No bikes for Burnout until September

By Robert Purchese Published 6 August, 2008

New patch delayed, but sounds exciting.

Criterion has pushed the motorbike patch for Burnout Paradise back from August to September, causing a little tear of sadness to trickle from our eye.

The team is adding the finishing touches to the free Davis update now, according to producer Jeremy Chubb and the US PlayStation blog.

When the patch does arrive, we can expect not only bikes - an FV1100 and Japanese Firehawk to name a couple - but also a day-night cycle that has more than a visual impact.

As soon as the sun goes down, Burnout Rides, which take you through checkpoints all around the city, become Midnight Rides that use completely separate routes.

On top of that are 70 specific challenges for bikers; 35 of those are the kind of timed, multi-part affairs added in Cagney, the free July update.

Criterion has plenty more free updates planned for Burnout Paradise, including the addition of biplanes and whole new islands to explore. The online support is certainly impressive; the only drawback so far has been delays for Xbox 360 updates due to technical hiccups.

Head over to our Burnout Paradise Davis gallery for a glimpse at the very lovely looking bikes.

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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 (29) Latest comment 4 years ago

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  • seasidebaz #1 4 years ago

    I'm guessing it's been pushed back to get the trophy patch in there this month instead...

  • GamesProgrammer Verified Games Team Programmer, Eutechnyx Ltd. #2 4 years ago

    Said in there Podcast that trophys would not be in Davis, But if the patch has been delayed for other reasons theres a chance they might rethink that i guess.

    Unless they got a lot of flack for saying the trophies wouldnt be in davis and changed there minds but i doubt that.

  • Gnort #3 4 years ago

    Are Criterion adding all this good stuff to the game for free?

    That's a fantastic effort in this age of "death by a thousand cuts" micropayments for DLC.

  • Freelancepolice #4 4 years ago

    Much love for criterion
    Edited by 1 at 06/08/08 @ 09:42

  • asphaltcowboy #5 4 years ago

    The patch they just released is free to download. Davis will be 'premium' DLC. But it's meant to add some 15 hours of gameplay, so it's not really all that bad. Even if it didn't, it'd probably been worth it. Played Cagney yesterday with some of the EGers and it was muchos awesome! Impromptu Burnout Friday/Tuesday FTW!

  • GamesProgrammer Verified Games Team Programmer, Eutechnyx Ltd. #6 4 years ago

    @asphaltcowboy

    Is burnout friday on PS3 or 360, i would like to join in but i only have the PS3 verison

  • asphaltcowboy #7 4 years ago

    360 I'm afraid! No problem with you being the founder member of the PS3 version!

  • agparrot #8 4 years ago

    Yeah am always excited for more BoP content, but really it isi going to take a while to explore the full gamut of what Cagney has to offer, so I'm not worried about it coming later in the year.

    Having played and loved pre and post cagney Burnout Paradise, it will probably be the first time that I happily buy DLC - I really am moved to give something back for what has been an excellent, and most importantly fun, multiplayer experience.

  • nbnz #9 4 years ago

    @asphaltcowboy. This update is FREE as confirmed by Criterion themselves yesterday on the official PS blog.

    [link url=http://blog.us.playstation.com/2 008/08/05/paradise-city-choppers-burnouts-bikes/
    ]http://bl og.us.playstation.com/2008/08/0...[/link]

    Here’s what Burnout Paradise players can look forward to, when they get the FREE Burnout Paradise Bikes Pack next month. (This is the pack formerly know by the codename “Davis”.)

  • Garulon #10 4 years ago

    Cagney was totally worth the weight.

    Also: Biplanes? :o

  • asphaltcowboy #11 4 years ago

    @nbnz: Yeah this is confusing. According to PlayStation blog, it's free. I've yet to find that printed anywhere on the criterion website yet!

    EDIT: Ah, I see this come from a producer at Criterion. Guess it's official then! :)
    Edited by 1 at 06/08/08 @ 10:40

  • seasidebaz #12 4 years ago

    Said in there Podcast that trophys would not be in Davis

    Yeah I know, they said Trophies would be a completely seperate patch, ie not in Davis or Eastwood.

    It's perfectly feasible that Sony asked them to get the trophy patch out first and delay the bikes for a couple of weeks, which in turn would Microsoft to actually pass the thing.

  • Beano #13 4 years ago

    "Are Criterion adding all this good stuff to the game for free?"

    No.

  • asphaltcowboy #14 4 years ago

    " "Are Criterion adding all this good stuff to the game for free?"

    No."

    But also apparently yes. As has been discussed already!

  • nbnz #15 4 years ago

    @Beano

    This update (the Bikes Pack aka Davis) is Free. Read the official Playstation Blog posted yesterday by a Producer from Criterion Games.

  • Machetazo #16 4 years ago

    I'm looking forward to them posting media of the new weather system that will also be added:

    "If you’re used to seeing Paradise City swathed in blazing sunshine, you’re in for a surprise. We’ve also introduced a dynamic weather system to change the feel of the city – another Burnout first." - playstation.blog

    Great stuff around, and continuing to be added for BP.

  • agparrot #17 4 years ago

    This is the second lot of comments without people indignantly asking for a restart option, won't somebody oblige? ;)

  • Nithron #18 4 years ago

    Real-time day/night cycles kind of annoy me in games. The trouble is, that I rarely get to play games during the day, so as a consequence I end up only ever playing a game at night.

    Hence the party full of nighttime pokémon...

  • Machetazo #19 4 years ago

    This won't be a real-time day/night cycle. They did have it running on the Criterion web cam, to demonstrate over 24 hours that it was possible, but the official release will have an accelerated cycle, in operation.

    @agparrot: I found that it wasn't really necessary. You only travel the largest distances in races, later on, when you have the faster cars available, to cut down retread time, anyway, all the while you're learning the route. I found myself begrudgingly agreeing with the devs decision, in the end, partly because of the pay-off when you do beat the event. This doesn't stop it from being annoying at times, but there's usually something else nearby, or online, that can be tried if you just can't be bothered to return to the start.
    Edited by 1 at 06/08/08 @ 12:35

  • agparrot #20 4 years ago

    @Machetazo

    I couldn't agree more - the absence of such a restart feature didn't bother me one bit. Despite the fact I railed a little at Alex Wards arrogance over the whole game, I eventually ended up not just agreeing with him begrudgingly, but admiring what they have done with Paradise, and being one of its staunchest supporters.

    I'm just amazed that no miserable people arrived in this nor the cagney-was-late comments to bitch about no restart option, and ;) winked the suggestion that somebody might, for fun.

  • Ignatius_Cheese #21 4 years ago

    Midnight routes...? Now that's something I hadn't heard about. This game just gets better and better!

  • CARL05 #22 4 years ago

    I guess it is just left to me then:

    I WANT RESTART OPTION, NOW!!!

    ;)


    Oh, and kudos to Criterion for continuing to make these updates free. Now if only the rest of EA's products where to do the same thing - FIFA being the main example with it's small yearly updates for £40!!!
    Edited by 1 at 06/08/08 @ 13:25

  • agparrot #23 4 years ago

    \o/

    Thanks Carlo5.

    All this, and an extra island and stuff still to come in Eastwood.

    What marvellous developer support. Imagine if Crackdown had had 3 or 4 major updates like this, we'd have far less time to be playing Paradise.

    /falls into gaming trance.

  • dryden555 #24 4 years ago

    September really means December but still nice news

  • Bits #25 4 years ago

    Aren't the additional islands going to be premium? Or has that changed since it was announced?

  • Anthony_UK #26 4 years ago

    Traded this in a while ago now, awesome game but it was just one of those that I never got round to playing........A major addiction to COD4 just one reason!

    But I am really suprised by the support this has been given! New Islands, Bikes, day and night time cycles amongst other things, I must admit untill today i've not been paying that much attention, but I must say I really am tempted to pick this up again, and that is something i've never done before!

  • Ryze #27 4 years ago

    Hopefully they'll invert the right stick's x axis in the next update...

    /waits...

  • Feanor #28 4 years ago

    They don't give you the option to do that already?

  • SeesThroughAll #29 4 years ago

    The Cagney update was a great upgrade to the existing game, but the upcoming update is set to completely change BP. And all this for free!

    Certainly puts all that overpriced DLC in perspective...