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"Codenamed Cagney" is our 3rd and most ambitious software update yet!
It's a spectacular free addition to your Burnout Paradise experience, bringing a mountain of new gameplay.

Here's what you get:

3 New Freeburn Game Modes:

Road Rage

• Play with up to 8 players, split into two teams. One team must race through a series of Paradise City checkpoints. The other team must stop them.

• Cue incredible car chases, battling through the city, tons of voice communication as players co-ordinate their efforts.

Stunt Run (vs)

• Play with up to 8 players.  Pull stunts to score points - hit barriers, billboards and ramps; ace barrel rolls, flat spins and massive airtime to score big.

• Everybody competes to simultaneously reach the biggest total. Hit your rivals to kill their scores and gain multipliers.

Marked Man 

• Play with up to 8 players.  An individual is selected at random and everyone else gangs up to find them and run them off the road.

• If you're the Marked Man, you score for reaching the end point in one piece.  Skilled players can score big by eliminating other players along the way.

70 New Freeburn Challenges

• "Freeburn" is Burnout's enduring contribution to online gameplay - absolutely seamless switching between online and offline play, through the Easydrive Menu System.

• "Cagney" adds a further 70 new Freeburn Challenges and introduces a timer and multiple-stages to each challenges for the first time

• Leaderboards log your best time as well as the players that also participated, so you can see who rules at any particular challenge 

Vehicles
• Hunter Olympus
• The Nakamura Rai-jin Turbo RWD (rear-wheel-drive)

New Paint-jobs
• Rossolini Tempesta Dream
• We teamed up with our community to bring you 2 all-new paint-jobs for our favourite vehicles.  Check out the Oval Steel Racer and Inferno Hippie Van.

Ranked Race Changes
• We completely overhauled our ranked racing system to create a more honest racing scene.  here for the full breakdown!

Custom Soundtracks
• Custom Soundtrack support on PS3

Other high-priority fixes and updates

• If you're in a 3 or more player challenge and a player drops out, the remaining players can still complete it (subject to it being a challenge that can handle this!)
• "Previously" section on the search games list now displays Challenges, Today's Best and Freeburn game modes, making it loads easier to decide which game you want to join
• You can now view Leaderboards and Options in an online game
• You can now mute other online players in the show players screen
• You can now mute yourself if you have a PS3 Eye/Eye toy
• We've increased time-out for online races, and if all players complete the races within the timer, then you go straight to results
• The Airfield has been changed to help with the drivability of the area and make it a little easier to complete the hoop challenges
• Online cars now show damage - roll up to the start in a half-destroyed Hunter Cavalry and everyone else will see it!
• Added a stronger display message if you rule all of Todays Best
• The Easy Drive menu & Challenges page now loops from top to bottom
• Fixed the navigation system so that it takes into account the next check point in a race
• Fixed traffic not reappearing in Freeburn after a no-traffic race
• Fixed online races using Lawrence Road - it's been reporting finish distances with a little inaccuracy
• Revised 30+ car resets following crashes
• All new sound effects added for Easy Drive
• Driving backwards in Road Rage now ends the event as it does in Marked Man
• Option to invert camera axis for the look around camera on right stick
• Online player information made accurate on the instance a player goes through a checkpoint in races
• If you set VOIP mix to zero it is now saved correctly
• 1080i support for "almost HD" sets - PS3 only
• Improved the Standard Definition rendering on PS3
• New highlight to show the player in Today's Best
• Easy Drive fades out if it's unused for 20 seconds
• Boost chaining no longer possible by drifting in open areas