A big moment in Burnout history is just around the corner.
We’re working flat out to bring you yet another free content pack for Burnout Paradise – and this one’s the Bike Pack!
If you missed our recent posts, we’re trying something new with downloadable content this year. We want to completely change the game we brought you back in January with regular game changing updates. That means more than just a couple of cars and a new level.
For the first time in a Burnout game, we’re bringing you motorcycles. We’ve already talked about the 2 bikes available from Day 1 and some of the bike-specific gameplay that’s on the way, but there’s more to this pack than that. We’re introducing night time to the streets of Paradise City and with it, some unique gameplay.
When the pack arrives, just head for the nearest Junkyard and pick one of the bikes – either the Nakamura Firehawk V4 or the Nakamura FV1100.
Here’s a map showing Paradise City and all the different events you can try – Race, Road Rage, Marked Man, Burning Route and Stunt Run. For the full run-down on how these work, check out the video on our website.
Selecting one of the bikes triggers a whole load of new gameplay – 70 new challenges, 38 new against-the-clock races (Burning Rides) and new “Road Rules” record times for 64 streets – it’s like a whole new game to play through!
And if that’s not enough, once the sun sets at 8pm, the game changes.
The lights on the bike switch on, the traffic thins out creating an all new environment for high speed racing and we trigger some night-specific gameplay – half of the new Burning Rides take place at night and are called Midnight Rides.
Here’s how the clock works:
From 8pm to 8am it’s night. We figured you’d want to decide how fast this comes around, so we made the clock customizable. You can easily switch between day and night and try out the different gameplay whenever you like. You can also control the speed of change – anything from 24 minutes to real-time (24hrs), if you’re up for an epic session!
If you play an online game, we automatically switch all players to the host time, fast forwarding through day or night as necessary. I swear you never get tired of seeing it!
We’ll be back with more next week – our final post before Bikes go live!
And as always, if you want more details, head to our own website – www.criteriongames.com
I recently bought burnout (as promised!), and I have not been disappointed! I find myself starting it up as soon as I get home from work. I vaguely remember you guys mentioning that there will be weather in this update too (or maybe a future one?) how will that work, or do you want it to be a surprise? I thought it might be fun if you could use the weather module you have on the news page to show the local weather in game. It would be fun to have a huge storm out and have it raining in my ps3 too, hehe.
Anyhow, great work! I’m anxiously awaiting my bikes!
Great to have you on board DarkWolf!
No surprises on the weather. We are indeed rolling weather into the bike pack, and we\’ll talk about it in next week\’s post.
We haven\’t focused on it just yet, because we\’re all about the \”game changing content\”. Everything we do this year is aimed at changing the experience you have in Paradise City, and the weather is purely visual at this stage.
Does look absolutely awesome, though!