusion
Burnout Paradise Remastered is the perfect occasion to revisit a game that revolutionized the genre of driving, mixing it's swings and crashes with an open world full of surprises. This approach may not sound so spectacular anymore, but it's still damn funny. The same happens with the technical section of this adaptation, which keeps almost blindly what we saw a decade ago, but raising the resolution on screen and textures, and raising the rate of images per second and the screen resolution until the desired 4K More could have been done to offer a modern remastering, and not a simple port in full edition mode (for that of including the DLCs of the game). And taking all this into account, we remain hooked on command.
Happy Gaming!!!