When comparing Driver: San Francisco vs Burnout Paradise, 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 Driver: San Francisco is ranked 10th. 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 Ability to switch between cars while driving creates interesting gameplay opportunities
The game's protagonist can Shift (teleport) between cars by possessing drivers driving them. This ability can be used creatively to avoid obstacles, getting closer to a goal or just to listen in on conversations.
Pro Good story
The game's story consists of multiple twists throughout, interesting characters in the form of a buddy-cop movie duo Tanner and Jones and their antagonist Jericho as well as a well executed thriller style presentation.
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.
Cons
Con Car's handling can be challenging
The cars can be difficult to handle as it's easy to make them drift out of control while avoiding incoming traffic.
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.