NEWS
The Toys are Back in Town!
It's Week 3 of our 6 week Burnout Paradise 2009 blow-out! If you missed out on our previous exciting announcements, you can see them all here, in our Coming Soon area.
This week, we're showing the Burnout cars as you've never imagined them - Toy cars are taking over Paradise City. It's another amazing Downloadable Content Pack for Burnout Paradise that will be available in 2009.
Here's a screenshot to get you in the mood:
Regular Burnout fans will recognise 5 Paradise City classics – the Carson GT Concept P12, the Krieger Racing WTR, the Hunter Takedown 4x4 and the Hunter Manhattan, but there are 9 awesome vehicles in this range.
We promised we'd take you into uncharted territory!
In 2009, Burnout Paradise is taking a journey into the unknown. If you want to join us, just pick up a copy of Burnout Paradise on PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360, take it online and take you pick from the year's downloadable packs.
We'll bring you more detail on these cars and how they handle over the coming weeks.
Today, we're really excited to bring you the first look at the cover art for Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box:
Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box will be released in February 2009 for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and, (for the first-time ever) the PC.
The Ultimate Box contains an enhanced version of Burnout Paradise as well all the updates so far:
• Codename: Cagney Pack
• Burnout Paradise Bikes Pack
• PlayStation Trophies Pack (PlayStation 3 only)
PLUS
• The brand-new Burnout Paradise: Party Pack
Don't forget to check by the site again on Friday for another announcement about awesome new content coming to the world of Burnout Paradise.
Here’s this week’s big announcement!
We’re talking Burnout Paradise Legendary Cars.
This year, we’ve introduced some of the most incredible vehicles yet seen in a Burnout game. Our FREE Cagney pack brought you the crazy Steel Oval Racer and the Hippie Wagon, and the FREE Bikes Pack brought motorcycles to Paradise City for the first time ever.
In 2009, we’re taking Burnout vehicles to the next level with some truly unbelievable new vehicles. First up – The Jansen 88 Special.
This classic 1980’s styled silver sports car is based on the fan-favourite Jansen P12, but we’ve made a few interesting modifications.
Fill the gauge and hit boost to trigger burning flame trails from your back wheels. The 88 Special’s fast, manoeuvrable and great in the air.
In fact, if you want to take off, this is just the car for you. Hit L3 to switch to hover mode – the wheels retract and the car takes off and hovers through Paradise City at head height.
Seriously. It hovers.
This is the first of 4 cars that we’re making available as part of a wealth of new downloadable content for Burnout Paradise. They’re available to buy individually or discounted, if you pick up the whole set. In addition to the Jansen 88 Special, look out for the Cavalry Bootlegger, Manhattan Spirit and the GT Nighthawk.
We’ll bring you details of these in a future post or on Crash TV – our video podcast.
You can check out the announcement in Episode 12 of Crash TV by heading over to our podcast page or by subscribing to Crash TV on iTunes.
We’ll be back next week with another cracking podcast and another killer announcement for next year’s awesome Burnout Paradise content.
Our latest video podcast - a spooky Crash TV Halloween Special is now available on iTunes. Subscribe here!
It's features an exclusive preview of our just-announced Burnout Paradise Party Pack gameplay.
We're finally ready to unveil the first in a wide range of new Burnout Paradise content for 2009.
Our first pack of the year will be called Burnout™ Paradise Party.
Burnout Paradise is an awesome social game, but the action's all online. With Party, we wanted to create something for when all the players are in one place – gathered around a single screen.
Fans of the classic Crash Mode from Burnout 2: Point of Impact will know that this is not the first time we've done something like this. And we hope the response to Party is as warm as it was for Crash mode.
So, if you like to get together and play games, it's time to break out the drinks, party hats and balloons!
Now you can enjoy Burnout Paradise in a completely new way.
1. Get together with up to 7 friends and gather round a PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360. Here you can see us lining up for a little Halloween-themed fun with Burnout Party. You can see the full session in our latest Crash TV video podcast - it's The Halloween Special!
2. Start Burnout Paradise and get the Party Pack update from the Store or Xbox Live
3. Pause to admire the excellent new Party Edition visuals and atmosphere! We've overhauled not just the presentation screens but also the in-game visuals, which are now brighter and more colourful in recognition of Burnout's new party theme.
4. Select 8-player party and get ready for the action.
5. It's pass-the-pad, so you'll only need one controller to play, no matter how many players are involved!
6. The game selects a player at random and drops them into Paradise with a simple, fun challenge to complete.
Land a barrel roll!
Survive racing oncoming traffic
Race a circuit of the dirt track in the best possible time
There are 3 types of challenge to take on – Stunt, Speed and Skill. Stunt involves jumps and tricks. Speed features quick time trials and timed challenges. Skill includes racing through oncoming traffic and drifting your car.
7. Pick up the winner and run around cheering / commiserate the loser
8. Give it another go! Don’t forget, there are extra trophies and achievements available within this pack.
You'll be able to purchase this awesome premium Burnout Paradise content from February 2009.
This year, we've transformed Burnout through downloadable content. We've already released our codenamed Cagney and Bikes packs, loaded with amazing new gameplay and for the first time ever: motorcycles! We've also just announced our awesome Party Pack. You can read about it today on this very blog.
These innovations are all available to existing Burnout Paradise players. (Cagney and Bikes are FREE right now! Party will be available to buy in Feb '09.)
But, if you haven't got Burnout Paradise or you're not an online-connected player, we wanted to give you the chance to join in the fun!
So, today we're announcing Burnout™ Paradise: The Ultimate Box – a new packaged game for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and for the first time ever – on the PC! That's right, PC players will finally be able to experience a Burnout game, and we've been working hard to make sure it's something very special indeed.
The Ultimate Box will be available in Feb 2009 and will contain the original Burnout Paradise, including Codenamed Cagney and Burnout Bikes, and also Burnout Paradise Party plus a mountain of new refinements.
Amidst all the excitement of today's Party Pack and Ultimate Box announcements (check them out here on the blog), we almost overlooked the fact that we're giving you lots more information on the PC game, so here 's a quick post for PC fans looking forward to a little Burnout action.
We can finally announce that the game will be made available at the same time as the console versions of Burnout™ Paradise The Ultimate Box in Feb 2009. It will feature all the same content - that means a radically enhanced Burnout Paradise plus Cagney, Bikes and Party packs.
If you've missed our previous posts, head over to the PC home page for an up-to-date summary of everything we've announced so far.
We're working hard to get closer to our fans this year.
We've already invited many to join us here at CriterionGames for a tour of the studio and a chance to meet the Burnout team. We introduced a blog and an in-game news service, so we could deliver all the latest Burnout news direct to the people that matter most, and we're bringing you all the latest information on what we're building and why, as we go about bringing Burnout Paradise the greatest online support for a game ever.
Now, we're making use of Sony's incredible in-game PlayStation 3 browser to go a step beyond.
We're taking the existing Burnout Live News Page and revolutionising it using the PlayStation browser to bring you a massively upgraded news service, enhanced social play and much, much more – the result is something we're calling the Burnout Paradise Network.
We're looking forward to bringing you more information on this in the new year.
Welcome to the new website of Criterion Games, the creators
of the award-winning Burnout series.
If you're seeing inconsistent graphics, hit Ctrl F5 to clear your cache.
The new site's a great introduction to Burnout Paradise and all our
other games. If you've never experienced Criterion
gameplay, here's where you'll find out what it's all about.
It's also a fun place for regular Burnout players to hang
out.
We've collected together the best of all our previous blog
content and organised it, so you can easily find out about our games, and we
can keep adding great content to it.
It's Burnout 101, in-depth guide, team tips, manual and technical support
all rolled into one. Here's what we've
got:
There's a news
blog bringing all the latest information direct from the team behind Burnout. We'll tell you about everything we're working
on – all the next exciting updates and our forthcoming PC game.
You can watch our video podcast – Crash TV – from its new home
page. It's your chance to see the
creators of Burnout on location in our studio.
We're starting to introduce in-depth guides, support from
the team and hints and tips on how to play like this
one to help you get the most out of Burnout Paradise.
There's a place to find
out where our games are available, so it's now easier than ever to get your
hands on awesome Burnout or Black gameplay.
And if you've already got Burnout, you can check out your latest stats, compare your progress with other players, and, on PlayStation 3, create a map to help you find the last remaining content.
And of course it's sporting some new, gentler-on-the-eye visuals
to make it more relaxing place catch up with Criterion Games.
Got any feedback? As
always, you can hit the mailbag
or the forums.
