DLC - Legendary cars (19/Feb/2009)

BT@HOME · 16-02-2009, 2:12 PM

From Criterion games on Twitter:

The Burnout Paradise Legendary Cars Pack will be released on CONSOLE this Thursday 19th February.

No pricing or anything else in the way of further details.

BT@HOME · 16-02-2009, 3:19 PM

The pack includes The Jansen 88 Special, the Manhattan Spirit, the Carson Nighthawk and the Cavalry Bootlegger.

All cars will be available to download individually or as a pack.

kdc · 16-02-2009, 3:54 PM

oh yes.....

I'll be cruising around in my delorean..sorry....jansen 88....

gordon.smith · 16-02-2009, 4:18 PM

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Originally Posted by kdc

oh yes.....

I'll be cruising around in my delorean..sorry....jansen 88....

That's exactly what I'll be doing also - maybe we should start an AVF Jansen 88 owners club.

Mind you, the Nighthawk looks so damn appealing as well. Not for the nightrider link just the sinister look of it.
Oooh decisions

BT@HOME · 16-02-2009, 7:18 PM

Legendary Cars are (according to the ingame browser):
88 Special $3.99/£3.19
Manhattan Spirit $1.99/£1.59
Cavalry Bootlegger $1.99/£1.59
GT Nighthawk $1.99/£1.59
or all four together for $7.99/£6.29

Del Boy Smiffy · 16-02-2009, 7:31 PM

IMO that is a major rip off, expected 99p per car.

And whats with everything costing £6.29

kdc · 16-02-2009, 8:12 PM

and why is one car more expensive than the others......

i'll still end up buying them though....

gordon.smith · 16-02-2009, 8:13 PM

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Originally Posted by BT@HOME

Legendary Cars are (according to the ingame browser):
88 Special $3.99/£3.19
Manhattan Spirit $1.99/£1.59
Cavalry Bootlegger $1.99/£1.59
GT Nighthawk $1.99/£1.59
or all four together for $7.99/£6.29

Why the frank is the Jansen twice the price of the others?

"I'm starting to get a bad feeling about this."

Battlestar · 17-02-2009, 6:53 AM

Really,

Everyone should boycott this download. The party pack was the biggest rip off ever. I wish i could get my money back on it.

over £6 for 4 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BT@HOME · 17-02-2009, 9:36 AM

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Originally Posted by Battlestar

Really,

Everyone should boycott this download. The party pack was the biggest rip off ever. I wish i could get my money back on it.

over £6 for 4 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

They are all optional, why boycott anything if you don't have to buy them.

I assume the extra for the Jansen is because that will be the most popular. They are running a business

The party pack was a known quantity, how can you feel ripped off?

Darth_terra · 18-02-2009, 10:51 AM

I'm guessing the Jansen costs more because it has more to it, it is the back to the future car after all so it has the fire trails and the hover mode, the other cars basically have nothing more than just looks.

still it is a little expensive just for 4 cars, but i still most likely get it.

BT@HOME · 18-02-2009, 11:27 AM

Apparently :

The Jansen 88 takes off when you hit L3.

The GT Nighthawk has lights on the front and a spoiler that pop up when you hit L3.

The Cavalry Bootlegger honks the horn if you press L3 while in midair.

And nothing has been said on what the Manhattan Spirit does. All we know is some "fun stuff" happens when you press L3.

OK the others are hardly in the same league as the Jansen but at least they do "something"

Hubba-EX · 18-02-2009, 12:27 PM

Could it be that these are more expensive also because they are licensed from movies rather then real car makers?

BT@HOME · 18-02-2009, 12:30 PM

They are not licensed, hence why they have GT Nighthawk rather KITT etc etc

if they were licensed then they would be named as the true vehicles.

BOFH_UK · 18-02-2009, 9:17 PM

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Originally Posted by BT@HOME

Apparently :

The Jansen 88 takes off when you hit L3.

The GT Nighthawk has lights on the front and a spoiler that pop up when you hit L3.

The Cavalry Bootlegger honks the horn if you press L3 while in midair.

And nothing has been said on what the Manhattan Spirit does. All we know is some "fun stuff" happens when you press L3.

OK the others are hardly in the same league as the Jansen but at least they do "something"

The Spirit seems to have working lights and a siren that sounds a bit (but not much) like the Ecto 1 siren...

The Nighthawk also has a scanner light on the back for some reason. Not entirely sure why but ho-hum. Oh, and the scanner lights are light blue instead of red.

My problem with all of these cars are they really don't give anything new to the game. Even the 88 falls into this category, it doesn't really hover, it just drives much like a normal car with an airbag under it when you land (according to the podcast anyway). They're far too expensive for what they are and I personally wouldn't put either the Spirit or Nighthawk in the 'legendary' cateogry. The old KITT possibly, most definately NOT the new one. And while Ecto 1 is kinda cool they never did anything with it really, it's hardly famous for being in car chases.

What really hurts though is I'd be more than happy to give Criterion some of my hard earned dosh for DLC after all they've done. But I refuse to fork out for overpriced content which seems to have been priced purely to take advantage of those thinking 'but but but they've given us so much for FREE how can you complain?'. Hopefully the new island is going to be a decent price and I can chuck 'em some cash for that instead.

patrober · 19-02-2009, 12:52 PM

i was online this morning and saw a couple of hte new cars. Nice, but not really worth the price i think as it doesnt really add anything to the game. Certainly not at the price they are asking.

With £7 for the party pack, and £6 for the cars - i wonder where they are going to price the island - around a tenner i reckon if not more.

Hope im wrong as thats the one i am waiting for and not sure if I would feel happy paying over a tenner for that.

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teggs · 19-02-2009, 12:56 PM

don't forget who is really in charge of burnout - EA

cars are a rip and the 88 costing double is ridiculous, you know they've only done that because it's the one everyone wants.

BT@HOME · 19-02-2009, 7:16 PM

Nighthawk trophy appears to be "faulty", I've done the x3 boost about 6 times so far and nothing has appeared.

The other trophies appear to have worked though.

sparced · 19-02-2009, 7:58 PM

I just came on here to say the same. First time driving that vehicle I went well past X3, one of the fastest in cars in the game. Then I noticed the trophy and did it again a few more times. Stopping at 3X makes no difference.

Everyone is driving the 88 special in every online game I joined. The P12 was my favourite car anyway so I'm very pleased with it. The Ghostbusters and Dukes I'll probably use only once.

CLH · 19-02-2009, 8:06 PM

Can't get mine to work. Paid for, activated. But doesn't allow me to use them.

dfua · 19-02-2009, 8:43 PM

CLH, check the Disc ID for your copy. The DLC is region locked

, if it is not BLEUxxxxx then that would be the problem.

CLH · 19-02-2009, 9:03 PM

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Originally Posted by dfua

CLH, check the Disc ID for your copy. The DLC is region locked

, if it is not BLEUxxxxx then that would be the problem.

Ah. That makes sense. I remember buying it from MOvietyme. Damn, that buggers that up doesn't it!

Darth_terra · 19-02-2009, 9:18 PM

Has anyone else noticed a all car unlock download for a fee, typical EA cack, instead of playing the game to unlock them all as it should be.

BT@HOME · 19-02-2009, 10:19 PM

sparced, copy your game save, then delete it, stsrt up and do the x3 boost (this should activate the trophy ... it did for me) now copy back your original game save. job done !!

Paul_T · 20-02-2009, 8:34 AM

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Originally Posted by BT@HOME

Nighthawk trophy appears to be "faulty", I've done the x3 boost about 6 times so far and nothing has appeared.

The other trophies appear to have worked though.

Ditto - was just going to ask if I was doing something wrong...

Paul_T · 20-02-2009, 8:37 AM

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Originally Posted by dfua

CLH, check the Disc ID for your copy. The DLC is region locked

, if it is not BLEUxxxxx then that would be the problem.

Does that really screw things up? So much for region coding!

On the 360, my bro-in-law used a gamesave from a US site and it unlocked the extra cars only available in the states (places like gamestop giving away a car of their own etc) but it worked perfectly well on a PAL game & console...