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Dude, we’re trying to hold in our excitement for this latest DLC release from a Major Publisher. These guys are so totally on top of their game right now. You know that awesome game we gave a 11 out of 10 to last week; well guess what? This week they’re releasing a DLC pack for the game. It will include 5 new multiplayer maps!
Actually all five of the maps were on the disc, so the DLC is a re-lighting of the existing maps with some new weapon spawns. This will set you back 600 nano points, which is a great price IMO.
There’s a new DLC pack coming out next week for this game, but we’re under embargo with the publisher. Deets to follow…
In an industry that is over-run with hyperbole, very few games actually deserve the hype their publisher’s marketing teams work to build and perpetuate. Burnout Paradise, since January 2008, has been one of the few games that not only has lived up to the hype of being one of the best arcade racers of all time, but has also been part of changing the console gaming landscape in terms of downloadable content (DLC).
The release of the first of the free content, named “Cagney Pack” in 2008 contained new vehicles, new challenges, and new Freeburn Challenges that were quite substantial. The “Bikes Pack” that followed, virtually gave us a free motorcycle game. And all along the way we got music updates and patches that proved Criterion’s commitment to the franchise. For an initial outlay of approximately $60.00 Burnout Paradise just kept getting better and better. While Burnout fans rejoiced over Criterion’s apparent self-destructive commitment to giving us all the free stuff we could ever need, some of us did start to wonder when the party was going to end.
And end it did. The early packs of paid DLC came in the form of cursed little micro-transactions for specific vehicles, then came the Party Pack, and then the Ultimate Box that was launched with the PC release of Burnout Paradise. Most recently, Criterion took what may be a first step towards expanding on not just, the feature set but also the playable area of Paradise City in the form of “Big Surf Island.” Read more →
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