Burnout Paradise Remastered has actually been cleaned up more than initial impressions may lead you to believe, as Digital Foundry has gone to town with the re-release in its latest comparison video. While the footage focuses primarily on the Xbox One X edition, you can expect many of these improvements to scale to the PlayStation 4 Pro at least.
While many had expected a lowly port, the tech site points to dozens of different improvements, including cleaned up textures, reworked assets, enhanced anti-aliasing, and even better shadow filtering. With all of the techno mumbo jumbo out of the way, the bottom line is that this is the best way to play a classic game. We still think it’s a shade too expensive, mind.
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Still seems a tad expensive for £35.
@Bread-Not-Toast Yeah agreed. If it was £25 it would be a no-brainer. A shame.
It might just be that I haven’t played the original in years but to me it still looks like a straight PS3 game, on modern hardware. I’m just not impressed by the graphics. The car models in particular just don’t hold up.
Of course if it were cheaper my expectations would be different. This costs the same as the new Shadow of the Colossus. That’s the new bar at that price point.
@glassmusic The difference there is that this is a remaster, not a remake, but I understand what you're saying. It's definitely a touch expensive.
I have a feeling this will drop in price by the time I get around to playing it again so I'll just wait for that. Great game!!!
I managed to get a £10 off voucher from eBay and got it for£23 , I think that's about right wouldn't have bought until price drop otherwise even though it a great game..just a little too steep at rrp
It still looks like a Port with the settings turned up to Max and of course the increase output resolution. Its clearly better than the PC version built 10yrs ago so they have obviously improved the Ambient Occlusion method and been able to turn up the Partical/smoke effects - even improve the Shadow render draw distance.
I know DF mentioned the difference in file size - more than 'double' but I wonder how much of that was taken up by the DLC - all those extra vehicles and Surf Island.
It will be interesting to see how well the 'Pro' holds up as the Xbox version beat the RX580/GTX1060 PC performance as well as out performing it visually BUT of course that was the 'OLD' Burnout so maybe their is more work to the engine that reduces the processing cost whilst delivering better results?
I paid £26.20 for mine - It was £28.95 at the GameCollection and I used some points to bring the price down a bit more.
I know people are complaining at the price but a 'good game' is still a good game and, as I hear from some PS fanboys now the X is out, graphics aren't that important. I can't think of any game like this and there is a LOT of game-play and fun to be had here. I do agree that £35 is a lot for a 10yr old game with all the DLC - especially as Xbox owners can play it on Backwards Compatibility (I know that doesn't help PS4 gamers) but it can still provide a LOT of fun - more than some full price AAA games...
... unless they did the whole "shadow of the colossus" remake - it was always going to look old.. it's a decade old! Racing games age particularly badly too (as so much is focused on speed / visuals) - I remember LOVING split/second when it came out (and being impressed by visuals) - it's free on XBG this month and it's aged REALLY badly... rose-tinted glasses remember!
GRRR I wanted BurnOut 3 :-/ The 2 player split-screen mode was MEGA-FUN Oh well.
Why do I have this feeling that this game is not going to do great saleswise despite EA staying true to the original?
P.S: Not trying to start anything, I just for some reason can't shake this feeling.
@glassmusic it actually costs more than SOTC.
Wow...sorry but Need for Speed: Most Wanted on my Wii U looks better than this judging by that video.....
@viciousarcanum Might be different across the pond? In the States they're both $40.
@Quintumply True on the format, remake vs remaster. But either way the prices are the same and the amount of effort put into each is not :/
It's still got EA on the box.
I hope they tied those darn barricades together this time.
@get2sammyb physical copies are £30
Does anyone know what the PS4 Pro resolution is? Doesn't look 4K to me.
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