New Burnout Paradise updates coming to PS3

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Hi there! It’s great that Criterion Games has made it to the PlayStation.Blog, so with this first post it’s best that we bring everyone up-to-date with what’s been happening since Burnout Paradise was released at the end of January.

The truth is – we simply haven’t stopped.

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We’re into our “Year of Paradise” – 12 months where the Burnout Team keeps on developing exciting new stuff to expand and change Burnout Paradise (and in the process, we aim to radically change what everyone expects of downloadable content).

We’ve so far released our 1.1 update, and our second update, codenamed: “Bogart,” packed with fixes and game-enhancing features.

Now, we’re expecting our third FREE update codenamed: “Cagney” that’s coming on 10th July (yes, that’s FREE – just put your Burnout Paradise disk into your PLAYSTATION 3 and it’ll download automatically), and we’re really excited about it as we count down to its release.

We’re talking:

3 new Online Game Modes

  • Online Stunt Run – you and up to 7 others compete for the highest stunt score
  • Online Road Rage – where you team up and try to stop the other team from reaching their destination
  • Online Marked Man – someone gets called out and everyone else tries to hunt them down

70 new Online Timed Challenges

  • Everyone teams up to pull off stunts and other feats in the world, against the clock

New Vehicles (including the Hunter Olympus)

Major improvements to our Ranked Racing system

Plus heaps more, including:

  • 1080i support for PlayStation 3 owners with “almost HD” sets
  • Improved Standard Definition rendering for PlayStation 3
  • Support for Custom Soundtracks on PlayStation 3

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Outside of the game, our website, www.criteriongames.com is changing too – we’re posting up to 4 stories daily direct from the team and we now have an audio and video podcast from the team that goes out on a weekly basis. This week’s podcast released on Friday, we’re talking in detail about what to expect in “Cagney” and the other game-changing updates beyond that.

The pace of change here at Criterion is breathtaking, so we’re going to be posting here on the PlayStation.Blog at least once a week to let you know more about what’s happening and what’s coming to Paradise City.

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185 Comments

  • Can you clarify what you mean about the standard definition rendering? What issues are being addressed?

  • terminatorvsmtrx

    bring on the addons… i hope i can find time to dust off the old burnout paradise now though considering mgs4 and gta iv are literally taking up every free moment i have

  • Very quiet

  • Kratos_ate_Snake

    good to see it is still being supported..

  • “1080i support for PlayStation 3 owners with “almost HD” sets” funny. LOL

    Anyways thanks for the update and custom soundtracks. Burnout has always been super fun to play.

  • Criterion is definitely delivering on the updates and making the game really worth the purchase! Thanks and welcome to posting on the dark side of gaming haha! <3

  • i got the game when it first released, i love it, and i love the support its getting!
    this is the way how devs/publishers should say thanks to gamers for purchasing their game

    great job!! i will buy your next game, just because you show that you care about your product and the gamers

  • evilman, you accomplish nothing with this but making it an enormous pain to read the blog…

  • Is there any chance of a Black 2 from you guys over at Criterion Games. Burnout is great and all but I would love to see another Black game.

  • Sweet! Can’t wait for this… but why until July 10th? Checking for bugs?? Anyways… the sooner better.

  • @evilman

    Chillax buddy, it will be here before the end of the month.

  • Wow, this was unexpected, but hey who knows it might work.

  • You can use a custom soundtrack in PA!N, but it’s not in-game XMB music. Maybe it’s just a proprietary music player in the game that searches your HDD for music.

  • damnz somebody sure wants 2.40

  • I, for one, hope that Criterion is successful at keeping used copies of Burnout Paradise off the shelves with these new updates.

  • Well besides the huge rant..

    Nice update, Im looking forward to it,

  • @ GameDreamer

    It would a lot better if Pain used custom soundtracks from the In-Game XMB instead. I hope they update it so that it works that way.

  • evilman278 your not alone on that one. I wish Sony would give us 2.40 now as well but I guess it’s not ready or something.

  • Sounds awesome. I especially like the custom soundtracks part! ;D

  • Lol, what about the patent Microsoft had on custom soundtracks?

  • @VenomX

    I am not entirely sure, but I think the details of Microsoft’s patent cover a custom soundtrack that is handled through the console’s operating system. Having a custom soundtrack which is accessible via an interface programmed into a game, however, is free game. In other words, Sony could provide help with third parties in developing methods within the game to use custom soundtracks and that would be fine. However, this is a rough idea of how the patent might be detailed. I haven’t actually read the thing in a while.

  • awesome to see that Burnout is still gonna be getting the love all through this year. I wish most devs would adopt this sort of idea and continue to expand their games until the have completed and released their new project. I know expansion cost time and money but it sure would be great to keep their product fresh much like Warhawk. Incognito has done a great job of evolving Warhawk and it looks Criterion aims to do the same. mad props to you guys. Incognito should take notes for their next update (custom soundtracks). But hey, if 2.4 includes custom soundtracks then they don’t have a thing to worry about!

    peace,
    Lh

  • thats amazing stuff!!!!

    great work!!

  • @ TrumpetMan

    So if Sony used In-Game XMB to do custom soundtracks it would be a patent infringement? Ah, sucks if that’s true.

  • Yeah “101”. I also want to know what it is about “Improved Standard Definition rendering for PlayStation 3”. What does it mean? No eyes hurting edges anymore?

  • Shame they couldnt fix it so that you can simply restart a race if you dont win. Fix it and i might start playing again, for me this is a major gripe

  • Iloveplaystation

    Talk to us about the downtime that PS3 is havning today.. IS finally in-XMB coming after thoose 6 hours of maintence

  • I wanted 4 player off-line spilt-screen mode :-( (so do a lot of people i know)
    Thanks for the update tho! ;)

  • @ 101 – see here (http://www.criteriongames.com/article.php?artID=120) for a full explanation of the SD improvements, including screenshots

    @ 111 – the date of 11th July is because the update has to go through Sony & Microsoft’s various testing and approval processes. The update is finished, it has left Criterion, it just has to flow through the right tubes to get released, and unfortunately these things take time.

  • Seriously…great game and also a great community on the Criterion blog/site. I love just driving around Paradise City and seeing the different areas and environments. I honestly assumed that when GTA IV came out, I would spend all my time driving around Libery City instead. But for whatever reason, I find myself still playing Burnout Paradise….maybe I just have a hard time adapting to the lower resolution textures and choppy frame rate in GTA IV. But whatever the reason, Burnout Paradise is still my most played game of the year. Only problem is that it was released way back in Janurary and might be forgotten when all of the ‘Game Of The Year’ awards are released at the end of 08.

  • game is good.once i get some extra cash ill be buyin this. gameflyed it bout 4 times already. cant wait to try the newstuff

  • Great news ! I will be picking up Burnout Paradise this week-end actually.

  • @130

    For me, it’s burnout’s car handling. I would’ve wished the cars would handle the same in GTA. GTA’s stupid car handling turn me off the game (the lack of tanks also…)

  • @105, Sufood, next time try posting the title of the article instead of “look at the second article”…. it’s not like they ever ADD articles and the one your talking about could move down to third, fourth or fifth and so on.

    krod! LOL

  • i just want play music on while playing warhawk xD .
    other way this nice this will hold me up until 2.4 release

  • Thank you god for Custom Soundtracks. Its something that every single game on the PS3 needs. Now I can rock some ColdPlay while playing burnout.

  • @ 128 Iloveplaystation | June 24th, 2008 at 1:52 am

    You wish! In your dreams buddy. I’ve learned not to get excited about Sony’s news…specially with countless delays! I could be wrong but we’re more likely to see the 2.40 firmware update mid July. If not the end of July.

    I still love you though Sony!!! Please remember that Custom Soundtracks is just as important as in-game XMB.

  • @desidarious – sorry about that, was 4 in the morning here and I tried posting a link to the article three times but psblog wouldn’t allow it.
    Then I thought that I was blocked or something so I posted “very quiet in here” to check if it was just the link that was being blocked. By the time I posted that I was ready to pass out and unable to think so it wasn’t the greatest heads up.
    Lets rectify it, Last night a post was made on ps3fanboy which had a screenshot of a new psn id which included trophy’s and the sort. Its still just a rumor right now but it was supposedly conformed by a R&D developer.
    No confirmation as of yet, but one thing to keep in mind is that if this is true it looks like a replacement for the current profile which you can access by pressing triangle then profile in the friend section of the xmb. If it is true then it wont be the main way you view your own trophy’s on the xmb, there will be a trophy’s section on the xmb for that by the looks of the 2.40 videos.

  • I’d just like to note that I just got back from EB and this game, along with Battlefield, came with me. I hope the full game is as good as you all have made it out to be. I played the demo and was a little off put by a “FEW” key things but thought the graphics were great and the collision/wrecks were modled to perfection. I bought this over Grid because it seemed like more than just a racer.

    So here’s to the update and me having the game finally!

  • you’ll like it, I just wish there was a splitscreen mode. Me and my brother hate having to take turns.

  • I really hate split screen. It gives me eye pain. Online co-op is the best way to go.

  • I love how they are breathing new life to this game.

  • This game is so awsome

  • blog update please :)

  • #143

    Online co-op doesn’t address the issue of people who have real-life friends who want to play in the same room at the same time.

  • sweet i see the first of many games being patched for IN-GAME music FIRST was PAIN now BURNOUT :)great job guys bring it on.

    ROLL ON 2.40

  • @gamesblow haters … hey comrades, I find gamesblow’s comments immature and even borderline ridiculous at times myself, but that initial comment about the in-game XMB being over-hyped and his preference for drivers in the cars doesn’t count.

    The preference to see a real driver makes perfect sense to me. It doesn’t bother me personally, but I do love how it looks on Gran Turismo for example, so if he doesn’t like the look without, he doesn’t. I can see why Criterion didn’t include drivers, considering the carnage in the game though (although Motorstorm did a good balance on that one I think).

    As for his comment about the XMB, he’s completely correct. Access to the XMB from inside the game does NOT mean we’ll have custom soundtracks in all games. You can access the XMB while watching a video too, but if you play music, the video ends. You can access the XMB while listening to music but if you access the store, the music stops too.

    Being able to see the XMB and access its features does not necessarily mean being able to do all those things AND play a game at the same time (I can imagine changing video settings on-the-fly might screw with game logic, for example).

    Granted, 90% of the rest of gamesblow’s comments I’ve found abrasive and ignorant, but this one’s on the money.

  • Re: the 1080i output mode, for those who aren’t aware of the math, that’s a 12.5% increase in pixels output (they’re rendering in 960×1080 and then scaling it in software to a full 1920×1080) and they’re saying they can still maintain a full 60fps.

    Personally, in a driving game, its the vertical resolution that matters, in terms of being able to make out detail near the horizon on the road, so I’ll be playing this in 1080i (since my TV is 1080i but supports 720p) from now on.

    In contrast, I played Drake’s in 720p despite the 1080i option they added for people without 720p support, because I like the added horizontal detail for aiming at tall slim sets of pixels (enemies).

  • It’s not on the money. Because neither you or him have any friggin’ idea how (or if) custom soundtracks are going to be implemented.

    SURE, come out and say “it might not work” but don’t state it like fact…and then [DELETED] and whine like a little dress-wearing Sally-Ann (Gamesblow, not you…)

    Gamesblow is a troll. And a sad little pathetic one at that. End of story.

  • @tretle

    here is that link to the patent MS have for IN-GAME MUSIC
    http://www.google.com/patents?id=mx93AAAAEBAJ&dq=gaming+soundtrack

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