Criterion’s smash hit – Burnout Paradise is back with its racing and wrecking. The game has been such a huge success because of one reason – The terror you can do just by crashing into others. Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box is a re-release of the previous game, turning one hell of a good game, to an even better one. Last year, the game was release on the Xbox 360 and The PS3, now it’s being released on the PC. It brings out the true colours of the Burnout Series, making it another hit success.

You own a luxurious car, and you are able to explore Paradise City’s at leisure, in order to access the other 70 cars, you can unlock them through single player mode, or even join other players for races online. One of the pros in the game would be that Ultimate Box contains all of the downloadable content up to date. Online multiplayer will not be the same again with Codename: Cagney, which adds Stunt Run, Marked Man, and Road rage to it. An addition to all its goodies, the Bike packs enables day time and night time cycling to the series. Besides, what makes the game even more awesome would be the first paid-for content installed, Burnout Party. Burnout party is the type of offline party mode that enables at least two to eight players to play. Every player takes turns to use the controller, making it a fresh new way to experience Burnout.

As gameplay is pretty unchanged, experienced Burnout players do not really need a long time to adapt to this new part of the series. To newcomers, here’s a quick primer. In Stunt race, in order to achieve certain combos, you’re required to chain together some drifts, jumps and boosts. In Marked Man, your mission is to reach the finish line before your opponents can smash up your car. Road Rage would need you to eliminate your opponents by smashing and crashing them into objects.

One of the most noticeable and most long awaited new features would be the Burnout Paradise Party pack. As eight players race it out, you as one of them, would need to win with points obtained in every mini-game. It consists of three types of challenges: stunts, skill, and speed. The Stunt Challenge allows you to compete with your friend by performing insane tricks, the best one wins. Skill challenges you to drive against the traffic with boost on as long as possible. Speed basically means you see who reaches the finish line first. The new package makes you and your friend battles it out – to see who will be able to boost their way to victory.

Ratings: 4.7 out of 5

The online gameplay allows you to join your friends or play with random strangers online, and a plus factor is that online gameplay is easy to access and simple to set up races. Freeburn Challenge, will give you a variety of different challenges, depending on the number of Burnout Racers. If you do the math, there are about 140 new challenges added to the latest Burnout. With the new bike option, you’ll be passing your time with different events, let it be daytime or nighttime.

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