Three new Burnout modes unveiled News

The one with a restart option?

:oD

/interest rises

Oh, after GTA is out, then?

/interest wanes perceptibly

Attention everyone! The words "restart option" have been included in the article, thereby negating the need to have 412 posts uttering this statement!

Huh. Restart option.

It doesnt need a restart option

Can i have a restart option on EVERYTHING please.? Like today - I'd like to restart my day. It's been rubbish and I'd like to give it another go.
Another fan of restart option: Zimbabwe Election Officials
OH NO HE DI'NT!!!
:D
/so very bored today

These modes soundl like they are going to add to the already immense amount of fun I have had with this online.

Gaming is rarely so joy-prolific as it has, quite unexpectedly, been with Paradise.

Brilliant news! :D :D :D Yes! I hope it's free. :)

but no crash junctions.

now i wish my 360 had not rrod'd on me :/

Fantastic news!

And the heated debate... restarts.

this game probably won't go back in my disc drive unless they but crash mode in put back in.

The game was great, but more of the same is not incentive enough to go back, what was there got tired before the end as is.

crash mode + restart option!

"The one with a restart option?"

Amen to that!

Online Marked Man!! Hurray!!!

Is there some sort of technical limitation preventing an 'every-man-for-himself' online Road Rage mode?

It's been noticeably missing since the third game.

Ha i still haven't worked out how to get online, it said something about registering... something something. wtf

YES online Marked Man!

When you consider that EA will turn off the servers with the arrival of the next Burnout iteration you have to wonder what all the fuss is about.

They have not killed Revenge as far as I know. And so what, considering that all of the players have moved on long before that?

I'm not bothered by the lack of restart option, and the new modes sound aces. :) What I would love though is a rotating mini-map....surely that can't be too hard to add.

\o/ \o/ \o/

@NumberNone
I agree - rotating map would be very helpful

Shame they didnt just get it right to start with
and why do burnout games never have steering wheel support?

@DAN:SOLO

Err... it does, doesn't it? I'm sure I saw an advert relating to the wheel in BOP on XBL...

EDIT: http://www.criteriongames.com/contactus/... (scroll right to the bottom)

A rotating map is something they are looking into developing, according to their latest podcast.

No change to Crash mode (in fact it doesn't exist, Showtime is not Crash mode according to them.)

No restart - it's not a bug. It's an open world. I think that aspect is an absolute passion of Criterion and the 'no loading' world is here to stay, forever.

Wich is a stupid design choice to make.
Open world is all about player choice: if he/she wants to explore, they will do so. If a person just wants to open the map screen and click on an event, they should be able to do so aswel (once you've found them).
Espcially given the fact that certain cars are only suitable for certain events and vice versa.

At the beginning of the game, that doesn't matter so much since there are so many events to pick from, there's always something going on. BUT the further along you get, the more anoying it is to have to drive all the way to the few events that are left, or you have to slog all the way back to start of a burning route.

Makes the whole "no loading" thing rather bullshit. Having to drive to the start point is the same as sitting through a load screen and often takes longer.
As the game does have instant starts with a short load time in the online mode.
Wich just makes the whole thing more anoying: all the fucntionality is already in the game, they are just forcing something else onto you.

And it's starting to get on my nerves. An anoying flaw in an otherwise highly enjoyable game.

@Freek:

"Open world is all about player choice: if he/she wants to explore, they will do so. If a person just wants to open the map screen and click on an event, they should be able to do so aswel (once you've found them). "

Not so. Look at GTA or Crackdown, which are pretty much the definitive open-world games I can think of at the moment - you can't instantly jump to missions or race events at will. You have to travel through the gameworld to get to them. Explain to me how this is different from the system in place in Paradise?

can i have some enhancements to the off-line game please? not restart. this online stuff is all very well, but it's ultimately just a trap to keep folks from selling the game on ebay when they're done with single player.

still have 25 more points on my licence until elite, but after that i'm not sure driving around looking for the last half-dozen or so crash-barriers i missed, or 2 super-jumps, is going to keep me interested.

more maps, more races, more cars. no restart tho, that's for pussies. no, it really is.

@saladin - you are so right, it hurts. some people just don't, and will never, get it.

although, i must admit, doing burning routes, when i've done almost every other challenge on the map, that run from up in the hills to the goddam harbour, and missing by 2 seconds, and then having to drive aaaalllll the way back again, sometimes tests my resolve. sometimes.

no restart tho, that's for pussies. no, it really is.

Nothing left to say after this.

Don't they sound like 3 modes that should really have been in the original £40 package?

...which nobody complained about when they weren't there. Honestly, they're damned if they do and damned if they don't. 350 co-op challenges and people aren't 'happy when they just want the same old, same old (which no doubt they would whinge about anyway.) Besides, the update is free - there's really no right to moan, imo.

Criterion (and EA) (I know! I know!) should be applauded for devoting a whole year to developing BP for a whole year of updates, not just a couple of bolted on DLC's. The sooner people stop expecting the moon on a stick.

Yeah, what AgentBalti said!

Nice new modes, I'd certainly enjoy them.