Burnout Paradise coming to PC

By Robert Purchese Published 9 May, 2008

Massive resolutions, customised content.

Criterion has decided it is about time Burnout was offered to you lot on PC.

So it will be rebuilding Burnout Paradise for the desktop world, enhancing the multiplayer, online features and community-driven content as it goes.

Criterion has released the first shots of the game running in a whopping resolution of 1920x2400. These are apparently un-altered and ripped straight from a double-screen portrait of Paradise.

Criterion will be dishing lots more dirt on its PC version in its live podcast that started at 4pm BST.

Pop over to the Criterion website to drop in on the action.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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Comments (33) Latest comment 4 years ago

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  • shamblemonkee #1 4 years ago

    link no worky?!

  • Gaol #2 4 years ago

    Playin on Pc with the 360 pad FTW!

  • Gaol #3 4 years ago

    Try this shamblemonkee:

    http://ww w.eurogamer.net/article.php?art...

  • mrpon #4 4 years ago

    Is this Lego Burnout?

  • Feanor #5 4 years ago

    Cool. And I just found out today that EA let you buy some of their PC titles as direct downloads.

  • Darren #6 4 years ago

    Urgh, looks like a PS3 game with all those jaggies... ;)

  • penguin_overlord #7 4 years ago

    Looks amazing! Why can't the consoles do that?

  • chiz #8 4 years ago

    So much for P.C. gaming dying.

  • GiarcYekrub #9 4 years ago

    EA Link/Download Manager Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

  • BiscuitBase #10 4 years ago

    Never thought I'd see Criterion working on a PC game! Alex Ward supposedly hates PCs

  • [TR] #11 4 years ago

    @BiscuitBase: I remember buying Trickstyle for PC (quite) a few years ago. And it was great back then.

    But this looks to me to be the perfect Burnout for a PC port. The mod aspect sounds promising. They should also allow mods for PS3 (360 too, if MS lets them) like in UT3.

  • miiiguel #12 4 years ago

    Everyone's excited!

    Please EG hold on to that article that says one must have an internet connection and an intrusive check will be performed every 2 days.

  • smelly #13 4 years ago

    "
    Please EG hold on to that article that says one must have an internet connection and an intrusive check will be performed every 2 days."


    Erm.. Everyone on here has an internet connection.. what's the problem?

    And i doubt any check would be more than a couple of k either.. hardly going to push your internet limits is it?

  • miiiguel #14 4 years ago

    @ smelly,

    Regarding Mass Effect, EGers were absolutly disgusted, maybe the "esoteric" reasons stroke us again and it doesn't matter anymore.

    [link url=http://www.eurogamer.net/arti cle_discussion.php?article_id=137441&comment_start=100 ]http://ww w.eurogamer.net/article_discuss...[/link]

  • Katsumoto #15 4 years ago

    Interesting. Interesting. Never been into racing games that much (well, since GP2) but a recent delve in to Trackmania has ressurected my interest. I presume the two are nothing alike in any way, however? Time to go and read some old reviews.

    p.s. Smelly, stop quoting people on my ignore list! It ruins the suspense! I'm guessing it was a classic xbot, kyron or miiguel. Time for a generic response: "at least I won't pay 40 quid a year to play it online! LOL11122"


    Edited by 1 at 09/05/08 @ 19:28

  • skillian #16 4 years ago

    I know it's a popular game, but Burnout has always looked pretty boring to me, and crashing cars doesn't sound much fun either. I doubt it'll stop me playing Trackmania.

    Still I won't complain, arcadey racing games are kind of under-represented on the PC, so it'll be a welcome addition.

  • YourMessageHere #17 4 years ago

    Never thought I'd see the day. Well done whoever decided to do this. Are you sure about that quoted resolution though? That's taller than it is wide...

  • UncleLou #18 4 years ago

    Please EG hold on to that article that says one must have an internet connection and an intrusive check will be performed every 2 days.

    Yeah, I'd rather play it on an open system like a console. Christ, the naivety is blinding. :D

  • Chufty #19 4 years ago

    fukken w00t tbh

  • chiz #20 4 years ago

    Please EG hold on to that article that says one must have an internet connection and an intrusive check will be performed every 2 days."

    If that means getting PC gaming back on track, i really don't mind.

  • Ryze #21 4 years ago

    Sounds promising. Sounds like this is what PC versions should be, but that remains to be seen.

  • asphaltcowboy #22 4 years ago

    Crikey! That looks SEXY! I've already put +74 hours into Paradise on 360 and got my 100%... don't think I'd play through it all again! But that said, I can't wait for the DLC! :D

  • The_Pope #23 4 years ago

    QFT

  • ianegg #24 4 years ago

    Ummmmm.... Why would anyone be playing a game at that resolution? If I have 2 slightly-bigger-than-1080p monitors, I'm not going to have them one above the other. Unless they're working in Space Invaders, I don't think seeing more sky is going to be very helpful in a racing game. Looks bloody nice though.

  • dsmx #25 4 years ago

    Then put them next to each other and get super widescreen instead.

  • Waffleaber #26 4 years ago

    Restart event button mod? You know it makes sense.

  • Kladd1 #27 4 years ago

    Hell yeahhh
    Now I can play Burnout with my good old Playstion2 pad, I hope they add LAN and cool internet play into this new one.
    I hope they convert the older version too, at budget prices so more PC gamers can get into that good Burnout experience.

  • asphaltcowboy #28 4 years ago

    Restart event button mod? You know it makes sense.

    Gah! F*ck off!

  • Waldo #29 4 years ago

    One less reason to buy a console for me... ;)

  • Nithron #30 4 years ago

    Well, so far everyone in this comments thread seems to have been fairly pro-internet-check, so here's some reasons that it's actually a really bad idea:

    1: It doesn't prevent piracy. It'll only actually affect paying customers, because it'll get cracked pretty much right away. This has happened with every check of this kind, or any other kind, ever. See: Bioshock, Steam.

    2: Not everyone always has an internet connection. Say, if you wanna play your games on your laptop, away from a wallsocket, suddenly you can't. Or let's say you find yourself without a working connection, due to technical difficulties, which is when you most want to play offline games... Except now you can't, and worst of all, for no good reason whatsoever. This happened to me recently with Steam, and a borked university connection.

    3: If the company's servers go down, you suddenly can't play any more. The company doesn't even have to go bust. Recently, Microsoft just shut down their MSN music-service's authentication servers, and now anyone who bought DRMed music from them has just lost all of it, with no prospect of a refund.

    4: If it goes wrong, you lose your game, which you just paid for. Bioshock's authentication service did this to a few people, blocking them from installing using their serial number because they tried installing it too many times. I also have a friend who lost £30's worth of games on Steam.

    I'm not trying to start an argument here btw, just pointing out that the people previously complaining about it aren't just random hippies ranting against the tyranny of the man, they have geniune technical reasons to dislike the idea
    Edited by 3 at 11/05/08 @ 14:40

  • asphaltcowboy #31 4 years ago

    Pro-internet check? Are you in the right thread?

  • dsmx #32 4 years ago

    Authentication checks will only ever effect the legitimate purchaser so unless you can guarantee that it won't inconvenience them in any way do not waste money by putting them on. If you do all you'll succeed in doing is driving more people to pirate your game, as most pirates will not of purchased the legitimate copy. If your game is pirated a lot you should look at the reasons why people pirated and not listen to companies like securom who promise to cut piracy because I can guarantee anti piracy systems will not reduce piracy in any way. Any who says they do is delusional.

  • Ryze #33 4 years ago

    ^ What he said