Comments on: Burnout Paradise Cops & Robbers Update Soon

By: Chaz

Chaz — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 10:43:04 +0000

I noticed that the new Godfather 2 game is offering similar DLC on release where you can unlock all the best stuff right off the bat without having to play through the game to do it. http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/premium-dlc-shortcuts-for-godfather-ii

It does seem to me too that they are charging for what is essencially a cheat code. It all smacks of corporate greed.

Dead Space and Far Cry 2 have also offered up some pretty poor DLC for the money charged recently. It seems odd that despite all the furore over the “Horse Armour” DLC for Oblivion, that we are still to this day seeing equally pathetic offerings being delivered up by publishers.

By: Devan

Devan — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 07:31:58 +0000

@DigitalSignalX
Nope, I play it with a gamepad. You could probably use a wheel too, but it wouldn’t work as well. This game is meant to be arcadey.

By: DigitalSignalX

DigitalSignalX — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 01:02:05 +0000

Is burnout paradise playable with mouse and KB only? (doesn’t holds breath).

By: simplicio

simplicio — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 00:34:35 +0000

You call this “a Cops & Robbers game,” but I’m looking for anything on the linked site or in the video that indicates this would be anything more than new skins and a reiteration of that survival mode, and I’m coming up with nothing.

By: Klaus

Klaus — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 22:06:33 +0000

Maybe they all just sound similar ysbreker, It all sounds the same to me, so I can’t notice.

By: ysbreker

ysbreker — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 21:57:35 +0000

I find it both funny and sad that they used the very same police radio chatter sample used in all of the GTAIII versions. (And a ton of other TV shows, games and movies) Is it really that hard to make your own sample? OR is this becoming another Wilhelm scream?

By: RiptoR

RiptoR — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 17:39:24 +0000

[quote]I’m fairly sure games used to just have you type a secret code in for this sort of thing, not enter your credit card details.[/quote]

You never played any Codemasters games then? They might not ask for CC info, but they have you a call to an expensive phonenumber just to be able to use cheats…

By: Heliocentric

Heliocentric — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 16:54:43 +0000

Trackmania had what? 7 cars. Anything over 12 is nonsense, but kg likes anything 12+. So what to do? But actual content, like the addition of bikes or new play modes i’ll take on a case by case basis.

By: Surgeon

Surgeon — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 16:19:18 +0000

The stupid Burnout DLC prices are why I’ve never forked out for any of it.

Tiny cars for a tenner?
You what?

By: Flappybat

Flappybat — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:57:13 +0000

DLC pricing is all over the place. I pray to god we get it sorted out soon. Operation Anchorage was pretty badly priced. Being generous I would say it was worth £3.99.

The boost specials are a joke at £6 when one of them is a remake of an existing car. In fact I think the other car in that pack is the only totally original car in any of the DLC they have. All the legendary cars are based off existing cars.

By: Rei Onryou

Rei Onryou — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:27:41 +0000

This is why I’ve never bought DLC and perhaps never will. A couple of hours of extra content does not equal 20%+ of the original game cost.

I played Fallout 3 for 80 hours on one character and bought one of the Collector’s Editions. Based on that price (£40), I paid £0.50 for each hour of fun. Fine by me.

Operation Anchorage works out at ~£6.80 (or £8.50 for buying 1000 points). That’s 17% of the Collector’s edition price. By my maths, that should be 13.6 hours of goodness. In actuality, its more like 4 hours, maybe 6 if you stretched it. That’s £2 or £3 by my maths. I’d pay £2 or £3 for Operation Anchorage.

Devs/Pubs/Microsoft: Stop being so greedy!

By: Smee

Smee — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:04:45 +0000

I’m looking forward to playing the best Midtown Madness mode, but shinier and faster. Still, Reskinning existing car models seems incredibly cheap. And can we stop calling reskins new cars? Burnout Paradise didn’t have 76 cars, it had about 35.