Burnout Paradise Remastered for Switch Video Review

Gaming Pastime reviews Burnout Paradise Remastered for Switch.
Developed by Criterion Games and published by EA, Burnout Paradise was released for Switch in June, 2020. Burnout Paradise is an extremely fun game that delivers an intense action-packed racing experience set in a vehicular playground.
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[@CturiX.IREALLY]

The open world during races was always difficult for me to get used to. That and the weird gps/direction system during races

[@ChaseMC215]

I got used to it, considering I have played Need For Speed.

[@BioBlame]

Been loving your Burnout reviews. Hope you do a review for Burnout Crash to finish off the marathon. Much love from the UK.

[@mrsnippysnoopa8300]

gave the game to my nephew. he liked it. nephew/10

[@SicSemperBeats]

with the camera in the bumper mode, the sense of speed is insane. if anyone walks in on you linking drifts and dodging in the fastest cars they think youre a gaming god haha. The audio was really good in this game too

[@Ckoz2829]

I started playing this recently. It’s alright. My problem is that I keep looking at the map and crashing. I dunno if it’s me, but I’m constantly missing my turns in this game and it’s preventing me from fully enjoying this it. Maybe if they had an assist mode that gives you guide arrows, but that kinda defeats the intended purpose of plotting your own route. Maybe when they show the map before a race it wouldn’t be so hard to plot points to follow, but that would really slow the game down. The compass is almost useless as well. I dunno. I think Burnout should have just stayed a track racing game.

[@vladalexan]

The turning signals light up to suggest you take a turn in races actually. Neat subtle hint

[@Ckoz2829]

@@vladalexan I noticed that, but maybe I wasn’t my paying enough attention to it. Next time I play I’ll try looking at the turn signals. Thanks for the tip, btw!

[@rafterman5072]

I remember the commercials for this game with the Guns n Roses song. The good old days...sigh.

[@MiyaTakamura]

Favorite car in Paradise City: Montgomery GT2400. Wished that car have been given a lot more love.

[@IVSAKENSOUL]

The Burnout Series has copious amounts of untapped potential

[@DimwitDangerous]

Ah I remember not knowing about showtime mode until after I got my elite license

[@mazda9624]

I spent so many hours with this game back in the day and it at one point held the record of most hours I’ve put into a single game (500+ hours at the time). Shame this was the last true Burnout game and we’ll never see another like it ever again. The Switch release of the game had me feeling a bit conflicted as I was super happy that the game was being rereleased to a new audience, but at the same time I knew that it would be more than likely the very last time a Burnout game would ever be released. RIP Burnout 2001-2011(2020). You will be missed and this little series was a great trip down memory lane. Thanks for sharing.

[@geg_otmopo3]

500+ hours? HOLY SHEET

[@koryandrews1665]

I enjoyed this game for what it was, crazy, stupid fun. Had the original version on ps3, got the remaster on ps4 and I now want this remaster on Switch. I'd love to play this game portably.

[@DominikSobolewski]

Didn't like the open-world structure for the Burnout series this went for.

[@ChaseMC215]

If you don't like it, then don't play it

[@DominikSobolewski]

@@ChaseMC215 I'm not allowed to share an opinion of a game for a game review video? That's something new.

[@DominikSobolewski]

@@ChaseMC215 FYI I don't play it. There are hundreds of games worth playing, both old and new, that I haven't touched. Why would I play something I don't like?

[@ChaseMC215]

@@DominikSobolewski That's my sugestion if you don't like Burnout Paradise' open world structure

[@DominikSobolewski]

@@ChaseMC215 Thanks for the suggestion.

[@Sqdlow]

My only issue is how easy and repetitive the races are. Theres not much variation with the races, they always tell you to go to the same 5 locations. If only it had some proper race tracks like the older games, and theres no car class distinction. Meaning all the cars you unlock will quickly be replaced, and the legendary cars are so OP

[@player-lit5715]

I found your channel not that long ago and I must admit I'm really digging these reviews - keep up the great work! I also wanted to ask if there any plans to go over the Full Auto games? I personally have enjoyed the 2nd game quite a bit, but was disappointed to find that basically nobody has covered them.

[@RacerC45]

One small issue I found is with the modified cars. When you start driving them, they won't gain any mileage until you go back to junkyard and re-select them, and when you drive the regular version, they're reset back to 'new'. This was an issue in the original version, and it's carried over here. You'd think they would've patched this by now, wouldn't they?

[@Arexion5293]

I have one major gripe with the game that basically affects all aspects of the gameplay. It has no track design, not a single checkpoint in a race, which means the game never makes you explore the city in any different ways. Numerous roads serve no real purpose when faster routes exist, all stunt events boil down to the same strategies because you can get around the whole city while keeping a chain going. Since the races are all about the same optimal routes, the game becomes very repetitive. Did you ever drive across the entire highway? It's a very cool highway with neat details, but the game gives zero reason to ever explore it! The game really would've benefitted from copying Midtown Madness/Midnight Club checkpoint design, as it makes the player explore the map in different ways while also putting a large emphasis on finding shortcuts.

[@patrxgt9691]

Maybe the next racing game series you review will be Midnight Club?

[@j-asher]

It is a good game but I could never get into it after playing Takedown for so long, the map is counter intuitive to a game that moves this fast, and to make it worse, it doesn't rotate with the driver, like on most other open world games, so you often miss turns, I did buy it again on PS4, hopefully I'll have better luck with it this time round.

[@NJTCOMET]

Burnout always tried to introduce new things each installment and I applaud them for taking such a big step in letting the series evolve instead of just becoming redundant each title. I just wish that aftertouch and crashbreaker was reimplemented. Once you get used to using them there absences is jarring. To me 3 probably won’t ever be topped even though Revenge is amazing and this game is too, however once the formula was perfected I think efforts to top it just became futile. The open world is beautiful and well crafted, but sometimes I find it just distracting to get to places and it just cuts you out of the high adrenaline racing events which really is the highlight. Just driving around, wrecking and jumping can be fun but it does get old, where as in a previous game a simple menu selection put you right in the action. I really like Paradise, but I’m still not convinced it’s the best of all, maybe better then Revenge, but Takedown will probably always be the perfect entry in the series that just got everything right.

[@migueeeelet]

All I miss in BP is normal races. The "You're here, go there" is nice until you realize you're doing the same routes.

[@lunarstain7545]

Wow! Early upload this Friday! *sips coffee*

[@MysticMage255]

Great review! I love this game. I know it receives a lot of hate due to how different it is, but I appreciate it for what it is. I still prefer Burnout 3 as my favorite Burnout.

[@habadasheryjones]

It's just the absence of a real crash mode that gets me about this game. It was a beloved mode that was reduced to small gimmicky input in this game. Paradise has everything else I love about Burnout despite it's open world.

[@VonSlakken]

I was a big big fan of Burnout 3 and Revenge. Something about Paradise just felt extremely bland and like a flaccid Burnout experience. The intensity was lost, and the incorporation of the open world severely limited how cool race tracks could be. I personally felt that the open world aspect (like many open world games) served as a time-waster more than anything.

[@Spooner88]

Currently replaying this now. Been waiting to hear your thoughts

[@Johnny-ux7yi]

''no Slayer unfortunately'' it does have My Curse by Killswitch Engage though. and also Burnout Revenge had Metal songs like Hand Of Blood by Bullet For My Valentine, KMFDM's remix of Straight To Video by Mindless Self-Indulgence, As The Tables Turn by CKY, Bundy by Animal Alpha, Life Burns by Apocalyptica and also Beast and the Harlot by Avenged Sevenfold. have you heard those songs?

[@pippo17173]

Good to know the switch port has effort coming from EA.

[@choppervonwhopper]

just a heads up : you can get into a junkyard from anywhere on the map (offline) by "loading" into it.

[@silhouettoofaman2935]

I'm not a big fan of this one, unfortunately. It's still a fundamentally fantastic game, and i'm not putting down open-world racing games. I'm just saying it's not a genre for me. I prefer more closed circuit, lap-based racers. But who knows, maybe i'll give it another shot.

[@EddyTheDevil1]

I enjoyed this game very much I had way more fun than a lot of racing games nowadays, it was the first one in the series that I've played on PC since I've never owned any consoles and I can't help but have a soft spot for it. I get why longtime fans hate it though.

[@audascape5698]

Wish the game had more variety of cars and music, the only thing i didn’t quite like was the use of vehicles that got reused. From the original base model to carbon fiber, toys and cops. Its cool but i feel that they could’ve used the cars from most if not all Burnout games. Its so lonely and barren, and its not as vibrant either. Another thing that they could’ve done was to have the cars roam around once unlocked. Instead of having them appear get taken down and never to be seen again. Having to only see them in races and see they disappear is unsettling imo. Would’ve been cool to roam around the city and seeing the other cars wizzing past, crashing, jumping around.

[@justanotherghost4589]

I always did love Burnout Paradise, when it comes to the bikes they sound great, like actual bikes unlike seemingly every other game lol, I always actually liked them, usually I don't care much for bikes in games, I'd prefer that we had more cars from Burnout 3 and Revenge though, including the more civilian version of the Revenge Racer, I also agree on an offline cop mode, that would've been really fun. One last detail, I really really wish more modern games had the custom single player time system this game has, imagine GTA or something like that where you could have realistic passage of time.

[@JohnHenryEden2277]

Are you going to review Burnout Crash?

[@-SoonerorLater]

We don’t talk about that one.

[@SicSemperBeats]

@@-SoonerorLater it wasnt bad though lol. I had a great time with it on the ipad

[@HeyItsRidi]

I have struggled to enjoy the navigation system during races. I too easily miss my turn due to not knowing. Everything else is pretty good though.

[@GroverMonster]

Your vehicle’s turn signal will start flashing showing you where to turn

[@RacerC45]

You know, would you believe this was the first Burnout game I've ever played? I'd even managed to get the Burnout Elite license in the remastered version. The only thing I wished was to have difficulty scaled to the type of car. As after the you earned the aforementioned Burnout Elite license, the difficulty would be the same difficulty you finished the game with. This is apparent in the Road Rage and Stunt Run events where the score increases with each successful runs. The Road Rage events still has the same stronger cars, and races will always have the same faster cars, making these events impossible if you're retrying them with a slower vehicle.

[@d.ryan96]

It does scale but unfortunately only for dlc cars

[@GamingKick]

Burnout 3 > Burnout Paradise

[@DannyBenS94]

I love this game, but I have no idea where'd I'd rank it, cause I also love Burnout 3 and Revenge. I use to play the standard version on PS3. It's nice that Remastered has everything included.

[@Ikcatcher]

The sad reality when you realize this is the last proper Burnout game in a long time

[@garrettbot143]

Umm I wouldn't call open world proper for the series since it's the only one out of all of them like it hence why it's terrible.

[@spiderjerusalem8284]

My only complains about this game: Crash events > Shwtimes. Slower cars can´t be used in later stages of the game, so too bad if your favourite car is unlocked early in the game, making AI rivals fit their cars to you current car would be a proper fix to that.

[@arandominternetperson4462]

1:32 It might sound stupid, but If you have OBS or connected a camera to your PC It will crash the game for some reason... If you wanted to get past the intro you should've disconnected your camera or unistall OBS...

[@ChaseMC215]

The Core Fixes mod for the game doesn't fix this bug, and I don't think EA gives a shit about Burnout after they released the Remastered version on the current gen platforms

[@jovhannyfeliciano7179]

This game on the Switch is cool. I just wish people that are new to the game can learn to do a single Freeburn Challenge. Im getting so close to the Diamond P12.

[@ChaseMC215]

Yeah... as far as I know, the PC version is pretty buggy, I have the game and I trird to plah it on a computer that meets the minimum specs, and it still crashed, and it didn't even get into the game. As far as I know, it's unfixable

[@alexmichaelraccoonplays8777]

I really love burnout 3 and revenge. Since I love those that much I bough burnout paradise expecting a similar experience, but for some reason I didn’t like paradise that much.

[@TheRageLivesOn]

when this was crashing on PC for me, it stopped crashing after i unplugged my capture card

[@ChaseMC215]

My game just crashes entirely until I disabled the Steam Overlay and my camera on my Laptop, and it does work on Windows 7 as long as you don't use the camera to take a portrait for your license, which shouldn't happen when you decline that option, there is no way to strictly use your Origin account picture unlike the PS3, Xbox 360, and PS4 versions where if you don't have a camera plugged in, you can skip the picture process for when you start fresh or when you upgrade you license. Anyway, Burnout Paradise remastered on PC sucks balls, and it was clearly EA's fault for releasing it on that platform in a buggy state

[@peter-w]

I hate looking on the mini map all the time. But anyway it's a great game.

[@vladalexan]

You could actually ignore the minimap and look at the turn signals

[@milansta9687]

What about your serious sam 4 review?

[@Gamingpastime64]

That's certainly a game we want to review.

[@Johnny-ux7yi]

any chance of reviewing the Need For Speed games? i'd recommend starting Hot Pursuit 2 until NFS Heat every Friday. your thoughts?

[@ChaseMC215]

He did Need Foe Speed 3: Hot Pursuit

[@Gamingpastime64]

We will be re-reviewing III. A review of Hot Pursuit 2 is also coming.

[@emulation2369]

I always HATED those obnoxious, forced "training" videos, that you can't skip in the beginning of any new gamemode etc

[@TheCaptainSplatter]

How does it work without analoge triggers on switch?

[@epicforger12345]

Sick of companies calling these remasters when it’s just slightly better graphics

[@cannedbeverage7687]

That's literally what a remaster is, for better or for worse. A "polished" up re-release is the most common type of remaster. You do have remasters that try to actually improve the graphics, like Saints Row The Third Remastered and Crysis Remastered, but such remasters are often criticized for straying too far from the original (especially Crysis Remastered being the most recent example).

[@justanotherrandomontheyout4791]

That's what a remaster is you just up rez the visuals and port it the newer consoles

[@mitchellgoldstein1573]

you just explained what a remaster is, congratulations

[@exaltedreverse4463]

Well it looks more like remaster on ps4 and xbox one. No more fuzzy edges. Also I'm glad it's 60 fps

[@anakinraliere5637]

YEAH LETS GO

[@spectr__]

Paradise was really disappointing. Also, why is everything greenish?

[@ChaseMC215]

First of all, How dare you shit on Burnout Paradise, second, camera filter

[@AlexReyes-nf7sm]

👍🏻

[@SixShots5]

👍

[@vietguy808]

No people

[@justimagine2403]

NO... remastered is missing the CRASH BREAKER that the PS3 version had. BOO !

[@hatboi_xd]

im sad dj striker didnt make a comeback, two radio hosts sounds better than one

[@ChaseMC215]

Stryker was busy with personal stuff, as far as I know.

[@tropixx_xlr1549]

I loved hearing atomika

[@lgz2006]

The pinnacle of *Burnout.*

[@jonathans303]

That was 3

[@Jonnygunboy]

Pinnacle? Paradise? I'm calling an ambulance cause you've clearly OD'd on crack.

[@alexmichaelraccoonplays8777]

I assume you didn’t play burnout 3.

[@lgz2006]

​@@jonathans303yeah, been 3 years passed, of course my opinion would change

[@lgz2006]

​​@@alexmichaelraccoonplays8777unfortunately, as I have played Burnout 2 on PS2, and Paradise on PC, but at least in current time I play Burnout Legends and Dominator on PPSSPP emulator on my phone, and the latter of the PSP game is for sure reminds me 3's greatness

[@fu102]

The worst Burnout game imo is Paradise City. The navigation is awful, the tracks are all over the place and not tight, theres a serious lack of colors (other than blue and gray), the bouncing "crashbreaker" is ridiculous, and its missing some big features from the previous games. Please also review Danger Zone, Danger Zone 2, and Dangerous Driving, as they are spiritual sequels to Burnout and made by some ex-Burnout devs.

[@tropixx_xlr1549]

They aren't as good, they feel cheap.

[@Skotzenn]

After loving 3 and revenge I HATED this game, still do, complete betrayal.

[@Skotzenn]

Never said it was, it's called an opinion. The lack of local multiplayer, no crash mode, having to pay attention to navigation while racing so I don't miss turns when I should be focusing on my opponents, the slower pace of the gameplay, the way the vehicles handle compared to previous entries, and really really can't stand online play, I've never not found it to be a complete waste of time. This game was a massive disappointment to me, they finally make a proper next-gen burnout game and it sucked out everything that I found fun about the previous games. But y'all can like it all you want, people love Madden and I don't understand that either.

[@RegBeta]

@@Skotzenn I have to agree, give my Burnout 3 and Revenge any time of the week.

[@RebuiltBurrito2]

probably my favourite game

[@roni6135]

Isn’t the pc version on steam as well? I never use origin

[@spaceturd64]

it will still run through origin

[@Olie956]

Had a group of friends that played this online on the Xbox360. They joined a game with a pair of drunk women, Lol. In this game, whenever you would crash into someone it would snap a photo, if you had the web cam connected to the Xbox360. They crashed into these women to troll them and, every time mind you, the women would flash the cam. You ended up with so much T and A that you wouldn't believe it. Lol. Fun times.

[@nicholassucre4834]

The only way I could describe this game would be: Under developed

[@ThePixySoloWing]

?? How ?