
Burnout has built a reputation over the past six years as one of the fastest, most explosive racing games around. On Thursday, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 owners will be able to get a glimpse of the future of the series.
At midnight on Thursday morning, EA will be putting up a playable demo for Burnout Paradise on both the PlayStation Store and the Xbox Live Marketplace.
The demo will allow players to poke around the game, to get a feel for the new open-world approach developer Criterion has taken to the game.

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I played through the remaster quite recently. It's not as good as I remember, but I think a lot of that is because the "open world" thing was still pretty fresh back then.
I do think there's a gap in the market for a game like Burnout. With the new gen they could really make car damage a huge selling point again.
Burnout paradise remastered and original are my favorite, i got the platinum trophy for both games the nighthawk is my favorite car
Personally don't give a shit for open world racers. Give me a new Motorstorm, Split second, Outrun.

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I think the crash mode should comeback. Tryng to make the most damage was very cool.
Burnout 2 should be above 3 imo. The aftertouch takedown mechanic slowed down the gameplay too much in 3.
I love Takedown, Revenge, and Paradise. Dominator was okay, but it clearly felt like a B-tier game.
After playing those awesome games, I went back to try out part 1 and it was rough. I didn't like the controls (whereas the others felt perfect to me), the elevator music was generic and not enjoyable to listen to.
Finally the game's difficulty was extremely high. I could beat all single player races in Takedown, Revenge, Paradise, Dominator, but could not get first place in the very first race for the first Burnout game. It demands perfection and one slight mistake is all it takes to lose. I have yet to play part 2, but I'm hoping it's more like part 3 than part 1.
Burnout Takedown is my favorite racing game of all time. My wife was addicted to crash mode.
but I'm really eager to give Paradise a go
I didn't know the demo was coming out tomorrow.
Edit: WTF why did I get a disagree ?
in what time zone?
Hopefully, they've done a better job than they did with Revenge.
That was the only Burnout I did not enjoy.
According to Criterion website, only 4 hours left. that means midnight here in UK. So we get it first?