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That last one is a haven for trick lovers, with interweaving routes and massive jumps around which you can chase the highest of high scores. That means you get motorbikes, cops vs robbers, day/night transition effects and the even more ambitiously-designed Big Surf Island. This particular lion didn’t care for the ‘unlock everything’ DLC, but you get literally everything else.

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It also gives you the lion’s share of its DLC content too, some of which was offered as a free update, while others were paid-for, premium content. This Remastered package doesn’t just give you that breakthrough original game, though. It still feels like a Burnout game and that’s to be applauded. The game succeeds in all of these ways and while it isn’t as ‘pure’ as Burnout 3, it’s still far simpler in its format than more modern open-world racers. The car’s indicators flash to show you which way you should turn next in a race, which can be ignored entirely if you (think) you know better. You can choose whatever route you like to the finish, challenge someone by stopping at traffic lights and revving your engine, explore back alleyways for bonuses, and takedown rival cars to pick up their broken rides at the junkyard. The potential of an open world racing game was still untapped in 2008 and you can imagine the exciting brainstorming session Criterion had. Ignore the traffic lights, and ignore the rules – this game actually rewards you for driving on the wrong side of the road, filling your boost bar to encourage you to go even faster. Instead, you have an entire city and surrounding hills through which you must hurtle at breakneck velocity. Unlike traditional Burnout games (which haven’t appeared on Switch at all so don’t worry if you don’t know them), the road here is not just a narrow ribbon down which you hurtle at breakneck velocity. And if you crash? Well, that’s cool too you’re treated to still the finest crumple damage in gaming. The premise of the game is simple: Drive as fast as you can, smashing enemies off the road and generally having a riot of a time. It’s definitely best played that way, which will please Switch Lite owners immensely. In handheld mode there are some hints of sub-60fps action in busy scenes but it’s still riotously fast and arguably better-looking thanks to the smaller display making everything look mega-detailed.

In docked mode, you get 60fps but not a particularly convincing resolution, as there are jagged edges everywhere, which are really exacerbated if you’re playing on a 4K display. In fact, play it in handheld mode and you’re actually enjoying the same resolution and frame-rate of the Xbox 360 game all those years ago.

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This is Burnout Paradise Remastered on Nintendo Switch but the ‘Remastered’ moniker is a little optimistic on Nintendo’s machine, at least compared to the game running on, say, Xbox Series X. And while things have moved on since 2008 in some respects, a little bit of spit and polish has meant that this game is still showing the competition how it’s done. Burnout Paradise represents the pinnacle of 2000s-era game design, where ludicrous speed was king and damage modelling used bleeding-edge technology to make jaws drop and eyes widen. The grass is green and the girls are… well, there aren’t any.