Second week on the blog – and what a week it’s been!
Here at Criterion, it was great to get the news that the Codename: Cagney update for Burnout Paradise has passed through submission at Sony Europe. That’s a great place to be in. Next step – get the “okay” in the USA and we’ll be sure to be hitting our deadline of 10th July for this awesome FREE pack of game-changing content.
Also, the third episode of our video podcast, CRASH TV is blowing the roof off the iTunes charts with its combination of exclusive footage, news, and details of upcoming PlayStation-specific features.
And talking of upcoming PlayStation-specific features, we’d like to confirm here that Criterion WILL be supporting PlayStation Trophies in a future update of Burnout Paradise. It won’t be the Codename: Cagney update, but Trophies will be coming to Paradise soon.
Now, if that wasn’t enough excitement for the week, we thought we’d talk about Timed Challenges – a new feature that’s coming to Burnout Paradise online in Codename: Cagney that gives you even more ways for you and your online friends to get together and have amazing fun with cars.
If you’ve not played Burnout Paradise before, you may not know about what we call “Freeburn” or “Freeburn Challenges.” So if you haven’t, here’s the deal:
Burnout Paradise is about having fun with cars in a massive, open-world city. Sure, it’s about racing and other game modes, but one of the things that really sets Paradise apart is “Freeburn.” Up to eight players meet online to just mess around in their cars – see who can drift the furthest, get the most air, spins, barrel rolls, drive furthest in oncoming traffic, etc.
Freeburn Challenges are a part of that mode – special challenges that the host of the online game can activate for everyone to do together.
A challenge can be anything from simply driving in oncoming traffic or finding a billboard and smashing it, to lining up all of your teammates and jumping over them. It’s about teamwork and having fun, and there are 350 of these challenges to play with.
Now, Timed Challenges are a new set of 70 Freeburn Challenges that are coming with the Codename: Cagney update that add an extra, but exciting, element – a timer.
When a Timed Challenge is started, players must meet in a specified place within Paradise City. Once there, a timer begins to count down and the team of players must race to complete a challenge in the world in the shortest time possible. If you’re all successful and beat the clock, your best time is put on a leaderboard.
Sounds simple? It is, but it’s loads of fun, and that leaderboard drives everyone back for “just one more go” because you know you can shave a few more seconds off your best time!
And talking of countdowns, it’s just over 9 days to go before you can check it out when Codename: Cagney is released as a free update.
(These exclusive screenshots show a Timed Challenge in progress – here, two new Codename: Cagney cars – a Rossolini Tempesta Dream and a Hunter Steel Oval Champ meet up in a basketball court by the beach and must to leap off the roof of a car park on the far side of the city.)
Lovely :D
Sweet!
Criterion rocks. I’ve never seen this much support and new features for a game post-release. Keep it up guys, other devs should follow suit. Cheers
I wish i was english so when i say : ‘lovely’ with my british accent i would be super cool (or bloody nice)
Awesome work guys, and great after-release support :)
Thast really great. I just wish trophies were already supported :'(
Oh well. I just wont play any game until it is supported. :D
@ schitthammer – Incognito also rocks… take a look at Warhawk! it was released last August and is still getting new features and additional content through D/L updates. but alas you are right. I wish more devs would follow suit and give us all free content post release. tis a lovely thing, shows they really care about their consumers and the product in which they have invested.
peace,
Lh
well that just sold me on getting the game:)
other developers would be retarded not to make trophies because people will buy just to level up.
I really hope this game sold well.
It just shows the commitment that Criterion has to their product and to the PS brand.
Hell yeah! I have Burnout Paradise too.
What about copying gamesaves? We CAN copy gamesaves and use that map feature to check any spots we missed.
Wouldn’t cheaters have the ability to cheat there way through that by copying a gamesave?
Good, ut what about exclusive games ??
Nice job guys. Loving the support you’re giving to the PS3. You guys ROCK!!!!
BTW, when we use custom soundtracks on this game and we want to play our custom soundtracks, can we use the in-game XMB to play a song instead of using the menu?
NIIIIIIIIICE!!! :D
Has there been any previous patches/add on’s for Burnout sinces it release? Because I got the idea that there had been but I went on and there was nothing.
We\’re about to hit the third FREE update on July 10th (Codenamed \’Cagney\’)
The first update (1.1) was a bunch of quick fixes and improvements, the second (Codenamed \’Bogart\’) had more minor improvements and tweaks.
If you\’re logged into PlayStation Network and you boot up Burnout Paradise, it will automatically download any updates that are out there. To test if you have them all today – just load up the game and go into an online game.
Codename: Cagney is an entirely new thing though – a free pack full of game changing content, that sets the precedent for future updates: new game modes, vehicles and a new Live Page that will show you details of upcoming calendar events and news from http://www.criteriongames.com.