Burnout Paradise's Big Surf Island dated

By Robert Purchese Published 29 May, 2009

Jump in, up and all around in June.

Criterion Games has announced an 11th June release date for Big Surf Island on PS3 and Xbox 360.

This is the next beefy premium update for Burnout Paradise that finally offers a bridge out of the city to an area offering the biggest jumps in the game and a new sense of freedom. There's no word on cost, yet.

There's a lovely video of the content over on the official Criterion website.

Despite being released at the very beginning of 2008, Burnout Paradise continues to regularly expand as Criterion provides a shining example of what post-release DLC can offer.

Head over to our original Burnout Paradise review to see what the foundations were like, then cruise over to the official website for a list of what else is on offer.

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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 (21) Latest comment 3 years ago

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  • BBIAJ #1 3 years ago

    About time too!

  • GamesProgrammer Verified Games Team Programmer, Eutechnyx Ltd. #2 3 years ago

    Wooooooo finaly, cant wait for more excuses to go back into paradise

  • SYS64738 #3 3 years ago

    Dare i say it but...

    What about the PC?

  • beastmaster #4 3 years ago

    Got to get me this! May be expensive but worth it.

  • RobertFoster #5 3 years ago

    I'm looking forward to this, but somewhat worried they've not mentioned the price yet... might mean it's really high :(

  • Ignatius_Cheese #6 3 years ago

    Guesses on price vary between 800 (no chance), 1200 (probable) to 1600 (pricey but not unlikely...)

    This however is a definite purchase. What with the additional play area, events, freeburn and timed challenges AND 9 new vehicles, this should be value for money, unlike Cops and Robbers...

  • TuftyMcTavish #7 3 years ago

    I hope it has LOTS of new freeburn challenges as I really, really like those. Not just 10 per player range (2, 3, 4, etc).

  • Midnight_Raven #8 3 years ago

    Unless this costs 1,000,000,000 points, it's a must-have for me.

  • beastmaster #9 3 years ago

    Depends on what's on offer really as to the price. I would suspect same cost at Lost & Damned.

    With this and the new COD:WAW map, June is looking good.

  • TheRook21 #10 3 years ago

    the island itself will have to be free... the cars and events on the other hand... that may be charged for... but who knows... perhaps they realised they have screwed enough people over they will do the DLC for a much cheaper price?

  • Ignatius_Cheese #11 3 years ago

    The Rook21 - but who knows... perhaps they realised they have screwed enough people over they will do the DLC for a much cheaper price?

    Bwwwahahahahahahahhaahahahaaaa!!!

    Sorry... ;o)

  • Razz #12 3 years ago

    Hehhehhehehehe!!!!

    /runs around squeling like a little boy

  • danathjo #13 3 years ago

    Deal if it's £9.99 or under..might have to think about it otherwise
    haven't bought any of the priced stuff yet but this should be worth it, judging by the their last vod/podcast it looks like a blast

    on a side note, is it worth purchasing any of the retro cars, had my eye on the 'delorian' but not sure what it adds apart from a nice paint job

  • bodypopper #14 3 years ago

    Hmmm. Gotta wonder why they didn't hold off on releasing the special edition of the game until this was ready.
    Just have to get round to finishing the original now. It's fine but I still prefer the pick up and play factor of the early games. Probably because I don't give a monkey's about achievements etc.
    Edited by 1 at 29/05/09 @ 12:48

  • asphaltcowboy #15 3 years ago

    /please lord, don't let them take the piss as they have with their car DLC...

    @danathjo: if you're going to get any of the DLC cars, that's the one to get! Looks awesome, has a hover mode, it's fast and can stand up to a fair bit of punishment!
    Edited by 1 at 29/05/09 @ 13:43

  • homerramone #16 3 years ago

    1600pts - if not 2400

  • mashk #17 3 years ago

    please let it be FREE. : )

  • GamesProgrammer Verified Games Team Programmer, Eutechnyx Ltd. #18 3 years ago

    the island will be FREE, but you will have to pay to play the single player events for that island, this is my best guess as the wont want to fragment there online community between the haves and have nots

  • gallow #19 3 years ago

    Definite purchase for me as it seems to focus on what I liked about Burnout - freedom, exploration, stunts and jumps. I am not a fan of driving games but I really enjoyed this game and a lesser extent GTA4 (the combat put me off that game in the end). The racing in Burnout was the one thing I avoided as I was not interested in it.

  • smelly #20 3 years ago

    YAY!!!! They announce this just as i hit 100% on the jumps/billboards and smashes and have gotten my elite license!

    YAY!!!!!

    BEST... GAME.. THIS.. GEN... HANDS... DOWN.

  • smelly #21 3 years ago

    "perhaps they realised they have screwed enough people over"


    How did they "Screw people over" they provided almost 2 years worth of FREE downloadable content before they started charging for unecessary but fun cars...