Burnout Paradise was a superb arcade racing game with a so-so soundtrack and one completely accursed characteristic – DJ Atomika. John vociferously lamented the continued existence the DJ in his review of the recent remastered re-release. While the remaster didn’t change an excessive amount of (although it did embody some previously console-exclusive DLC), this revised model is now the one solution to play, because of this beautiful little mod, posted on Reddit by user “burninrubber0”, the DJ Atomika Disabler does simply what it says on the tin, and it’s even multiplayer suitable.
Sadly, Burnout Paradise will nonetheless open each time to Paradise City by Guns ‘ N Roses, even with the mod, but it’s a tiny irritation in comparison with the spectre that previously haunted the roads. All you’ve obtained to hearken to now’s the growl of your engine, the screeching sound of sheared metal and the remarkably pop-filled assortment of music within the game. There are just a few locations the place Atomika can’t be totally eliminated, such because the intro and through some Freeburn on-line challenges, however virtually all of his most annoyingly repetitive strains are gone.
Now that he’s (largely) silent, what surprises me is that DJ Atomika wasn’t only a one-off blunder by EA, however was meant to be a part of their model id. The man was driving folks up the wall by most of EA’s SSX sequence of snowboarding games. Perhaps his transfer to Paradise City was an act of exile? After all, not one of the vehicles within the game seem to have drivers. Is this a no-mans-land, populated by rogue self-driving autos? Is DJ Atomika in a lonely recording sales space someplace, making an attempt to persuade these rampaging machines to self-destruct? If so, then he has failed. Good.
You can seize the Atomika-be-gone mod here on Reddit. Burnout Paradise Remastered is exclusive to Origin for £18/$20, and was additionally simply added to the £4/$5 month-to-month Origin Access Basic subscription. There’s a week-long free trial for that too.
