Big Surf Island still closed to tourists, Criterion working on a fix [update]

by Griffin McElroy { Jun 18th 2009 at 10:22AM }

Fans of Criterion's beloved Billy Joel driving/crashing simulator, Burnout Paradise, were hit hard by the events of yesterday's Xbox Live Marketplace implosion -- frequent Burn-ers have been unable to download the game's long anticipated territorial expansion, Big Surf Island. According to Criterion, "unforeseen technical problems caused this content to be to be removed from the Xbox LIVE Marketplace." Fortunately, the Burnout team is all up on it, working with Microsoft to get a fix out as soon as possible. We'll let you know when they're successful!

Update: Success! Just like that, Criterion's got Big Surf Island online. If you've got $12.99 to drop, Burnout Paradise has a new landmass for you explore.

Tags: big-surf-island, burnout-paradise, criterion, dlc, driving, expansion, xblm

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Mazrael @ Jun 18th 2009 10:30AM

"...and also add some fun achievements - worth an extra 500 gamerscore"

Well they have said that they try use up the points... premium dlc with minimal reward

Prox @ Jun 18th 2009 11:12AM

Get over it. Play the game for fun.

Mazrael @ Jun 18th 2009 11:28AM

It stopped being 'fun' at the A-license. I've since completed the Elite, out of completism. there was no really fun achievements to break the bordom of getting to 100% completion, yet my mate said there was loads of fun trophies, which somehow didn't make it to 360

Storm Eagle @ Jun 18th 2009 10:37AM

There was also a lot of problem with Rock Band DLC disappearing from the Marketplace. Including the new Spinal Tap/Evanescence tracks. I love it. Every single time they take down Live for maintenance, they seem to screw it up even more.

Dirty @ Jun 18th 2009 10:45AM

If it isn't fixable don't break it. Or something.

Old Professor Zertoss @ Jun 18th 2009 10:59AM

There's a Windows Update joke in there somewhere.

LeMansRacer @ Jun 18th 2009 10:39AM

Its back on in the UK, its been up since 1pm here

Trevsweb @ Jun 18th 2009 10:39AM

cant say its been worth the cash tbh. i love the game and all the expansions that can be possibly added but im 75% completed on the island and wondering what ive missed appart from the online challenges.

dextro @ Jun 18th 2009 2:18PM

Did you do all the smashes, billboards and jumps?

kal326 @ Jun 19th 2009 11:36AM

I just picked it up the original game for $19.99 new as a clearance or something or other that Walmart was ditching. I find it hard to drop another $12.99 for something that for all intents and purposes isn't much of an "expansion". Its a bit more space to do the same exact thing as the main game.

AndyS @ Jun 18th 2009 10:41AM

I wonder what the technical issues were. Was it a bug in the game, or a problem with the download infrastructure?

I got it last week and played it for an hour or two with no problems besides a couple of clipping issues on the island.

Mazrael @ Jun 18th 2009 11:54AM

I loaded it up to look for the bridge, as I'd never spotted it during my play, looked at the map, drove to it & got stuck on a curb.. I'm hoping they've tightened up the collision detection on the cars with the new patch/update

Jack Tretton @ Jun 18th 2009 10:48AM

"Fans of Criterion's beloved Billy Joel driving/crashing simulator..."

Way to riff on current events, fellas. :P

faketrout @ Jun 18th 2009 11:06AM

http://twitter.com/CriterionGames

According to their twitter, it came back up about an hour and a half before this post was made. Thanks for the effort, Joystiq.

watchthatman @ Jun 18th 2009 11:29AM

Yeah, way to take Joel down a peg after leaving that bitch of a wife who your brother used to date. BUNG.

shamowfski @ Jun 18th 2009 11:31AM

Been working on the PS3 fine.

eNrique @ Jun 18th 2009 1:05PM

It always work fine on PSN.
;)

Scooter @ Jun 18th 2009 12:38PM

Glad I bought this on PS3. Har har har.....

Seriously, though. Big Surf Island may be small, but it's dense with roads and paths to discover and drive on. Just finished unlocking the last of the Toy Legendary cars last night. I'm glad they made the Jansen 88 Special the easiest one to earn.... it's definitely the most fun.

Brian @ Jun 18th 2009 11:36AM

it's working now, I could download it. Just grabbed it 5 minutes ago.

Brian @ Jun 18th 2009 11:37AM

Sorry, could is past tense.

I can download it.

Jack Hollow @ Jun 18th 2009 12:24PM

So did the Live maintenance only effect the marketplace content that was released this week or has older content been effected as well?

I was downloading some things on Monday and didn't finish and forgot about the Tuesday shutdown and didn't have time to power up my 360 yesterday to see if the things were still in my queue.