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Electronic Arts is releasing the fifth version in the Burnout series called Burnout Paradise for Xbox 360 consoles. In this new Burnout, gone is the need to jump in and out of menus and aimlessly searching for fun like many open world games. Every intersection in Burnout Paradise is a potential crash junction and every alleyway is an opportunity to rack up moving violations. The game gives players license to wreak havoc in the ultimate seamless racing battleground called Paradise City, which include a massive infrastructure of traffic-heavy roads to abuse. Of course, rules are made to be broken, and when gamers enter Paradise City, they’re assigned a Drivers License that quickly begins to amass a record of player’s most aggressive, reckless and destructive exploits behind the wheel.

But it’s not the law that’s eyeing player’s progress…when gamers push things too hard they’ll be squaring off against the city’s most infamous burners, and these legends aren’t interested in who crosses the finish line first. “Burnout Paradise is a complete reinvention of the series, built from the ground up for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360,” said Alex Ward, director of game design at Criterion Games. “To create truly next-generation gameplay, we needed to create a truly next-generation game, from top to bottom.” Burnout Paradise also delivers the next level of speed and destruction, with brand new next-generation technology allowing gamers to literally rip their cars in half, in the most explosive pile-ups in the series’ history. Burnout Paradise will ship in January 2008 under the familiar powerhouse, Criterion Games.