Criterion details Burnout Paradise DLC that never was

deff one of my favorite racing games, keep it up =] cant wait to see what else is up their sleeve

I have loved the additions to Burnout Paradise, it really was the gift that kept giving. What's odd is all the free content was stuff I would have paid for, and most (not all) of the paid stuff I wasn't interested in.

Loved the classic 80s tv and movie cars! Delorean and General Lee for the win!

I'll take more Paradise content or a Burnout 6 over them doing a NFS reboot. No doubt they'll make NFS a great arcade racer, but I can't get enough Burnout! Paradise is easily my favorite racing game ever made, even though it's lacking a few of the excellent features from Takedown and Revenge (aka, my previous favorites).

Sounds like cool content though, and I'll definitely support them with my dollar whenever their next game comes out.

If they aren't going to release it, I don't want to know about it. I just wish they were working on a sequel instead of Need for Speed 28 or whatever.

Criterion, thanks for releasing Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box for the PC, even though it came out a full year after the console versions, you included most of the DLC released prior. I thank you as a console developer for showing the PC some love. Now, can you release some DLC the PC didn't get like Big Surf Island please? : )

They are fans of Road Rash !! Cool !
...i knew that thinking about is pretty obvious ... but .. i would never guessed xD

imagine them remaking road rash.....the awesomeness is too much.....i cant contain it

Archaic use of diatribe. Not sure if I endorse that message or not.

I liked paradise. But effin A, I miss crash mode. CRASH MODE!!!!

Burnout Paradise reignited racing games for me. It was free roam, open word, flawless on/offline play, and the support for it was amazing. I will gladly pick up the next Burnout (since they seem to be done with dlc) if criterion promises even half of the dlc they gave for paradise.

They ignored the entire PC community's cries for Big Surf Island on PC. They didn't even have the decency to say 'no' after several months. I will NOT be buying any more Criterion games because of this. Just plain bad business and rude.

I'm not a huge fan of racing games, in general, outside of Mario Kart... but Burnout Paradise really got me into it and I spent more time on IT than I do most RPGs (165 hours with 303% completion).

At any rate, Criterion is a developer I often cite on here, and other forums, as one of the few developers to be doing DLC right this generation... I often get criticized for it due to reasons like "OMG Criterion charged for some DLC" followed by other such nonsensical whining. But its true... alongside Media Molecule and Ubisoft, I think they're the only ones to do DLC right, while others like Capcom and Lucasarts could learn a thing or three.

Burnout Paradise was a great example of how to keep a game fresh and just how a developer should continue to support their titles... and Mm is doing the same.

I've sunk a lot of time into this game and I think it is the greatest arcade racer of all time (that or San Francisco rush). The cops and robbers dlc and the island were the best. The underground and boats dlc ideas sound so good. The online on this was so much fun, seriously more burnout Criterion, fuck the nfs franchise.

In all of their crazy DLC creative enhancements did they ever plan, oh I don't know, a CRASH mode? You know, like the excellent and popular CRASH modes featured in Burnout 2, Burnout Takedown and Burnout Revenge? Maybe I'm old school but even years after after Burnout 2 died out in mainstream, me and friends were still vying for the high score lists in the measly 15 intersections included in crash mode. Nothing in Paradise even came close.

You can thank EA for cutting things short, as usual. EA is a cancer to the gaming industry.

Gotta love Burnout Paradise. Best arcade racer out there, next to Motorstorm: Pacific Rift!

I thought having Cars and Motorbikes in the same game was going to happen anyway when they released the bikes. I was disappointed when I couldn't race against cars.

"Also: the planes thing wasn't an April Fool's joke -- the dev actually wanted to add them (and other vehicles) into the game."

I still don't get why people ever thought it was. As they said, they showed them off in a podcast way before the April Fools stuff.

As they said, they hinted at all of them beforehand so not many are a surprise. Although it's nice to hear how much they worked on them before deciding against them.

Burnout Paradise was the 2nd Burnout game I'd ever played, having missed out on the original but hearing amazing stuff about it then buying Burnout 2 for Gamecube. After that they ignored the Gamecube so I couldn't get the others which was disappointing as Burnout 2 was favourite Gamecube racer.

With that, the one thing I missed in Burnout Paradise was a separate Crash mode. There were many junctions they could have included a crash mode. Though they did have a semi crash mode in the game as far as I know, but it was up to you to find those big crashes.

I'm crying.

Those things (nay, of course, the whole Time Travel thing since that'd be a bit too much) would have been awesome.

I just hope that some might make it into Paradise 2 or Burnout 6 or whatever the heck they'll call it.

Burnout Paradise was a pleasant surprise for me. I bought off the PS store for $20, I think, and I have over 70 hours in. And that's a lot for me. Great value, great dlc some of it cost free. I'll gladly pay $60 for the next Burnout, or even Need For Speed if Criterion will treat it just as well.

The removal of crash mode in favor of car bowling is what made me loose interest in Paradise over past Burnout releases. Plus having to drive back to the original destination to restart a race was somewhat annoying. So even though they released tons of DLC, I pretty much never looked back at the title after I stopped playing. Too bad crash mode wasn't added via DLC.

I just got this game last night for xbox, how much will i spend if i get ALL the DLC?? Ultimate box is pc-only, right?

Worked their butts off? I'm sorry, but they did ONE free pack that had any noticeable content in it, and that was the Bikes Pack. There were only two bikes, which got some visual mods to be unlocked later as a second set. There were some really basic races and challenges, but that's it.

Problem was too the bikes were so poorly implemented. There was no independent front and rear braking, which made the bikes so boring. No endos/stoppies, no burnouts, no donuts. On top of that the wheelies were pointless because you could only pull up so much and it'd stop so you could just wheelie forever. There was no skill involved and it go so old so quickly. Hell, putting the specifics aside, the bikes just weren't even that fun to drive, and all of the races were time trials. No bike vs bike. It's sad because even GTA does bikes better then this.

I know, they added weather and a day night cycle, but in my opinion they basically patched in shit that should of been there from the start. So please people, get it straight here. I don't know how it happened, but their free support got blown into them like giving the game away for free or something. It was nice, but there was no way you could of charged anything more then $5 for the Bikes Pack, and that's even pushing it.

But then they stopped, and the formerly free Big Surf Island became a $12.50 paid pack. That's more then it's worth, but that doesn't bother me too much in comparison. What did bother me is them charging out the ass for the DLC Car Packs and the small, insignificant shit like the Party Pack and Cops and Robbers. Both $10 packs that really had less content then the Bikes Pack or a lot of dirt cheap or free DLC does.

Somewhere along the line, Criterion got made into gods by the gaming community for their support of the game, and when you break it down, their support was really nothing special. Get a grip already people.

GOOSH, why all the hate on nfs?? CANT WAIT FOR CRITERION TO DEV. IT
it'll be a reboot for crying out loud. Im truely looking forward to it. since its going back to its ROOTS