Yes the title reads Ultimate Box, get your chuckles out now, it isn’t that kind of article. Looks like Burnout is getting the box treatment, okay it does sound kind of funny, but seriously they are getting a new set that will include all the new DLC. Look to get your hands on it during the London Games Festival or in your home in February.
Official Press Release:
Redwood City, CA – October 31, 2008 – Criterion Games, an Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) studio announced today Burnout™ Paradise The Ultimate Box – a special edition release that includes the award-winning Burnout™ Paradise game plus the previously-released Burnout™ Paradise Cagney and Burnout™ Paradise Bikes content updates, and the brand new Burnout™ Paradise Party content. Burnout Paradise Party is an offline multiplayer mode designed to allow up to eight friends to “pass-the-pad” in dozens of Burnout challenges. For players that already own Burnout Paradise, Burnout Paradise Party will be sold separately as downloadable content.
We have told you all about the massive DLC coming to Burnout Paradise that boasts some new bikes, but couldn’t confirm the release date, but that has changed and you can now expect this monster load of content September 18th. If you don’t remember what this downloadable content will bring here it is:
- Pick from 2 motorcycles featuring male or female characters and start on a whole new progression to earn your Bike License.
- 38 new against-the-clock race events – Burning Ride and Midnight Ride.
- A brand new in-game 24 hr day / night cycle that impacts traffic density and available events. (It’s fully customisable – you can make it day/night/change the clock speed – it’s up to you.)
- Dynamic weather brings an all-new look to Paradise City
- And if that’s not enough, we’ve got 70 more Freeburn Challenges too
So get your internet connection up and ready because Thursday you should be downloading this bad boy. I wonder when the next set of content will come where you can work on your F15 license?
Check out an interview with some of the developers at Criterion for Burnout Paradise. The new free updates with bikes is coming and it should provide 10 hours of extra content. Shibby!
Yup you read that right, Burnout Paradise the entire game is coming to the PSN, not a mini game based from it or a segment, but the entire game including all the new content. An impressive feat just from the standpoint that they are taking a Blu Ray game and smooshing it into a downloadable format. (yes smooshing is a very technical term I know) So you can head on over to the Playstation Store and grab the downloadable version as well as the DLC this Autumn, which includes the bikes and new modes for $29.99. Curious what else we can expect to come to the PSN in a downloadable format? Perhaps some more EA titles? Sony is sending a message to the Xbox 360 and it’s inability to do things just like this.
You have to hand it to Criterion. They support the ever loving crap out of their games. Burnout Paradise is getting yet another free update (codename Davis). The new update brings motorcycles to the game. Good stuff!
We’ve got two rides ready to go – Day 1. Just head for your nearest junkyard in Paradise City to pick up the FV1100 street bike and the stunning Japanese Firehawk racing bike. That’ll do for a start, but there’s more in store once you’ve played a little way through the bike-specific gameplay.
The team is adding 70 challenges specially for bikes, 35 of the multi-part challenge variety. The new update is coming next month, but no specific dates have been revealed.
That’s right, you won’t have to start over in Burnout Paradise to earn those Trophies. Announced by Criterion, the game will get an update “soon” to add Trophy support. This will not be part of the upcoming Codename: Cagney update coming on July 10th. No word on an exact time for this new patch, but I’d expect shortly after Cagney.
The reason Burnout Paradise will be able to issue Trophies retroactively is because the game save is tied to your PSN ID. Unlike most PS3 titles, you can’t share game saves with Burnout, which is why Criterion is able to go back and check your save for what you’re accomplished. I wouldn’t expect this feature in many other games. Hopefully we start hearing about what games will get Trophies later this week. I’d love to see games like Uncharted, Heavenly Sword, Ratchet and Clank Future, and SingStar get Trophy support really soon.
The developers behind Burnout: Paradise have finally revealed the day their newest update will be available. As always, their updates are both free and full of cool new shit that will make you pop the game back into the console.
This is our 3rd and most ambitious software update yet! It will be available for free at 09:00am UK time on Thursday 10th July ‘08.
Free shit FTW. Here is a link to all the details for the update.
Selling 1 million copies is a big mark in video games, and Burnout Paradise has met that level. That’s pretty much a guaranteed sequel.
Whether you like the new changes in the game or not, selling 1 million copies is a great accomplishment for Criterion’s smash-em-up driver. This also brings the Burnout series to over 15 million copies sold over the lifetime of the product. That’s damn impressive right there.
Criterion is supporting Paradise well with a lot of upcoming DLC, a good portion of it being free. Personally, I’d still like to see a normal Crash Mode added back to the game. That’s the only fault I can find with it.
Good news for all you Burnout Paradise fans out there. The game has a HUGE patch coming soon to fix the bevy of problems that resulted when the game first came out. People were livid and emailed the developers over at EA for some resolution to these glaring issues. Their prayers have been answered. Here are the top 10 requests that needed fixing.
The Top 10 problems reported by you have been fixed, these are:
- PS3 game can crash when a player is taken down and the player that has performed the Takedown leaves the game.
- The game indefinitely displays “Connecting to Paradise City Servers” if it’s having problems pinging the rebroadcast server.
- Disconnecting the controller before a race begins can mean that race timings can be manipulated with players who didn’t cross the line first being awarded the win
- Repeatedly joining and leaving a game with 8 players can cause the game to hang.
- Hammering the A (360) or X (PS3) after unlocking a car can cause the game to hang.
- East Crawford and Watt St achievements can not be achieved if the player goes online and sets road rules before attempting them.
- Audio distortion when using 5.1 / DTS and looking rearwards.
- Enhanced 360 streaming performance stops instances where the game seems to pause for a second or so.
- Total time driven in player stats would stick at 145 hours
- VoIP connection problems with 8 player games.
Hit the jump for the rest of the details on the patch. We should have a release date for you as soon as they tell us.
Burnout Paradise is EA’s newest iteration of the old Burnout series and really moves away from the tried and true formula of Burnout to a more open world almost Need for Speed feel. Many loyal fans to the old Burnout games will quickly see the change in feel and game play and may be turned away from a solid driving game.
Presentation and Graphics: Burnout Paradise looks great, EA and Criterion really spent a long time perfecting the look of the cars and even more impressive are the wrecks. When you wreck your car in Burnout it opens up a cut scene so you can watch every bone crunching second of the crash and your mangled ride. The most annoying part of the wrecks is that you can’t turn this off so you are forced to watch these often, which gets a bit old fast. The other pet peeve I have about the look of this title is the lack of a driver in your car, so when you wreck your car and the doors fall off all you see is an empty car. 8 of 10 Read More »
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