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Videogames

Burnout Paradise
PS3, Xbox 360
Burnout Paradise is the perfect game to play after a long day at work. All of your frustrations will be forgotten within a few moments of booting up your console and plowing through 12 cars at a busy intersection in the fictional Paradise City. If you haven’t played it, the basic concept of the Burnout series is to race through various courses and paths throughout the city, and/or to destroy your opponents. In this newest edition of the franchise, your goals are spread out through the spacious and beautiful seaside town known as Paradise City.
You can choose from events such as races, stunt runs, and ‘marked man’ in which your goal is to cross the city and make it to a specified point on the map without your car getting destroyed. The gameplay is fast and furious, and the crashes that happen in the game are nothing short of spectacular, with cars crumpling and smashing in surprisingly realistic form.
If you don’t feel like racing in specific events, Burnout Paradise allows you the freedom of roaming through your city, crashing, speeding and flipping your car off various off ramps, vehicles and curb cuts at your will. With plenty of road and lots of exciting jumps scattered throughout the map, Burnout Paradise gives you plenty to do.

Devil May Cry 4
PS3, Xbox 360
Devil May Cry 4 is the newest installment of the DMC series, thankfully designed by the team responsible for the first game, which was amazingly well received. With stylish gun-slinging action and demon slashing swordplay, you’d be hard-pressed to find a more bad ass collection of characters on next-gen consoles. While the PS3 version of the game requires a 5gb install of the game, which takes about 20 minutes to complete, both versions seem to run well without a hitch. If you are looking for all-new gameplay and innovative improvements from the previous games, you may be let down, but even so, Devil May Cry 4 is great to play.