The demo kind of turned me off from actually buying the game, but then i read reviews and fan comments.Overall pretty good and then someone on the IGN boards was talking about how fun it was to play. Sure enough i had enough store credit to get the game at BlockBuster and bought it. I will admit i too don't like the traffic light to play event open world setup, but by gawd this city is huge. I was playing online with a friend today doing some of the Challenges and i was seeing parts of the map i didn't know existed from my 2 days of playing. I kind of miss the races that had a pretty good set track to race on but i tend to think i will love this new setup once i know more and more of the Paradise City itself. Also the big thing that almost kept me from buying the game was the lack of a Crash mode challenge. Now you can activate it really anywhere in the Showtime mode and the crashing is fun as hell. I kind of miss the exploding car from Revenge but aiming your bouncing wreck around for 1000s of yards into cars and buses (no tankers
)is pretty damn fun too. Hopefully i will be seeing some of you guys online soon so we can take on a few of the 350 challenges the game offers. That doesn't include setting up a race, revenge, and showtime event between everyone.
So as a fan of the series since Burnout 3. I will once again say that don't let the demo scare you away from this game. As they have a ton of shit to offer you to do offline and online.