A new island for Burnout Paradise

The usual update on the next downloadable contents for Burnout Paradise communicates the arrival of an expansion of a rather different size thant he normal auto-downloadable packs. Criterion has announced, in fact, the arrival (always scheduled for the first days of 2009) of “Big Surf Island”, a full new island that will add itself to the original gaming area. This addition also represents the first paid expansion for the racing game, that had managed to keep its original politics of “free downloadable contents”, as it was explained on the official site:

“We’d mentioned in a previous podcast that this would be free content, but we can now confirm that it will be premium paid-for content.

Here’s why.  We never expected to create anything this ambitious for the island, but as it progressed we got more and more excited about what it could become.  (In fact, that’s the story of all our Downloadable Content.)”.

Together with Big Surf Island, there will be a new vehicle, “Dust Storm”, essencially a dune buggy. Considering the amount of work, there’s not much to be complained about having to pay for the new DLC, really.

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