Three new Burnout modes unveiled

By Ellie Gibson Published 16 April, 2008

Including Online Road Rage.

Criterion has revealed three new modes for Burnout Paradise that'll be released as part of the forthcoming "Cagney" update.

First up is Online Stunt Run - a maximum of eight players compete for the highest score within a two minute time limit. In Online Marked Man, one player picked at random must reach their target without getting hit.

The third mode is Online Road Rage, where one team tries to reach checkpoints while the other gets on with the takedowns. For full details on all the new modes, visit Criterion's website.

"This is just the start - we aim to bring you many new Freeburn game modes covering different themes and play styles," says Criterion.

"Over the next 12 months, we're going to transform the Burnout Paradise you know and love into the Burnout Paradise you only ever dreamed of!" The one with a restart option?

There's no word on when the Cagney update will be released yet. Bogart, however, which will feature various "gameplay experience enhancements", is out on April 24th.

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Comments (35) Latest comment 4 years ago

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  • Agent_Llama #1 4 years ago

    The one with a restart option?

    :oD

  • Quine #2 4 years ago

    /interest rises

    Oh, after GTA is out, then?

    /interest wanes perceptibly

  • evilbert #3 4 years ago

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


    Edited by 1 at 16/04/08 @ 12:17

  • thomasbeff #4 4 years ago

    Huh. Restart option.

  • Bumhug360 #5 4 years ago

    It doesnt need a restart option

  • Madafunkola #6 4 years ago

    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

  • agparrot #7 4 years ago

    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.

  • Razz #8 4 years ago

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

  • bivith #9 4 years ago

    but no crash junctions.

  • pikemon #10 4 years ago

    now i wish my 360 had not rrod'd on me :/
    Edited by 1 at 16/04/08 @ 12:38

  • asphaltcowboy #11 4 years ago

    Fantastic news!

  • Beano #12 4 years ago

    And the heated debate... restarts.

  • myiagros #13 4 years ago

    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.

  • mazzl #14 4 years ago

    crash mode + restart option!

  • Artemis_Matsas #15 4 years ago

    "The one with a restart option?"

    Amen to that!

  • Ignatius_Cheese #16 4 years ago

    Online Marked Man!! Hurray!!!

  • Ryze #17 4 years ago

    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.

  • Spanky #18 4 years ago

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

  • BradMillette #19 4 years ago

    YES online Marked Man!

  • jack_klugman #20 4 years ago

    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.

  • jlaakso #21 4 years ago

    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?

  • NumberNone #22 4 years ago

    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.
    Edited by 1 at 16/04/08 @ 14:45

  • Retroid #23 4 years ago

    \o/ \o/ \o/

  • Madafunkola #24 4 years ago

    @NumberNone
    I agree - rotating map would be very helpful

  • DAN.E.B #25 4 years ago

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

  • asphaltcowboy #26 4 years ago

    @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://ww w.criteriongames.com/contactus/... (scroll right to the bottom)
    Edited by 1 at 16/04/08 @ 16:23

  • AgentBalti #27 4 years ago

    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.

  • Freek #28 4 years ago

    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.
    Edited by 3 at 16/04/08 @ 18:22

  • Saladin #29 4 years ago

    @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?

  • justsomeone #30 4 years ago

    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.

  • justsomeone #31 4 years ago

    @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.

  • GordonCaladan #32 4 years ago

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

    Nothing left to say after this.

  • chicknstu #33 4 years ago

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

  • AgentBalti #34 4 years ago

    ...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.

  • DFawkes #35 4 years ago

    Yeah, what AgentBalti said!

    Nice new modes, I'd certainly enjoy them.