Then again, as a supporter of 60fps in racing games, I like it when they go the extra mile and pull it off. And yeah, Burnout 3 is still the best! It even looks really good on a HDTV with an Xbox and component cables!

Hopefully Paradise is more of a return to form than the demo you played let on though. Hopefully. I’m somewhat intrigued by NFS ProStreet, but just because of all the aspects of it that are not related to the actual gameplay (i.e. I don’t know if it’s a good game). They invented all these fictional events and organizations that are just slightly like real life…I like that. It’s also the first NFS since Porsche Unleashed to feature non-illegal racing. I almost felt like the developers were getting some social responsibility, but from what I heard it just ended up that way.

Also, best smoke of any racing game I’ve seen.

(see, I didn’t mention gameplay once!)

Don’t forget about the guy with the perfect falsetto singing Prince that turned on all the middle aged ladies at the bar. Or the weird businessman singing Nirvana.

Dude its like you re-enacted The Wizard there. Was a crowd all standing around in awe at how you found the warp wistle even though you had supposedly never played the game before.