Today, we're able to finally unveil the release date for the Cagney software update!

This is our 3rd and most ambitious software update yet! It will be available for free at 09:00am UK time on Thursday 10th July '08.

If you've missed the stories we've run so far, you can hit the Cagney tab at the top of this page and see all our Cagney blog entries in one place or check out the following summary of features:

3 New Freeburn Game Modes:

Road Rage
Up to 8-player team event. One team must race through a series of Paradise City checkpoints. The other team must stop them.
Cue incredible chases and battling through the city, tons of voice communication as players co-ordinate their efforts.

Stunt Run (vs)

Pull stunts to score points - hit barriers, billboards and ramps; ace barrel rolls, flat spins and massive airtime to score big. Everybody competes to simultaneously reach the biggest total. Hit your rivals to kill their scores and gain multipliers.

Marked Man

A player is selected at random and everyone gangs up to take them down. The Marked Man scores for reaching the end point intact and taking anyone down along the way.

70 New Freeburn Challenges
70 new timed multi-part Freeburn Challenges
Leaderboards for these challenges that log your best time (as well as those people who did it with you)

Vehicles
Hunter Olympus
A secret Criterion Car!

New liveries
Rossolini Tempesta Dream
Two fan-created liveries the Oval Steel Racer and Inferno Hippie Van
Two secret Criterion liveries!

Ranked Race Changes
Too much to report in this blog entry but click here for the full breakdown!

Custom Soundtracks
Custom Soundtrack support on PS3

Other high-priority fixes and updates

If you're in a 3 or more player challenge and a player drops out, the remaining players can still complete it (subject to it being a challenge that can handle this!)
"Previously" section on the search games list now displays Challenges, Today's Best and Freeburn game modes, making it loads easier to decide which game you want to join
You can now view Leaderboards and Options in an online game
You can now mute other online players in the show players screen
You can now mute yourself if you have a PS3 Eye/Eye toy
We've increased time-out for online races, and if all players complete the races within the timer, then you go straight to results
The Airfield has been changed to help with the drivability of the area and make it a little easier to complete the hoop challenges
Online cars now show damage - roll up to the start in a half-destroyed Hunter Cavalry and everyone else will see it!
Added a stronger display message if you rule all of Todays Best
The Easy Drive menu & Challenges page now loops from top to bottom
Fixed the navigation system so that it takes into account the next check point in a race
Fixed traffic not reappearing in Freeburn after a no-traffic race
Fixed online races using Lawrence Road - it's been reporting finish distances with a little inaccuracy
Revised 30+ car resets following crashes
All new sound effects added for Easy Drive
Driving backwards in Road Rage now ends the event as it does in Marked Man
Option to invert camera axis for the look around camera on right stick
Online player information made accurate on the instance a player goes through a checkpoint in races
If you set VOIP mix to zero it is now saved correctly
1080i support for "almost HD" sets - PS3 only
Improved the Standard Definition rendering on PS3
New highlight to show the player in Today's Best
Easy Drive fades out if it's unused for 20 seconds
Boost chaining no longer possible by drifting in open areas



By TheTeam@Criterion - Mon, 09 Jun 2008 13:18:18 GMT
Topic: Burnout Paradise News





Cagney Pack Dated

We're delighted to be able to finally announce a date for the Xbox 360 release of our long-awaited software update - codenamed Cagney.

The update will be available on Monday 4th August.

It's a FREE automatic update delivered to all online-enabled Burnout Paradise players and forms the first major part of our reinvention of Burnout Paradise through downloadable packs.

This latest brings 3 awesome online game modes, two great cars, a live news page and calendar, 70 all-new timed multi-part challenges, a complete overhaul of our Online Racing System and a stack of other major improvements.

The full feature list for this massive game update is here.

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.

We'll bring you news of the features and the response to Cagney here on the site and in our Crash TV video podcast.

Burnout Paradise. Always changing.