Burnout Paradise (Steam, PC) Game Review

When the news that this game's online servers were going down in about a month came out, I figured I better enjoy it while I can, seeing as how I collect games faster than I ever have time to play them all.

I'm gonna get the ugly out of the way, because EA needs to be called out on this kind of crap: My steam copy of the game has basically been rendered unable to access any online features for unknown reasons. It fought with me about my old Ea account, it fought with me about making/using new EA accounts. It told me my disc code was already used. It told me the account I was trying to use "already has the maximum number so personas assigned to it". I spent a while on the phone with a nice lady from tech support but she wasn't able to help. She recommended I see if Steam Support can get me a new game key, but every link I followed said I can't.

So, effectively, thanks To Ea implementing shitty DRM into a game to punish the people who actually paid for it (on top of that fact that most Steam games are DRM-locked by nature), I have a game that is missing part of the gameplay experience it promised me. and that's really uncool.

But the game itself? It's actually quite fun once you get the hang of it. I stumbled quite a bit at first - I couldn't figure out to even access the options menu, or start my car, begin an event, or exit the game (!) BUT once I got all that ironed out, I was *bill cosby voice* doin all the zippin and the boppin and smashing up all the cars zip zob zibbity zop and having quite a good time! It's a bit repetitive in gameplay, but it's often so exciting and action-packed that I don't mind.

Still, I can't recommend the game on *this* format, because I don't like to make excuses for crAAApy companies like EA treating their player base poorly. I'd recommend picking up a used physical copy somewhere, so EA can't rip you off and take your money like they did to me (though, for all I know, they do that on the old console versions, too!).

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