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We're now ready to unleash the Rai-jin on the rest of the world - it's now finally available to everyone in Paradise City.
It may be the fastest car in Burnout Paradise, but it's not for the faint-hearted. it's a thoroughbred race machine - a true test of your driving skills!
To access this online-only car, join or host any online game and head for the nearest Junkyard. It's located at the far right of your vehicle collection. Don't forget, when you leave the online session, you leave the car.
Last night in NYC, EA showed some upcoming DLC for Burnout Paradise. Planned for early fall, the DLC will add motorcycles, a day/night cycle and weather effects to the open-world racing game.
And, most incredibly, it’ll be free!
In keeping with their “Year of Paradise” initiative, EA and Critierion will be updating Burnout Paradise with new content throughout the year. Most recently, they released another free addition to the game, which added new online challenges and new vehicles (including a beast of an SUV), but that’s nothing compared to what’s coming.
I went hands-on with one of the bikes that’ll be in the “Davis” update, and was pretty impressed with the results. Visually it was definitely on par with the other vehicles in Burnout Paradise, looking solid and powerful. It’s also got an actual rider on the back of it, which is contrary to the driverless cars in the rest of Burnout (as a means of keeping its “E” rating). The rider does force them to tone down the crashes, though, as you won’t see him tumbling off the bike when you run into anything. Generally the rider just disappears and you’ll see the bike skidding across the ground, but it’s much faster than any of the crash cutscenes in the cars.
As a rule, the bikes are about speed, and less about stunts. They’ve got no boost meter but are faster than most of the cars in the game (even when boosting). It makes for some pretty intense races, and you’ll definitely be able to demolish your old Road Rules times...which is why Criterion added specific time trials to bikes.
Handling on the bikes is suprisingly easy to get ahold of. The bike I was given is apparently the fastest in the game, and within less than a minute I was making hairpin turns and flying down side streets without too much difficulty. Leaning into turns is important, and holding forward allows you to tuck your body in for extra speed. You can also lean back and pull off a wheelie. Not terribly useful, except in some of the challenges, but it’s still neat!
They’ve also added time trials for both day and night. At night there are considerably fewer cars on the road, so the game becomes less about dodging and more about just barreling down at full speed. You have complete control of the clock, though, so if you’d rather just focus on night races, you can set it to permanently stay at night for as long as you want.
After the release of the “Davis” update, Burnout Paradise will be adding a brand new island to race on (planned for later in the year). There are also hints of planes being added to Paradise City. No pricing has been announced for those add-ons yet, but we sure wouldn’t mind EA sticking with the “free” model of the motorcycle add-on! Keep checking back, as we should be getting a look at more of the add-ons in the coming weeks.
We hope you enjoy the new gameplay we're introducing with our Cagney update. The next update will be the Burnout Paradise Bikes Pack next month.