burnout paradise remastered switch review

There’s nothing more satisfying than watching your opponent’s vehicle smash into pieces as you ram it into a barrier! Cars crumple and spit debris in dramatic style. Even the bridge across to the island has an insane jump to try without wrecking your car.Īs with its predecessors, Burnout Paradise Remastered features some of the best slow-motion crashes that you’ll see in a video game. The included Big Surf Island expansion adds a lot more extreme stunts, jumps and fun things to do.

There are even special cars driving around that can be won by running them off the road.

There are loads of shortcuts, jumps and billboards that need smashing. Triggering boost makes the already fast cars accelerate at such a rate it’s hard to keep them from scraping against the barriers.

Speed cars drive at breakneck speed, stunts are better at performing some of the insane tricks scattered about the city and aggression cars are best at taking out the opposition by smashing them to bits.ĭriving dangerously, like against oncoming traffic, doing stunts and taking down other cars fills up your car’s boost bar. Special cars like toy cars and legendary movie-inspired cars, aside, each car has a speciality. Each road also has a record time to beat. Stunt events require players to notch up stunt points by jumping and flipping their cars.Įach car also has a Burning Route (Burning Ride for bikes) which are beat-the-clock events to the finish line. Marked Man turns the tables with opponents, instead of trying to destroy the player before they get to the finish line. Whilst some of the events are just point-to-point others, like Road Rage events, require players to takedown other cars by smashing into them or running them off the road. Players must navigate using the map and the street name directions on the HUD. Each race finishes at one of the eight locations on the map. And now, with the Switch, you can play it wherever you want to.īurnout Paradise Remastered drops players into the vast open-world of Paradise City where they will, literally, find a race at every intersection.

Throw in all the DLC content, including the Big Surf Island expansion and the extra car packs (which includes an awesome Back to the Future inspired car) and you’ve got one of the best racing games ever released. Criterion’s Burnout Paradise gets yet another re-release, this time for the Nintendo Switch with Burnout Paradise Remastered.įast cars, fast bikes, a meticulously detailed city, breathtaking races and teeth-shattering crashes, Burnout Paradise Remastered has it all.

Burnout paradise remastered switch review