Comments on: Gigantodemo: Burnout Paradise

By: 00 Buck

00 Buck — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 08:33:54 +0000

I bought a Saitek P2500 Rumble game pad for my PC, they make any kind of controller you could ever want for PC. And for the guy who said it just didn’t feel right using his XBox360′s controller with his computer. What’s the difference? Same fkin thing! XBox360 is a computer. Your just too set in your ways and are not used to a change. Move your computer in front of your couch then, cause it sounds like an environmental problem.

By: Garrett

Garrett — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 02:40:25 +0000

@Argyle Warrior: it sounds like you’re downloading an error page of some sort; try opening it in Notepad or changing the extension to .html to see what it says. This is probably caused by your browser not retaining the required referrer information. For some sites you will need to enable cookies before files can be properly downloaded.

Having said that, for files this massive I’d strongly suggest using a download manager. I use GetRight, but it isn’t free (the unregistered version uses nag screens like WinRAR etc., although not nearly as frequently); FlashGet is a good free alternative. Download managers will never drop the file before the download is complete (which browsers will). In the case of GetRight if you download a web page rather than the expected file you’ll be given the option of opening it to see what’s wrong. The default configuration of both GetRight and FlashGet should be able to correctly pick up referrer information from your browser, although you may still need cookies enabled for some sites.

By: Phil H

Phil H — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 02:12:21 +0000

@Y3K-Bug – You’ll need to get the wireless adapter(~$20), but once you’ve got that, you’re golden.

I’d absolutely love to pick up Paradise on the PC… only I’ve already got it on the PS3 and can’t justify buying it at full price again. Doesn’t mean I won’t in the future, but I’ll wait until I can (legitimately) find it on the cheap, preferably on Steam.

The new Party Pack’s visual refresh seems to have made things a lot clearer visually for me as I’ve been tearing through some spots that I’d been having trouble with before, but that might all be in my head.

By: Argyle Warrior

Argyle Warrior — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 00:26:28 +0000

Anyone having a problem with the download? I keep on getting a 4kb Zip file that won’t open by my multitude of unzipping programs.

By: bansama

bansama — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 09:38:19 +0000

I hope Criterion/EA gets rewarded for this effort.

I really want to buy this. As I said above, I’m sold on the game, sadly though, the EA store has a some unspecified Server Error which appears to only affect this game — preventing me from purchasing it. Blah. I hope they fix that next week.

By: Y3k-Bug

Y3k-Bug — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 00:01:45 +0000

I own a 360 controller for my PC games, and I don’t even own a game console.

Also, does the wireless 360 controller work for PC as well?

By: The_B

The_B — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 16:57:40 +0000

To be fair – the only difference between a wired XBox 360 controller and a Wired 360 controller ‘for Windows’ is the packaging.

By: unclelou

unclelou — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 14:41:33 +0000

espy:

I realise I am too late, but you don’t need to make an account to play offline. I’ve played it for a couple of hours before I could be bothered to try it online.

By: kuddles

kuddles — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 13:40:26 +0000

I was too impatient to see if Steam would eventually get it, so I bought it off Direct2Drive.

I must say I’m highly impressed, they’ve done a hell of a job optimizing this thing for the PC. I can run it with everything on high and 8xAA. Also, I was running FRAPS with it and the game seems to have it’s own vsync/triple buffering built in, since it ran smooth as butter with no screen tearing.

As for the game, I’m liking it a lot. It’s probably the first arcade racer I’ve actually gotten into in a long time.

I hope Criterion/EA gets rewarded for this effort. I have a friend who works in marketing for a game publisher who told me that the reason there’s so many bad ports of console-to-PC games is because the cost of doing a good port is much higher and yet the increase in sales is negligible, so making a decent PC port is actually seen as a bad business decision. It’ll make me sad if he’s right.

By: Po0py

Po0py — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 10:19:04 +0000

I second Jims recommendation of the 360 controller for your pc. They just work. I have the wireless dongle and use a genuine 360 controller and not one of those wired games for windows ones. Still works. Even on Vista 64bit.

By: Simon Jones

Simon Jones — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 09:43:21 +0000

Runs nice and slickly, although my PS2 gamepad doesn’t seem to be recognised at all, which is annoying.

It’s as fun as ever, but I’m slightly surprised by the visuals. Either the PC version has been uglified, I’ve got it set up completely wrong, or the game has dated much more than I expected since I played it on the PS3 a year ago.

By: bansama

bansama — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 04:11:45 +0000

Hmm. I’m looking at the digital download on the EA website and apparently you can only download the thing once? Unless you pay an extra 6 bucks for some extended download service. And even then it only lasts for two years?

EA still pull that stunt? Thankfully the EA store in Japan gives you the 6 month extended service free of charge. It’s still a horrible client though and I won’t be using it. Of course, with this game, we don’t even need to as you can install the full game with the demo installer =) I have the added bonus that EA Japan actually sell the English version of the game for $30. And at a cheap price like that, I’m sold.

In comparison, they sell the English version of Undercover for $80. Just to give you an idea of the usual domestic prices for games here.