Burnout gets Euro date

By Robert Purchese Published 6 December, 2007

Late January. Smashing.

EA has told Eurogamer that Burnout Paradise will be out here on 25th January.

It follows word from late October that it will be on US shelves on 22nd, complimented by demos for PS3 and 360 sometime this month.

Burnout Paradise is the most ambitious outing in the series so far, presenting car crashers with an open world to zoom around, triggering races by stopping at streetlights or jumping through hoops and that sort of lark. The emphasis being on doing things at your pace and not in a rigid order. Free your minds.

You will also be able to invite your friends over to your world and have an automobile pyjama party, without any loitering in lobbies and all that palaver - they appear on your roads and drive around until you fancy a race.

Very promising is the general consensus, so pop over to our Burnout Paradise gamepage and crash yourself in information.

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Comments (28) Latest comment 4 years ago

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  • mkreku #1 4 years ago

    This is definitely a game I can see myself spending a lot of hours in.

  • Beano #2 4 years ago

    So basicly the real christmas is january 25th :)

  • Triggerhappytel #3 4 years ago

    Does anyone know if this game is focusing on dangerous driving a la Point of Impact (yay!), or car combat a la Takedown/Revenge (boo!)?!

  • zedzee #4 4 years ago

    We're in Europe now, expect delays for everything being released from now on. Simply because we have to wait until the 'continent' gets its SKUs as well, while we could've had the game the same time as the US - let's face it, "colour" is spelled "color" and "night" is spelled "nite" in all 'UK English' games - because no conversion is really attempted by the developers (we can all play NTSC now as well, so PAL will probably get dropped at some point, too).

    Welcome to the United States of Europe!
    Edited by 1 at 06/12/07 @ 13:13

  • Zomoniac #5 4 years ago

    If traffic checking is still there I'll be giving it a miss. Otherwise, count me in.

  • Vin #6 4 years ago

    It's still there.

  • sickpuppysoftware #7 4 years ago

    "we can all play NTSC now as well"

    I can't!

  • DesperadoDaz #8 4 years ago

    I am still not convinced i am going to like this game. The old Burnouts were fine and worked very well. It was all about the racing. Why jump on the Need for Speed / TDU bandwagon. The driving round part just isn't Burnout to me.

    Does anyone else feel like this ??

    DAZ

  • jonsaan #9 4 years ago

    I still think the first one was the best but I am mildly excited by this :)

  • Sir_TimAlot #10 4 years ago

    I tink traffic checking is in but only for some of the cars. Most fun part will be the mugshots, they are funny

  • Inspirius #11 4 years ago

    Demo is supposed to be available next week.

  • BM #12 4 years ago

    Since when can you play NTSC games on a EU 360? They're still all region locked, an odd few come out region free but that's it
    Edited by 1 at 06/12/07 @ 13:51

  • Kazzahdrane #13 4 years ago

    Zedee: Try reading comprehension...

    The game is out in North America in January too! We're getting it THREE DAYS LATER. If you're still complaining from that then grow up please.

  • tobi #14 4 years ago

    My No.1 most anticipated game of 2008.

  • Derblington #15 4 years ago

    frod wrote: no, traffic checking is not in.

    It most definitely is, just slightly differently to the balls up that was in the last game.

  • JJrabbit #16 4 years ago

    Pardon my ignorance but what's traffic checking? I've only played Burnout Takedown, for a short amount of time. Thought it was a great game and am looking forward to this one.

  • Philanthropist #17 4 years ago

    The demo will be out next week for both systems, there's a demo countdown for next Thursday at Criterion's site.

    It's released only 3 days later in Europe, that's a totally reasonable release date. Anyway, PS3 gamers can import a copy if they want since all PS3 games are region free.

  • JonFE #18 4 years ago

    Traffic checking is a gameplay mechanic they introduced in Burnout Revenge, where non-racing cars (about the same size and going the same way as yours) can be bumped into and be used as "bullets" to hit your opponents...

    Hope that's clear...

  • agparrot #19 4 years ago

    This has the potential to be great fun.

    I've been trying to crack Flatout: UC, so this will be good preparatory work for Paradise, hopefully.

  • JJrabbit #20 4 years ago

    Thanks JonFE, I think I understand. Simply by the sound of it, I'd rather it not be incorporated, but not really a deal breaker. Still going to get this unless reviews suggest otherwise.

  • Arcadiian #21 4 years ago

    Burnout 2 was by far the best Burnout, imo.

    @ zedzee.

    You seem to be contradicting yourself. You're saying the UK is Americanised and will be more so in the future, and then welcoming us to a United States of Europe. o_O

  • peteb #22 4 years ago

    @BM

    PGR4, Halo 3, Orange Box and Mass Effect are all region free also. It looks like the 360 games are becoming region free more and more now.

  • BM #23 4 years ago

    peteb

    I'm not arguing this, I got hold of a region free copy of Call of Duty 3 last year. I'm asking zedzee how you can play NTSC games on an EU 360. As far as I know you can't
    Edited by 1 at 06/12/07 @ 15:33

  • seasidebaz #24 4 years ago

    ntsc is a picture standard. 60hz is ntsc, 50hz is pal. simple as that.
    play in hd, though, and standards are the same. so the ntsc/pal thing only applies to low-def gaming.

    most lowdef 360 games require 60hz now to play, so technically are running ntsc picture format.

    edit: i think zedzee may have been on about ps3 anyway not 360, although to make a uk game from a us all hat needs to be changed is the region code
    Edited by 1 at 06/12/07 @ 16:27

  • peteb #25 4 years ago

    @BM

    Ahh ok! But i think he meant just our tvs can accept 60hz "NTSC" now.

  • Junglist95 #26 4 years ago

    Was looking foward to a christmas online of this & COD4. With the exception of COD4 burnout revenge was the most fun i've had on live (an that was the 1st game i owned for the 360), IMO those 2 games stand head & shoulders above all other games on live. At least we don't have to wait to long after christmas to get our hands on it, was expecting the worst when they said it wouldn't be out till the end of January in the states a while ago, but 3 days is great. IMO the open world style of this game (like TDU) will be fantastic.

  • stephen #27 4 years ago

    WANT.

  • Ryze #28 4 years ago

    Excellent.

    I'm in.