Features :
- Explore Paradise - From big-surf beach, to downtown gridlock, there's over 30 square kilometers of the ultimate driving playground to explore from the get-go. Nothing is blocked off.
- Burnout Your Way - Just pull up to over 120 stoplights and spin your wheels to start one of five different events - the classic Race, Road Rage and Burning Route, and the all-new Stunt Run and Marked Man games.
- Instant Online - Burnout Paradise sets the new standard in online social gameplay. See your friends online with the EasyDrive Friends List and connect with them instantly without having to wait or exit your game.
- Team up or Takedown - Join forces with up to seven of your buddies to beat hundreds of online FreeBurn Challenges together or heat up the competition and go head-to-head in user created race routes.
- Road Rules - Make and break the rules of each road by setting speed and destruction records all over town. Track how many you own against your friends!
- Speed, Speed and Even More Speed - The rebuilt, race-tuned Burnout game engine delivers intense speed boost gameplay at a super-smooth and super-fast 60 frames-per-second.
- Showtime: Crash Anywhere, Any Time - Feel like bringing chaos to the streets of Paradise? Send your car wrecking, spinning and scraping down the road, smashing through traffic and leaving a trail of expensive wreckage in your wake.
- Crash Deformation - Burnout Paradise features an all-new deformation technology that gives players an astounding close-up and slow-motion view of super-real destruction.
- Cars - Muscle cars, exotics, hot rods and even supercharged SUVs, engineered to look beautiful whether they're brand new or mashed into scrap. Choose from stunt, speed or aggression car classes, each built with their own unique boost ability to give you the upper hand for specific challenges. Shut down roaming rivals and rack up wins on your license to strut the streets in a wide selection of unique rides.
- Take it Aerial - Go airborne and pull boost-earning barrel rolls and spectacular mid-air spins. Find the hidden jumps to reach secret rooftop routes and 120 smashable Burnout Billboards.
- Driver's License - Start with a Learner's Permit then rack up wins to progress all the way up to a Burnout Elite Driver's License -the ultimate accolade for any safety-unconscious motorist.
- Burnout Paradise Party brings the social fun of Burnout Paradise into an offline environment where friends can pass the pad to play competitively. There are dozens of quick-fire, turn-based challenges where players compete in different stunt, speed and skill events.
- Features a new restart option added for racing.
- Easier control of the early vehicles.
- Packs in the Burnout Paradise Cagney and Burnout Paradise Bikes content updates

Minimum hardware requirements:
Operating system: Windows XP [SP2] / Vista
Processor: XP: 2.8GHZ or faster. Vista: 3.2GHz or faster
Memory: XP: 1GB Ram, Vista, 1.5 GB Ram
Hard Disk: 4GB
DVD drive: x8
Graphics Card: 128MB with support Pixel shader 3.0 (Geforce 6600/Radeon X1300 or better)
Sound card: compatible with Direct X 9.0c
The game network - 512kbs or faster connection (2-8 players)