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Ahead of full release in February.

Criterion has decided to offer free trials of Burnout Paradise on PC ahead of the full release in February.

This demo will present the whole of Paradise City, limited only by time, allowing testers to do just about anything and go more or less anywhere. That includes multiplayer, where up to eight can race together online.

PC owners will also be able to see how well the game runs on their setup.

The trial will be hosted by the Criterion and EA websites, and the developer also plans to shift "millions" of discs out into the world, apparently. The trial won't require a disc to run, so these can be spread to friends like germs.

When February rolls around, Burnout Paradise PC will come complete with all of the content released for the console versions so far: the Cagney update, Bikes Pack and Party Pack.

The desktop version will receive all future content, too, like the brand new island area that Criterion detailed recently.

Burnout Paradise PC, incidentally, features beefed-up monitor resolutions - some of the first shots were captured in 1920x2400, which is a complicated sum for a human brain (like ours) to tackle.

Head over to our Burnout Paradise gamepage to keep up with the latest developments.

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ChthonicEcho #1 3 years ago

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So what will stop Reloaded or Razor1911 from eliminating the time limit and essentially make the demo the full game?
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photoboy #2 3 years ago

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Have they done this like an Xbox Live Arcade demo? i.e. you download the demo which is just the full game without the unlock flag. Then as soon as you decide you like the game you don't have to do anything other than pay to unlock and you then have the full thing. That's a pretty clever way of doing things if they have.

If they've come to their senses and added a "restart race" option to the pause menu I may well buy this. If not, I'll just carry on playing 3 and Domination...
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mcbi4kh2 #3 3 years ago

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@ChthonicEcho
The same thing stopping them cracking the full game I suppose. Nothing.

Edited by 2 at 09/12/08 @ 14:34
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UncleLou #4 3 years ago

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I am not sure how the game is structured, but I guess the game will only have a handful of racing events, so you're left with the full city with not much to do in unless you buy it.
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Hunam #5 3 years ago

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Sounds like a return to shareware to me.
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TurboBailey #6 3 years ago

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sweet!

I will be trying this - loved this when i had it for my PS3
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whatsthecoo #7 3 years ago

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Photoboy

They have added a restart option for the pc version. See the latest Criterion games video podcast...
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crozon #8 3 years ago

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well one of the big draws to the game is multiplayer. you can't crack that
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TelefonHonda #9 3 years ago

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I might even have to buy this, I've always liked Burnouts.
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Darkjinxter #10 3 years ago

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Complete with free Securerom I expect
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dsmx #11 3 years ago

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and of course EA will put securom on it even though it doesn't need it.
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Feanor #12 3 years ago

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Of course, they put it on the free Spore demo.
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Ryze #13 3 years ago

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Excellent - but this will NOT work on my PC!

Hopefully they'll also patch the 360 version with a restart race option, or a big arrow to point towards the finish-line, or a rotating minimap, or to have the option of some restricted route races, or to fix the right analogue stick's x-axis, or to allow previously visited locations to be warped to immediately, or...
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Fernando #14 3 years ago

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like Criterion or not, gotta respect their work ethic
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schnide #15 3 years ago

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Ryze! Good job that man. I kept wondering why I couldn't get my head around the demo and it's because.. I couldn't get my head around the map. WHY oh WHY doesn't it rotate? That silly little thing killed the enjoyment alone - I couldn't figure out where the fuck I was going.
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Ryze #16 3 years ago

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Why don't people notice this shit themselves?

/pats self on back

/bows
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Red-Moose #17 3 years ago

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I had no idea companies even still did time limited demos. What is this, 1987? It's a fuckign single register! You guys should be using Securom!
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offside5 #18 3 years ago

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When will the free trials begin?
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