It wasn't that long ago that rumours were swirling around a remastered version of Criterion's open world racer, Burnout Paradise. According to Gematsu, it seems the rumours are accurate, at least in Japan.
The site states the PS4 remaster will release in the East on 16th March, which roughly tallies with the previous rumoured Western release date of 1st March, and will be priced at 4,104 yen. This is approximately £25 or $35, which sounds about right to us.
We can only imagine that, if Japan is getting these details, a confirmation from EA won't be too far away.
Do you want to be taken back to the Paradise City? Spin your wheels in the comments section below.
[source gematsu.com, via twitter.com]
Comments 9
@Neolit Yeah, for that price I'm defninitely in. Burnout Paradise isn't my favourite Burnout but I still loved it, and the PS4 is desperate for some arcade racers!
I really wished they'd remaster or even better yet bring a sequel to BLUR. It was mad fun, I so loved it, unfortunately it got sucked up by "Split Second" as they released roughly at the same time and shared the same demographic. Bizarre Creations shut doors after Blur, which is a shame. But yes, Burnout Paradise City, if it has a drop-in and drop-out multiplayer intact and everything's working smoothly, I'd go to paradise city again. Loved it the first time round.
Sounds great. A bit high on the price point. Will have to see what it looks like remastered
Nice. Now do SSX3.
Burnout Paradise is a great game so I would enjoy a remaster. I bought it for my PS3 and got it free just over a year ago on XB1's GwG backwards compatible options. I never bought any of the DLC packs so would hope those were included in the remaster.
I do miss the more Arcade racing games and Burnout Paradise was a great open world arcade racer. For its time, it looked great too. The closest game to it now is Forza Horizon but I still miss Burnout. I enjoyed the Motorstorm games too but those Arcade racers were built on set tracks and more like Forza Motorsport or Gran Tourismo without the serious/sim style play.
In recent years, it really does seem that the 'Arcade' racer has disappeared. A few games (like Gas Guzzlers for example) have cropped up in the 'indie/arcade' sector but the AAA sector seems to be so 'Sim' based - Project Cars, Driveclub, Gran Tourismo, Forza Motorsport, Assetto Corsa, F1 etc. It seemed that the Arcade racing sector was 'dead' - I know we had NFS and the Crew but these are hardly 'great' and maybe why there has been a lack.
Anything more than £25 would be unreasonable in my opinion and that seems fair considering how much fun you can have. It was a good looking game in its time anyway with a good soundtrack (Paradise City by GNR for example...) and looks 'good' on the XB1 - obviously not GTSport/Forza7 good - so I don't think too much work would be needed. Of course they could do more than just up the resolution to 1080p (and above for Pro/X) like push the settings up to 'max' (lighting, shadows, reflections, ambient occlusion, texture filtering etc), improve the draw distances and textures, improve the buildings and polygon count, add in HDR etc but it should still look good with improved resolution.
I thought EA weren't in the remastering buisness?
Mass Effect Trliogy on PS4 lives on .
@Fight_Teza_Fight
Then I also say Dead Space 1 & 2!! (not 3 though).
yes! This is one of my favorite games of all time.
I liked just about every Burnout game released... except this one. To me Paradise was the only disappointment in a great racing series. I hope they will release Burnout Revenge as well, at some point. that's still my all time favourite
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