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Burnout Paradise: Upcoming "Cagney" update brings 70 new Freeburn Challenges and co-op leaderboards

Xenctuary | April 24, 2008 | News | Playstation 3 XBOX 360 
Criterion Games have announced that Burnout Paradise's "Cagney" update, currently scheduled for the end of June, will include a host of new online Freeburn Challenges, additional Freeburn Challenge types and co-op leaderboards.

The 70 Freeburn Challenges currently planned for "Cagney" will also include two brand new Freeburn Challenge types: Multi-Part and Timed.

In addition each Freeburn Challenge will also come with its own "co-op leaderboard", letting players compare how fast they managed to finish each objective with their friends and the rest of the online community.

Burnout Paradise's "Cagney" update will be made available for free to both PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 owners this June.
We're pushing to bring you a completely fresh and new way to play challenges.

We’ve evolved the Freeburn Challenge experience in 3 major ways for "Cagney":

1. Multi part challenges

We've started to string together multiple challenges – this adds depth and allows you to play a heap of challenges in sequence.

Here's how it can work – 8 players hook up at the Observatory on White Mountain and head for the Rock Hole on South Mountain Drive taking in a long sequence of challenges. Jump over Dead Man’s Edge, hit the windmill jump, race through the tubes in the building site and nail the jump sequence leading to the rock hole.

That's the sequence we play-tested today. Because so many of us were crowding through the jumps they became completely chaotic and hilarious. Stacking it in first place then repeatedly watching your rivals slam into your crash debris as you try to restart caused some immense comedy moments. The carnage contributes to creating a constantly changing Freeburn Challenge environment – it's great fun.

But that's not all...

2. Timed Challenges

Each of our new Challenges has a time limit that really encourages cooperation. If the team doesn’t finish in time, everybody fails.

It's co-operative, but there's a competitive edge too. We call out the player that performed best, so while everyone works together to get the best team time, they’re still competing against each other to be the first to finish.

3. Co-op Leaderboards

And finally, each Challenge has it’s very own Leaderboard. Once you’ve nailed the target time, you can compete to reach the top of the Leaderboard.
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