Burnout Paradise

[Shin-Ra]

RESTART EVENT using the new option in the EASYDRIVE MENU (DPAD-RIGHT)

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Publisher: Electronic Arts
Developer: Criterion Games
Platform: PLAYSTATION®3 Computer Entertainment System
Genre: Driving
Players: Single-Player, 2-8 Players Online
Extras: Trophies, Custom Soundtrack, Webcam Mugshots with XMB Export, In-Game Community Website
Rating: ESRB “E10+” for Everyone 10+

Released on Blu-ray Disc and the PlayStation Store: OUT NOW



OVERVIEW

Welcome to Paradise City! Make action your middle name, as you control what happens when and where in Burnout™ Paradise! Immerse yourself in the open roads of Paradise City from the downtown streets through the hectic freeways to the sweeping mountain roads; the world is waiting to be explored!

Slam, Shunt and Wreck opponents in cross-town race events, where YOU decide the fastest route to the finish line. Hit the jumps and find shortcuts, smash through barriers and get to the places that other racers can't reach to get that competitive edge!

Meet your friends online with the revolutionary EasyDrive system that smashes through the tedium of lobbies and servers and cuts straight to the chase. Burnout Paradise provides the ultimate driving playground for you and your friends to play online on the PLAYSTATION®3.

FEATURES

• Explore Paradise – From big-surf beach, to downtown gridlock, there's over 30 square kilometers of the ultimate driving playground to explore from the get-go. Nothing is blocked off.
• Burnout Your Way – Just pull up to over 120 stoplights and spin your wheels to start one of five different events – the classic Race, Road Rage and Burning Route, and the all-new Stunt Run and Marked Man games.
• Instant Online – Burnout Paradise sets the new standard in online social gameplay. See your friends online with the EasyDrive Friends List and connect with them instantly without having to wait or exit your game.
• Team up or Takedown™ – Join forces with up to seven of your buddies to beat hundreds of online FreeBurn Challenges together or heat up the competition and go head-to-head in user created race routes.
• Road Rules – Make and break the rules of each road by setting speed and destruction records all over town. Track how many you own against your friends!
• Mugshots – Track the length and breadth of up to 2,500 online rivalries. In your moments of victory, grab mugshots of opponents who have connected PLAYSTATION®Eye cameras. Gloat over them even more in your trophy room or export them to the XrossMediaBar (XMB) for ultimate bragging rights!
• Speed, Speed and Even More Speed – The rebuilt, race-tuned Burnout game engine delivers intense speed boost gameplay at a super-smooth and super-fast 60 frames-per-second.
• Showtime: Crash Anywhere, Any Time – Feel like bringing chaos to the streets of Paradise? Send your car wrecking, spinning and scraping down the road, smashing through traffic and leaving a trail of expensive wreckage in your wake.
• Crash Deformation – Burnout Paradise features an all-new deformation technology that gives players an astounding close-up and slow-motion view of super-real destruction.
• Cars – Muscle cars, exotics, hot rods and even supercharged SUVs, engineered to look beautiful whether they're brand new or mashed into scrap. Choose from stunt, speed or aggression car classes, each built with their own unique boost ability to give you the upper hand for specific challenges. Shut down roaming rivals and rack up wins on your license to strut the streets in a wide selection of unique rides.
• Take it Aerial – Go airborne and pull boost-earning barrel rolls and spectacular mid-air spins. Find the hidden jumps to reach secret rooftop routes and 120 smashable Burnout Billboards.
• Driver's License – Start with a Learner's Permit then rack up wins to progress all the way up to a Burnout Elite Driver's License – the ultimate accolade for any safety-unconscious motorist.

Paradise on the PlayStation.Blog

[EvanX]

Damn! Those are some fine looking screenshots!

[ProvenFlipper]

This might be the first Burnout game that I actually buy. Those screens look amazing.

[Amon37]

If they have online racing, being able to take people down online will be sweet as hell.

[Unkn0wn47]

That does look very good. I like that a lot. Will have to add to my collection!

[Blu_Ray_UK2007]

Cant wait for this, I'll be buying it for sure.

[theknub]

the thing is, they have to code for the 360 to the lowest common denominator. this means assuming no hard drive, no hdmi, etc

[kknight]

Originally Posted by WeApOn

Awesome news. I have a question-- How come they say "one hell of a lot 1080p over HDMI, for instance, just isn’t possible on the Xbox 360 at this point"

With the new Elite(even though the majority of people wont have one), how come they cant do 1080p as well as they can on PS3? Wouldn't it be the same?

The 360 can't handle the fast 1080p graphics like it would on the PS3. The new elite series is nothing more then just an upgrade with HDMI output, 120 gb and a smaller chip inside to reduce the heat coming from it. The games are barely making it at times in 720p, I couldn't imagine it 1080p. Gears of War is using atleast 90% of the 360's power where as PS3 is barely using it's power... though Epic did mention they max out the power with that game so it's highly unlikely you're going to see games better then GoW on the 360. The PS3 is endless with it's supercomputer chip & blu-ray disc capacity (uncompress textures and audio).

[EvanX]

Originally Posted by Amon37

If they have online racing, being able to take people down online will be sweet as hell.

Why not? It wouldn't be the first time. I did it quite often on Burnout 3 & 4 for the PS2.

[WeApOn]

I understand. So its more like the GPU & CPU cant HANDLE the 1080p- It's not a matter of they can't do it. A game like Virtua Tennis isn't that demanding- so they have that in 1080p. But Burnout 5- that makes sense.

[ps3andlovinit]

Originally Posted by kknight

a smaller chip inside to reduce the heat coming from it.

If you meant 90nm down to 65nm chipset..that isn't happening AFAIK - unless something changed in the last few days.
So your getting a crippled HDMI connector (in comparison to the PS3) and a proprietary 120GB HDD for the 'Elite".

[Gamekid]

Those are the first screenshots that I have seen for burnout 5. It was mentioned that burnout 5 will not have menus and that you will be able to switch cars at any time, although we have yet to see how that happens. Burnout 5 looks to be a really good game. It's been awhile since burnout as burnout 4 was back in 04 or 05 I think.

[PeterTHX]

I believe NO game on the 360 is 1080p. They all render internally at 720p and then scaled to either 1080i or now 1080p. You're not getting 1080p detail the same way an upscaled DVD player isn't really HD.

[blitz6speed]

Originally Posted by PeterTHX

I believe NO game on the 360 is 1080p. They all render internally at 720p and then scaled to either 1080i or now 1080p. You're not getting 1080p detail the same way an upscaled DVD player isn't really HD.

NBA Home Court and Virtua Tennis 3 are supposedly both rendered at 1080p on the xbox 360 and the ps3.

[Amon37]

Originally Posted by EvanX

Why not? It wouldn't be the first time. I did it quite often on Burnout 3 & 4 for the PS2.

I did know that had that for PS2. I never used it online....lmao

[DV92Camaro]

This sounds like a dumb question. So this means the regular 360 cannot truely do 1080p? So HDMI is for 7.1 sound and TRUE 1080P? It confuses me when people say the 360 can do 1080p. Someone correct me here. My brain is fried.

[WriteSimply]

Originally Posted by DV92Camaro

This sounds like a dumb question. So this means the regular 360 cannot truely do 1080p?

1080p only through VGA/RGB cables. I'm not sure if the add-on gives 1080p HD-DVD using VGA/RGB though. Games are at 1080p.

So HDMI is for 7.1 sound and TRUE 1080P? It confuses me when people say the 360 can do 1080p. Someone correct me here. My brain is fried.

Quite correct but games do not need HDCP protection so using either component or VGA/RGB, you can get 1080p.


fuad

[Shin-Ra]

Nearly all of the EDI PS3 downloadable games are 1080p too.

[Ascended_Saiyan]

Originally Posted by DV92Camaro

This sounds like a dumb question. So this means the regular 360 cannot truely do 1080p? So HDMI is for 7.1 sound and TRUE 1080P? It confuses me when people say the 360 can do 1080p. Someone correct me here. My brain is fried.

From what I understand, Xbox 360 can do simple 1080p games (like Virtua Tennis), but their 10MB (?) buffer and processing power prevents them from having complex situations going on in 1080p. The Xbox 360 should not have 7.1 surround from what's listed in the specs.

Currently the Xbox 360 just upscales to 1080p through VGA and component cables (and soon to be done through HDMI with the Elite).

[Wheelman1970]

My favourite part of the Burnout series have always been the crashes. Burnout 3 had an amazing 100 crash scenarios which I spent hours playing. Let's hope that feature comes with the next generation game - Destruction and Carnage is king.