

The race challenge, as you might expect, involves the player and a number of A.I. Challenges include a race, burning lap, and the all-new stunt challenge. You start off with only one challenge in the demo, but you can unlock more as you go along. Challenges will appear on your map and will be available at different stoplights. Once you become well acquainted with where you are, you can find challenges.

The demo gives you plenty to explore, so you could easily spend an hour or so just driving around the map and learning about your surroundings. All of the events in the game will take place on the same map, so it helps to drive around a bit to get a feel for the area, and where major landmarks, shortcuts, ramps, and other noteworthy objects are. You'll be able to drive around and discover new challenges and gameplay options as you progress through the game. So needless to say, you can spend a lot of time exploring the different areas, discovering different routes, and causing general mayhem for the upstanding drivers who have the misfortune to drive on the same road as you.Īs I've said before, the main draw of Burnout: Paradise will be its open-world system. This small segment of a larger crossed off map looks to be about 10% of the entire map that will be available in the full version of the game. It features a small section of the open world in which you can explore, compete in challenges, and even play online. While most demos give you a time limit with which to play or give you a small linear sampling of gameplay, this demo really gives you insight into how every facet of this game will work. Recently, I was able to assuage some of the pain with a surprisingly deep demo made available on Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network.

I knew it would be a difficult few months to wait for this one, but I was ready to endure it. The word "hyped" did not begin to cover the enthusiasm I had awaiting this game. The expansion of the overall game experience, including the incorporation of an open-world system and the less-structured event experience, all sounded like positive steps for the newest itineration of the Burnout series. Call it pure speculation or gamer's intuition, but from the moment we first got details on this hot upcoming title, I was impressed with the great strides the series was making in terms of gameplay. I've known for quite some time that Burnout: Paradise was going to be awesome. Now the Burnout franchise returns to the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3 with its newest entry, tentatively titled "Burnout Paradise" However, it's made enough steady improvements over the years to keep itself fresh and updated. It's one of the rare series that was able to retain the same formula that it gave us nearly seven incarnations ago. DecemBurnout has been one of the most successful vehicular franchises since it's induction in 2001 on the PlayStation 2.
