RS Links: the unreleased Burnout Paradise’s content

RS Links: the unreleased Burnout Paradise’s content

Over at the official Burnout / Criterion blog, they wrote a post about planned Download Content that was meant to be released for Burnout Paradise, as new tracks, modes and vehicles, but for some reasons they never finish them.

We were very interested in the whole concept of downloadable content, and we knew that we wanted to approach it very differently and push it as far as we could. A downloadable Island was started almost immediately after the main game was built.

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We did have ambitious plans for a series of Islands. One was going to be purely off-road based. Hence we created the ‘Dust Storm’ dune buggy in anticipation for that. Our original dreams for Paradise were to create a series of Islands, all connected to Paradise City and each would focus on a different style of racing game. One Island was going to be completely circuit based – and be all marked up like a modern Formula One circuit!

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Planes. A lot of Burnout fans already know about this – as we showed flying around in a live podcast. It was really cool to be able to see Paradise City from the air. It did not happen because of the way the game world was built. The city was never meant to be seen from such viewpoints. Think of it like a film set, a very big film set – meant to be seen from certain camera angles and not others.

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The Moon! Again, completely true. Someone on the team said that ‘players want the moon on a stick when it comes to DLC’ We thought that was funny and thought we’d do it. The actual surface of the real Moon was modelled and it was drive-able. Lunar Challenges would have been totally unexpected – as would have been zero gravity Takedowns and Challenges.

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Time Travel – Not many know about this, but it was discussed. On a certain day, a time portal would have opened on the Island. When you jumped through, you would have found yourself on Big Surf, at another point in history. Maybe the Wild West…you could have done some Challenges and then jumped back.

Thanks to Robert Seddon for the link!


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5 thoughts on “RS Links: the unreleased Burnout Paradise’s content

  1. SezZ

    They actually cut off Trucks from final release and in final release is smaller map then in beta you can see differences of map here: http://www.theaveragegamer.com/2007/12/23/burnout-paradise-official-paradise-city-map/
    Btw: Big surf island was in beta version of city build but they later cut off. Later they changed that island from island with airport to island with ramps, hotel and dust and released as dlc for what we must pay money (actually in 1.9 version of game (ps3) is big surf island but to get there you need but license/permission to get in big surf island in game.

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