The Triumphs and Tribulations of Wiz

I have started using swapgame again to rent games for the past few weeks of the summer holidays as they decided to give me a month half price. Anyway, first game that I got was Burnout Paradise and what a good game I got. It is just the same as most other burnout games and takes place in Paradise city. For the past few days I have had lots of fun playing it, there is lots of depth with over 75 cars to unlock and 120 different events to compete in. Even if you don't like racing then there is definitely something that you can do. I personally found the road rages to be great fun just trying to find the heaviest car and deliberately forcing your opponents off the road is satisfyingly good if not a bit nerve racking, wrecking your car also means you damage it and wreck it too often and you lose the event. Then there are 0ther events such as stunt runs and marked mans where you have to get to a place with out being taken down by other drivers, sounds easy it is not. Burning Routes are effectively time trials across the city and traffic on the roads makes it very difficult to go anywhere fast without wrecking. You are also rewarded with nitrous for other things like driving down the oncoming lane or air time. The graphics are also really good with cars looking extra good and handling really well, even the 4x4s. There is no difficulty setting so as you win more events then the cars get more harder to beat and you then have to start looking for shortcuts. But this is where the game falls down, I never played online so I am just guessing from first player experience, as cars get more difficult you need to look for the shortcuts, down railways, through building yards etc, and now a fun game where you could just go round smashes cars suddenly need hardcore deddication to learn a lot of the shortcuts to be able to make it to the finish line. Aswell, races started in the city and while there were only 8 locations on the map that they could finish in, many times the finish was in the mountains, miles away from the next event that you wanted to do, so you would race to the mountains and then get bored or sidetracked on the way back. But other than that it is a very good game with gamerscore given out regularly and rewarding you if you put the effort in to the game.
However I do believe that after a few days the game does get very repetative with the same types of events even if they finish in different places. So, to sum up, a very good game to rent for 5 days, and some easy gamerscore to achieve but I would not recommend buying it simply because it gets very repetative and quite tedious after a few days play.