Anybody knows if there is gonna be a menu that let's us choose a challenge without having to drive all the way back to the intersection? Of just a way to restart a challenge? I loved the demo, but i was really missing a way to quickly restart or choose an other challenge.

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i agree with jaybird.

burnout 3 was one of my all-time favorite xbox games. i skipped burnout 4 because I was planning to get a 360.

i was eagerly anticipating playing the new burnout, but I hate Paradise. if you're a fan of GTA or TDU then you'll probably like it, but i didn't like those games. The old burnout was all about racing, not wasting time driving from point to point. i played through the demo and tried out the new system and it was crap. a huge disappointment for me.

who cares that there's a big map? it's just more wasted time driving around. to me, that's not fun. any time not spent racing or earning points / cash / cars is just commuting. f that noise. i do that in real life.

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Seriously, if it bugs you so that the demo seems to be too much "driving around", or it sucks that you have to drive clear back across town to restart, go back and try it again. Pay attention and you'll notice that at pretty much every intersection a little message pops up saying "Event locked in Demo". In the demo you only have to drive across town because there are only 3 events. Once the full game is released, you'll only have to drive to the nearest intersection.

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I played the demo and agree with some of the views that Paradise has lost its way. Its not about racing anymore only... its like a hodgepodge of games such as TDU and NFS. The excitement just isn't there. BTW TDU map is HUGE this is so so when compared to that... I mean it took me over an hour to circle the island in a pagoda. Thats big.

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Yup, EA has ruined the series.

Demo was a huge let down, i hated it. Nothing like the old burnout games.

Freaking hate EA.

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Surprisingly, contrary to all the previous comments (keep in mind I've only played the Burnout Revenge demo before this...that has been the most interaction I've had with this series) I LOVED the demo and it is what has gotten me to the purchase decision of this game. I'll be spending a fair amount of time online racing with Knuckles.

Also, notably, I LOVE open racing games ala NFS MW and TDU. I hate Carbon however but that was because of the garbage driving physics.

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I understand what they were going for with the whole 'open city' thing, with no menus or anything to take you out of the experience, and sometimes it is pretty cool. But yeah events NEED a quicker way to be restarted. Just do it the same way as other menu choices in the game: press, maybe, left, on the directional pad, pick "restart" and have the camera pull back to the start of the event again similar to the crash mode in Revenge.

If something like this isn't in the final, I fully expect it to be patched in.

The other problem with the 'open world' approach is one I don't think they can patch, though. This is the first Burnout I've played that doesn't run at a completely smooth 60fps, but often dips and stutters in races or when stuff is loading in the distance. A complete let down for me, something that may possibly be fixed in the final version if the demo is an older build, but I'm not holding my breath.

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Meh, people stop dissing it. If you want the uber BIG free-roaming driving games get TDU or something. Just be thankful that they incorporated a free-roam, previous Burnouts were just recycled tracks!

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I think I'll be missing out on this latest Burnout. I played the demo and I wasn't impressed. Yes, it's got the graphics and crash damage that we all wished for but the gameplay was boring! The environment seemed too bland, there didn't seem to be enough traffic and there does not seem like there is a lot to do apart from race from one place to the next and crash every so often. I think the fact that it is free-roam has ruined it. And I actually miss menu-screens!

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