2019
rolled the dice on the Epic store discount and for nine bucks it’s okay but man, can someone please give Three Fields a little money for the next one, if they’re even still alive at this point lmao
I feel like the people pining for pre-Paradise Burnout got pretty much exactly what they wanted with this one; car feel which would’ve been acceptable on PS2 but feels downright bizarre in 4K, extremely unpolished progression and difficulty (you start with just one event you can enter, which immediately requires you to win the race, with extremely harsh opponent rubber banding going on, in order to even think about playing something else - and some later events are a walk in the park), a stark lack of car options (each “class” just has three to five of the same car with different attachments and subtly different performance), the UI is straight out of the old Burnouts (for better and worse)
oh also it doesn’t have any in-game music, instead offering a “connect your Spotify Premium account” button lmao
the graphics are really quite nice, it doesn’t have that “I am an Unreal Engine game” sheen all over the place, it’s just overall a good looking game, the environments are nice to look at and the tracks are varied, if on the longer side
it’s a serviceable return to that particular era if you’re filled with a deep nostalgia for it, even if (graphics aside) you might be better served by throwing Legends into PPSSPP, but frankly I’m more of a Paradise gal, so this experience may instead compel me to grab Paradise Remastered off Game Pass 🙃
I feel like the people pining for pre-Paradise Burnout got pretty much exactly what they wanted with this one; car feel which would’ve been acceptable on PS2 but feels downright bizarre in 4K, extremely unpolished progression and difficulty (you start with just one event you can enter, which immediately requires you to win the race, with extremely harsh opponent rubber banding going on, in order to even think about playing something else - and some later events are a walk in the park), a stark lack of car options (each “class” just has three to five of the same car with different attachments and subtly different performance), the UI is straight out of the old Burnouts (for better and worse)
oh also it doesn’t have any in-game music, instead offering a “connect your Spotify Premium account” button lmao
the graphics are really quite nice, it doesn’t have that “I am an Unreal Engine game” sheen all over the place, it’s just overall a good looking game, the environments are nice to look at and the tracks are varied, if on the longer side
it’s a serviceable return to that particular era if you’re filled with a deep nostalgia for it, even if (graphics aside) you might be better served by throwing Legends into PPSSPP, but frankly I’m more of a Paradise gal, so this experience may instead compel me to grab Paradise Remastered off Game Pass 🙃
2020
aesthetically fantastic, love it, and it’s got big things to say and it says them well, but I feel like a little flavour text in the beginning of the game (hell, the first ~25 seconds of the launch trailer would do a lot here) or between levels would’ve bound it together more for me (why am I delivering parcels? what does that have to do with taking photos? the answers are in articles about the game, but seemingly not in the game)
I wish the scavenger hunt type gameplay didn’t have the timer, as that seems counter to the concept of methodically lining up aesthetically pleasing shots - for a game boasting giving the player creative control it feels odd
I wish the scavenger hunt type gameplay didn’t have the timer, as that seems counter to the concept of methodically lining up aesthetically pleasing shots - for a game boasting giving the player creative control it feels odd
2009
Uninspiring, cut-down and effectively pointless, they streamlined the wrong bits of Gran Turismo and there's not much worthy of your attention left