But even I struggled with the second and third entries in that series a series which probably owes a lot to Test Drive Unlimited. Of course, the Forza Horizon series bucks this trend by easily being the benchmark for open-world driving games. The same goes for Need for Speed Underground 2 vastly inferior to the first Underground game. Whilst it was never going to compare to the likes of Takedown – though few games ever will – Paradise just took all the fun out of the Burnout series for me, and I put that down to the transition to open-world. I’ll be honest, I do have a slight prejudice towards open-world driving games: Burnout Paradise never captured my heart.
