When comparing Burnout Paradise vs Carmageddon: Reincarnation, the Slant community recommends Burnout Paradise for most people. In the question“What are the best PC arcade racing games?” Burnout Paradise is ranked 2nd while Carmageddon: Reincarnation is ranked 8th. The most important reason people chose Burnout Paradise is:
The game has about 75 cars available in 3 different categories that can be unlocked by progressing through the game.
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Pros
Pro A huge selection of cars
The game has about 75 cars available in 3 different categories that can be unlocked by progressing through the game.
Pro Great speed in a huge open world.
Pro Easy to sink hours into
Every road and intersection is potentially an event to complete.
Pro The most entertaining open world racing game
Paradise City is full of iconic places, and this makes it easier to roam because it's easier to remember them.
Pro Great damage mechanics
It's possible to thoroughly damage and destroy each vehicle in the game. And the game highly encourages such behaviour with one of the more commonly achieved winning conditions being to destroy the competition.
Pro Public beta released
As of February 14th 2015 the public beta has been released for Carmageddon: Reincarnation. This includes all cars, levels and multiplayer, the full game.
Cons
Con Starting and loading the game takes time
Con No circuit based events
Most races are point to point straight line races which lessens the challenge in an open world.
Con Reseting failed races takes time
There's actually an option in menu to restart current event.
Con Not a proper Burnout successor
The game is entirely based on the city and the open world and revolves everything around these two things plus collecting scores. The events seem less interesting and undertoned as well as slightly repetitive. Appears as a spin-off more than belonging to the main series, even in the title Paradise is written bigger than Burnout.
Con No car tuning, only color changes
Con In early access
The game is currently in pre-alpha development stage and as such is poorly optimized, buggy and unstable.