Stunt Runs

There are 14 Stunt Runs in Paradise City.

In Stunt Runs your goal is to beat a given point score, which starts out low, but soon climbs to the hundreds of thousands. It may seem staggering at first, but you'll be linking together stunts and gaining so many multipliers that you'll be scoring in the millions in no time. So what's the secret to stunts? A map of all the Billboards and Super Jumps in Paradise city! Check out the Secrets section for just such a collection of maps.

Each Super Jump you land and Billboard you smash ups your multiplier by one or sometimes two digits, so linking them together is an easy way to get your score soaring. Additionally, Super Jumps, and occasionally ramps leading to Boards are great places to perform Flatspins and get Big Air, which give you even more score multipliers. Don't try for Barrel Rolls; they are just too risky.

Between stunts, you'll need to keep your combo meter going—it's represented by a circle at the top-center of your HUD. The easiest way to keep your chain going is by boosting or doing e-brake turns. Only use Stunt Cars for Stunt Runs, as Speed Cars don't have a boost-anytime option and allow you to build up boost with e-brake turns. Aggression Cars are too heavy to land long jumps. When you cruise around looking for the next big stunt, don't go at max speed, just tap the boost button avoid crashing, as that will end your chain. If you repeat a stunt in a chain, you'll fail the stunt. The chain won't end, but you won't get any points or multipliers.

Once you become familiar with the less risky nearby stunts at any given Stunt Run, you'll be able to ignore the time limits entirely, for as long as you keep up the stunt meter, your final stunt run will never end. We were able to make it to our favorite stunt location (the area around Super Jump 9 in Harbor Town) from even the furthest Stunt Runs.