Navigation – Burnout Paradise
No game captured the sense of speed while retaining excellent car control as well as the Burnout Series. Burnout Revenge was a complete walk in the park, with its traffic-checking that let you cruise at top speeds without bothering about ramming into traffic. To make the game a little harder this time, Burnout Paradise doesn’t allow you to check traffic. Now I admit that I’m a little spoiled by Burnout Revenge, but I don’t hate Paradise for being more challenging.
What ticks me off is the horrendous navigation system. Paradise is a sort of free-roaming game where you have access to the entire Paradise City, where it’s really easy to get lost. To help you navigate, the game shows you extremely small blinking icons on the top of the screen every time you have to turn. Now wasn’t it enough that they’d made you dodge traffic at top speeds? The fact that you have to focus on the top edge of the screen to look for those subtle turn indicators, takes the difficulty to stupendous levels – since you can't dodge traffic, drive at breakneck speeds, AND navigate at the same time! This one broken system has pretty much killed the game for me, at least where racing is concerned.
Burnout Paradise should have had a GPS system like GTA IV (with the shortest legal route) to the destination - lack of such a system is really pissing off in the races - to the Observatory in particular. 
