Cheapest Burnout Paradise

Do you like frustrating achievements that are tough to get, even after 40 hours of play?
Do you like missing features from Burnout predecessors? (like Crash mode, crash after effects, etc)
Do you like poorly designed navigation systems on open world racing games which forces you to be lost and out of the race?
Do you like driving slowly in traffic and running into parked cars because you were busy looking at the map?
Do you like typos in your games? (check the achievement list and look for the word "licence")
Well, get ready to get frustrated because you will experience all of the above when you play Burnout Paradise.

First off, I have lost all confidence in professional game reviewers. Either they didn't play Burnout Paradise and reviewed it based on the press release notes, OR, their company gets advertising dollars from EA and don't dare to write an honest review about EA games. Well, I paid $40 on a gold box deal shortly after the game came out and just recently got around to play with my backlog. This game is worth $5. The professional reviewers gets their games for free. There is a lack of professional responsibility on their part when consumer purchase decisions are based on their reviews, hence most of them no longer have any credibility with me. 8/10 for this game is a mistake.

If the developers wanted to copy games with open world maps, that's right, I said COPY. At least have the common sense to copy the navigation system to something like Crazy Taxi. The big yellow arrow helped a lot in Crazy Taxi. Instead, Criterion decided to put street names, really?!, driving at say 75mph. Of course the AI drivers are not going to get off course, the only racer getting lost all the time here is me. Get ready to restart a lot of races. Just check online, no one plays race mode because of this. The traffic and parked cars in Paradise City is tough because half the time you are looking at the map to make sure you are going the right way. The crash scenes are repetitive and will add to your frustration as you watch it for the one thousandth time.

What's up with the missing features from previous burnout games? It's like buying a car without a spare tire, not what you expect until you look in the trunk. What's up with the achievement for parking a car?! That's not fun. What's up with having to drive all the way across the map to start a race I want to race in? There should be an option to pick from a list, let me decide if I want to drive there or use a list feature. Burnout Paradise left a bad taste in my mouth, especially on how hard the achievement were. Find all 200 billboard signs; Park your car, in a special way; Win these races and get to license A, etc; My goal was to get 500 achievement points and I got about 200 from 40 hours of play. Vote with your money, I doubt I will buy another buggy EA game.Get more detail about Burnout Paradise.