Playing Burnout Paradise today, something else stands out: the speed.
This is a series that fetishised car collisions within dedicated crash modes where you rack up points for smashing your driverless car into a busy junction, after all. When you think about Criterion’s Burnout series, what sticks out? Perhaps it is the crashes: the twisted, crumpled metal the sparks the madcap destruction and the debris splintering from cars, careening through the air in slow motion. No one makes arcade racing games like this anymore - how does Burnout Paradise feel in 2018?
