It’s fair to say that Burnout Paradise was, on its original release, simultaneously very well received and rather controversial.

Few would deny that it is a quality game, and one packed with things to do both offline and online, but for some it also represented an early example of how open worlds were starting to make unwanted intrusions into all manner of different games.

That was in 2008. Ten years later, in 2018, Burnout Paradise Remastered was released on Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch. And six years after that, I picked up a Switch copy for a tenner. Seems like a prime opportunity to see how well this game has stood the test of time, non? Read on, and let’s see.