Joystiq [PlayStation]

Best Racing

Burnout Paradise
Criterion Games | Electronic Arts

Remember when you were a kid and you would play with toy cars? You would have them crash into each other in sorts of interesting ways. That childish sense of fun is what makes Burnout Paradise the best racing game of 2008. The crashes were always spectacular in the Burnout series. But this time, you're given a massive city to race around in. There's so much to do in Paradise City, whether it be finding billboards, doing stunt jumps, power parking, or simply racing. You will never run out of things to do in the game, especially once you jump online. Yeah, there's no "restart" option when you fail a race -- but when there's hundreds of races to choose from, it's easy to just jump into another one.

Reader's Choice: Burnout Paradise
"There's no denying this is one of the greatest racing games that I've played in a long time. Hard to find really entertaining arcade style racing game, and the amount of free DLC they've offered is unheard of for a console game." - VanillaMummy

26/12/08