New islands coming to Burnout Paradise as free DLC

31 Comments by Scott Jon Siegel Mar 14th 2008 11:10AM
Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, Driving

Talk of new downloadable content for Burnout Paradise has been burbling around the Criterion Games website. On the forums, creative director Alex Ward has revealed that new cars will be made available as downloadable content in both the Xbox 360 and PS3 version. More exciting, though, is news of the expansion of Paradise City, with the introduction of several islands to the map. Perhaps even more exciting, however, is news that the islands will be offered as a free update to the game.

Details are still scarce at this point, but Alex Ward states that bridges from the main section of Paradise City will lead out to the new islands, each of which will offer "a different type of gameplay." Whether this means that islands will depart from the open-ended style of Paradise, or whether the terrain of each will be suited to certain play styles remains to be seen. The islands themselves will be offered as free, mandatory software updates, while the new cars will be sold via the traditional microtransaction system.

Tags: burnout, burnout-paradise, burnoutparadise, criterion, criterion-games, dlc

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Poisoned Al: Mar 14th 2008; 11:23AM

Hopefully the airport that "sunk into the sea" will make an appearance, and I'm all for new modes, online and off.

As for the cars, I probably will buy them. I busted a gut to get all the other cars (%101 complete), so not doing so would make it feel unfinished.

why not the LS2LS7?: Mar 14th 2008; 11:29AM

Is the airport in the sea mentioned by Atomica or something?

Poisoned Al: Mar 14th 2008; 11:35AM

Yeah it was. Also it was on early maps of Paradise city while the game was being produced.

Platinum_Skeet: Mar 14th 2008; 12:20PM

Yeah I guess the DLC is what was originally suppose to be in the game... link below...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xihvan3qoCM

why not the LS2LS7?: Mar 14th 2008; 12:28PM

Platinum!

You've ruined it for me. I loved B:P, but now I just see that movie and realize they stripped out a lot of interesting-looking city area!

Platinum_Skeet: Mar 14th 2008; 12:38PM

Yeah my bad... You can tell they left all the original content in the game because you can still see the islands. I just don't think criterion had enough time to polish it so they pushed it into DLC...

Platinum_Skeet: Mar 14th 2008; 12:39PM

Oh yeah and the Airport off to the right does look pretty sweet...

Demaar: Mar 14th 2008; 9:22PM

Any money the free DLC gets you the islands, but you gotta fork out cash for the events on those islands. As Platinum_Skeet says, this was clearly meant to be on the disc. EA's screwing us in the arse.

FetaBoy: Mar 14th 2008; 11:30AM

Perhaps you'll need to buy the new card to get to the fun parts of the new islands.

FetaBoy: Mar 14th 2008; 11:32AM

Meant to write 'cars' not 'card'.

why not the LS2LS7?: Mar 14th 2008; 11:33AM

If you watched the video a couple days back of the dune buggy on the new bridge, it appeared there was a new kind of ramp too. If you listen to the podcast, they seem enamored of a type of trick they call the "rodeo". Like a snowboarding rodeo, it includes a twist (roll) and a flip. You can already do these with some difficulty off some jumps in the city.

But the new ramp style seems designed to make doing rodeos about as easy as doing rolls off the roll (half-kicker) ramps.

So that'd be fun too. Of course, fans of the Vegas (big Cadillac) and Mesquite (El Camino) may find the new ramps tough to take full advantage of.

aaron_k7: Mar 14th 2008; 11:38AM

I want some DLC that allows split-screen multiplayer.

License to ill: Mar 14th 2008; 11:49AM

Cool now I'll have a reason to play it again, never finished I'm at 70%...

J: Mar 14th 2008; 11:59AM

Crash-mode Island, please.

PojoMofo: Mar 14th 2008; 12:01PM

OK quwation guys, I dont like racing games because of all the gearhead stuff and the "perfecting the line" stuff. But I love open-ended sandnox gameplay. Would I like this game?? I guess I could always rent it.

Bootes: Mar 14th 2008; 12:09PM

There's a demo for both the PS3 and 360...

creid: Mar 14th 2008; 1:14PM

I hate racing games, but I like Burnout. I think you'll like it.

Dale: Mar 14th 2008; 1:34PM

It's the best game I've played in the series by a long shot. Having only played the later titles (3: Takedown, Revenge, Legends) I am not a Burnout purist by any means, but it's a solid experience and well worth the dollars.

El Capitaine: Mar 24th 2008; 1:02AM

yes you will.

Burnout is EXTEREMELY different from 'Driving Simulators' like Project Gotham Racing, Forza, and Gran Turismo.

Those require you to upgrade cards, tune them, and drave on that perfect line to be good.

In Burnout, you're just cruising around the city. Oncoming or not...who cares. Each car has 1 'burning route' or a time trial, that can only be done by that car. Each car has its own burning route, and completing these gives you the upgraded version of the car. (A new car, not an upgrade to your old one. Also, each burning route can only be done once, since each car only has one upgraded version)

Also, for races and other events, your free to forge your own path. Since your in a city, I can choose to either go directly through the side roads or head up onto the interstate (which isnt that big, though)

To get new cars, you simply complete events, and after you do a certain amount the car will start cruising around the city. To get the car, you find it while your freeburning (not in an event) and you crash it.

This is VERY different from other racing games. It is definitely my favorite of the burnout series, and my favorite racing game as of yet.

saky: Mar 14th 2008; 12:02PM

This is totally off topic, but I need it desperately. Does anybody remember the name of that tiny ga,e were you walk a pixelated guy through his entire life in five minutes

Zachary Hinchliffe: Mar 14th 2008; 12:08PM

yep, it's called Passage.

why not the LS2LS7?: Mar 14th 2008; 12:30PM

The game you're thinking of is called Super Mario Brothers. It was released by Nintendo some time back. It actually has an alternate ending where you defect a big spiky bear-creature at the end with a magic double-bladed axe.

CB: Mar 14th 2008; 1:32PM

actually it's not just a spiked bear creature, it's manbearpig.

FoxHoundADAM: Mar 14th 2008; 12:37PM

I just go BP last week so this is great news!

Organic_Shadow: Mar 14th 2008; 12:38PM

Hopefully he's hinting at new game modes- possibly returning modes from past titles. Would be weird if it was exclusive to the island though... unless each island had it's own exclusive game mode, which would be kind of cool because to "select" the game mode you just go to that area.

Deck: Mar 14th 2008; 1:06PM

Free DLC!? What a day! I always like to hear about free DLC!

I haven't picked up BP yet but this may just make me go do it!

deaftly (Brawl - 1075-0467-4222): Mar 14th 2008; 1:13PM

Wishful thinking but I want a damn crash mode addon, I would gladly pay some money for it. Hell I think I played crash mode in the other burnouts more then the actual game.

umm....hello???: Mar 14th 2008; 1:44PM

AWESOME. can't wait for MS's repair center to fix my 360 and send it back....gotta lotta catching up to do...

fyreblazer: Mar 14th 2008; 3:34PM

Free DLC will ALWAYS give you brownie points. Hopefully these islands will be a very nice size.

Egon Pax: Mar 17th 2008; 9:33AM

Heck yeah! Free DLC FTW.

Criterion is awesome. I'm only about 50% finished with the game... I REALLY hope they add in two things:

1.) Original style Crash Mode
2.) Split-screen multiplayer

If they did this, not only would the game be more awesome, but I know several people who would immediately buy the game because of it.

hamzez: Apr 6th 2008; 10:10AM

i think that burnout is a legend game but i think that they should have put the new stuff in at the begining but the new car looks savage and i had an idea one island should be a army base and when you drive into the base tanks and hummers come after you and one island should be called the burnout island and you have to have a burnout license to get onto the island and thay should make a moter bike as a new vechicle that would be good

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