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.)
!damit imma have to buy this guy..
I still have the demo LOL
nice. gonna have to re-rent this from gamefly. dont worry will buy it one day when i actually get a job
4 player off-line Split-screen BurnOut Paradise anyone??? ;-D That would be AWESOME!!! ;-P MotorStorm 2 will be doing it??? Oh well :-( Nice updates tho ;)
@8 Otega You should definitely get this game… The game is crazy fun and these guys are working their butts off to add to it. You should check out their site.
@39 Cool stuff.. Thanks for all you work..
Year of Paradise!!!
PSN – ThEosSiE
Holla
“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.”
or more often than not drive around like numpties pretending it’s demolition derby!!
Maybe I should go out and purchase this game.
I have had a couple of the previous Burnout’s. :)
Very nice work Criterion. Looking forward to the upcoming updates and also very thankful dor the retroactive trophies. Even though BP’s actually one of my favourite games, I would’ve been very frustrated if I had to start all over again from 0%. Now I have 99 and only need a couple of jumps. :p
Thank you criterion for the retroactive trophies!
Retroactive Trophies !!?? Who would have thought it possible ?? LOL
Astounding, simply astounding.
That’s awesome! More devs should be like Criterion.
Yay they will be retroactive! Warhawk will most likely be too, sweet. Well that’s wicked cool, even though I have no real problem in playing a game again if it means I can show off my trophies. :P
This game was already on my buy list (im out of country atm), but now it just got pushed up big time.
YES trophies mean that much to me now. :P
I might pick up Burnout Paradise now.
and who said that SONY will not have the support of devs with this?
Anyway it’s really cool to know this now… I just have a question before buy this game… it allows split screen?
@ Simon, what wrong with the word “Retroactive”?! :D
Even Eric used it in the FW 2.40 FAQ :P
It’s the official word now!
Yes This game is soo awesome best driving game ever thanks i love the new approach to giving out free content to people and retroactive trophy support! I think this is the most any game developer has ever supported a game after launch i hope you will continue to do that because it seems like lots of people will pick up the game just because of the retro active trophies and all the new updates this game is soo awesome. I also heard in either EGM or GameInformer that you guys were going to do a free update and add a new area that will be unlocked in a new patch coming out so whats going on with that update can you please answer that? Thanks for all the support of burnout and PS I was rally happy to see the rumble feature implemented to Burnout cause not many games that i have did that.
A free update..? We\’re talking LOTS of updates.
Best way to check on everything Burnout Paradise-related is to drop by http://www.criteriongames.com – click on our \’Cagney\’ Davis\’ and \’Eastwood\’ buttons for stories on what is going into those updates.
Right now we\’re counting down to 10th July and the \’Cagney\’ update that will have new vehicles, game modes and a whole heap more.
There will be some paid content coming, but there will be lots of free stuff, and the paid content (like motorcycles in the \’Davis\’ update) we\’re working hard to make REALLY worth the cash.