Burnout™ Paradise Remastered

If you're thinking about buying this game, forget it! the game won't even load, it crashes when you just try to load into the game, it's unplayable.

Like the others, I can't even play the game because it crashes after the intro video.

This game should legit be pulled from steam until everything is fixed. Even ignoring the launcher the game won't start for most people. I have no idea why its allowed to stay up, a game where even 40% of the users can't even get to the options without mods SHOULD be pulled.

It's a cool game, but the developers and publisher didn't take care of it, the game constantly crashes, for some people it simply doesn't launch, to fix this you will need to look for guides on the Internet, then you can play it without crashes: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2260785713, a link to the guide that helped me

Leaving a review mainly for steam deck compatibility. I just bought the remastered version on sale today and was able to get it running on steam deck without any extra steps. Just download and go. Game runs great on the deck. Please note that my steam account was already linked to my ea account prior to launching the game. I already had the ultimate box edition. I got the remastered version for surf island which I'm happy to try out for the first time. I couldn't really see that much of a graphical difference between the versions though. This is still one of the best racing games I've ever played. It's a little lacking in terms of QoL compared to modern racing games, but it more than makes up for it with the truly unique gameplay. The soundtrack is just perfect too.

I spent over an hour trying to get this game to work on a modern laptop with an Intel CPU and integrated graphics. The game constantly freezes on startup or ends up on a black screen during the introduction video. I tried every community fix available: disabling the webcam, changing config files to windowed/borderless mode, turning off graphical effects, and messing with the game files. Nothing worked. The developers completely abandoned this game and left it in a broken state. Broken games that require hours of troubleshooting just to see the main menu have no business being sold on Steam. Until they fix it for everyone, save your money and stay away. Refunded.

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I just wanted to throw my hat into the ring and say that the game has been perfectly functional on both my Arch Linux PC and Steam Deck. Not really any issues at all honestly, unless you consider needing the EA App installed at all an issue in and of itself lol. As for the game itself, it's Burnout, its a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ classic.

If only EA cared about this game more it wouldve been a much better experience, but if you get by the fact of having to get 3 different programs to just get into the game then youre in for a blast

edit (7/8/2026) DO NOT FORGET!!!! to turn off the games access to your camera in settings a windows update turned mine back on Also also if you can figure out how to run the game in offline mode it might skip the (connecting to servers crash) that seems to happen -start the game then go into task bar and close EA app (if that doesn't work go into task manager and force close everything EA related 'EAdesktop.exe, EA background service and a bunch of the ea's that pop up. tab back to the game till it tells you it couldn't connect to the server) !!as a note just closing the app from the taskbar should work!! (old review) Fixed it? maybe? HAY YALL -went into config and set it to windows=2 (which is borderless windows i believe) and just as a note i made vsync=0 -I set compatibility to win 7/8 and set to run as admin for both .exe files -turned off Overlays (Steam and EA) make sure to turn off BOTH and the BIGGEST one that seems to have fixed the issue. PURGE YOUR EA FRIENDS LIST OF ANY ACCOUNTS with a bunch of numbers and letters or just numbers (generally indicative of an account that was deleted or deactivated) GAME is running FINEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE now~ BURN THEM TIRES my friends!~ see you on the streets