With the addition of stupid ideas such as trafic checking, the game changed from fast paced racing with big crashes to focusing on the crashes and leaving the racing to pretty much second place. Similarly, the changes to the crash modes and multiplayer game types made it clear that the games focus was on the crashes and explosions, rather than the racing. Also, on a personal level, I thought the music was absolutely terrible and definitely the game where it became obvious that the soundtrack was put together by a marketing team rather than the songs being picked to fit with the game.

i think paradise is worse

I thought it was the best then 3 was second.

YES, I bought this for 20 bucks and regretted it. Paradise is horrible too.

"i think paradise is worse
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paradise is the worst in the series

How the hell is Paradise the worst?  That game is amazing.

Paradise isn't my thing. Free roaming in a car just doesn't do it for me. I do get why other people like it though.

I like Revenge because its strait up carnage. The achievements are an absolute joke though. Far too hard.

"I thought it was the best then 3 was second.
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Honestly the best Burnout for me was Burnout 3: Takedown.
Me and my friends used to have so much fun playing party crash. (Still do sometimes.)
Burnout Revenge kind of lost what made takedown so fun, and I just hate Burnout: Paradise City. They should've just called it Burnout: Need for Speed.

I've not played Paradise, but of the other versions I feel that the traffic checking made Revenge the worst. It just made you lose the feeling of being able to crash at any time on either side of the road. Takedown is my personal fave.

Yea, but the game wasnt bad at all though

The first one was the worst.

Road Rage in Revenge is craploads of fun!

Hmm. I will say Paradise is. I just think that is the most frustrating title of the series.

"The achievements are an absolute joke though. Far too hard.
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There's just something about the Burnout franchise that gets to me. I've sunk more than 150 hours into Paradise, and Revenge feels like its arcade counterpart. I actually like the Traffic Attack events, if you get enough of a combo going, it starts to feel like some kind of crazy pinball game. Love it.

Paradise sucked other than online challenges, and the road rage events. The races and other stuff was just stupid and irratating. 

I haven't played them all to call it the worst, but man... one thing that killed me... Burnout 3 is notorious for having like the worst licensed soundtrack ever. So what does EA do for the next game? Make a worse soundtrack. Good job, EA. Technically, I'd say the soundtrack is slightly better overall, except it doesn't have a single song that I found to be worth listening to. Therefore, I prefer Burnout 3's, because then I could at least just turn off all the bad ones and listen to the couple good ones over and over.

Paradise really went into an entirely different direction, and I miss the old style. But  I still really liked Paradise.

I liked Revenge.

But, it was my first Burnout game, so I don't really have a say.

I really like it. Then again, this is my first game in the series.

I like it alot too and it came free with my 360 back in the day when i got it :)

Burnout Revenge was the only one I've bought.  Maybe I would've had higher expectations if I played the earlier ones, but I had a lot of fun.

I really liked Revenge, though not as much as Takedown. But yeah, the soundtrack was terrible, even worse than Takedown's.

I thought the first Burnout was easily the weakest, though I didn't enjoy the Paradise demo too much. I'm looking to check it out at a budget price eventually

It's such a hard call for me. I hated the open-endedness of Paradise (trying to read and navigate by street signs with an SDTV didn't help matters), yet it's hard to hate on a game that has released so much extra (and free) content after its release.  I still think Takedown is the highlight of the series, although Revenge is pretty good.