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Throughout 2008, game developer Criterion Games earned plenty of well-deserved praise for its racing title Burnout Paradise (PS3/Xbox360).   Not content with creating a great, open-world racing game, Criterion spent the last twelve months delivering additional content, and further tweaking the game play, garnering respect from gamers and the gaming media alike along the way.  Best of all, that content cost nothing!  Feel free to correct The Incomplete Gamer, but if there’s a better supported title on the market today, then we don’t know about it.  That support continues this year, commencing with this major free update which landed on February 6th.

Criterion Games have done a sterling job in keeping the Burnout Paradise faithful happy, but what does a developer do to jump start sales of a 12 month old game in a crowded marketplace.  Criterion Games relaunched the game!  A new SKU, and a new title (Burnout Paradise: Ultimate Box), complete with all the free downloadable content to date as well as the new premium (read: not free) content; the Party Pack – a play at home, social, pass the controller type mode.

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