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Burnout Revenge Xbox 360 Q&A

By Staff, GameSpotPosted Nov 30, 2005 3:45 pm PT

Matt Webster, executive producer at Criterion Games, answers our questions about the upcoming Xbox 360 version of Burnout Revenge.

Electronic Arts and Criterion Games have today confirmed that an Xbox 360 version of Burnout Revenge is currently in development and scheduled for release in March next year. That the long-rumored-to-exist game will feature improved visuals is a given, but Criterion Games has many more improvements in store for Xbox 360 owners as well, as executive producer Matt Webster explains.

GameSpot: The Xbox 360 version of Burnout Revenge is going to be more than just a prettier version of the Xbox game, right? Any new content?

Burnout Revenge's vehicles will look significantly better on Xbox 360...

Matt Webster: Absolutely. When looking at the 360 version of our game, we wanted to make it the showcase version, the pinnacle of Revenge on any console. With every Burnout game, we look at the areas that are most important to us and what we are able to do on the hardware that we are creating the game on. For the 360, it was clear that Microsoft was gearing the machine at the connected generation. It feels like you are not getting all that the machine has to offer if you aren't connected to the Net, so we made this our focus with our Live Revenge and Save & Share features.

Live Revenge
We've spent an awful amount of time looking at games online and how they are played. They all seem to stick to the same basic premise: connect to a server, find some people, play the game, come back to a lobby. We really wanted to change this, to take it further, and that's what we are doing with Live Revenge.

Gamers come together in the lobby and then we do something brand new. We look at how these players connect with each other in a real sense, and then we highlight these relationships to all players. So, six players come together, we look to see who has played whom before. Perhaps you have taken me down in a previous game, perhaps I am the highest-ranked player, or maybe we haven't played each other before. Whatever the case, when the game starts, we fly the camera around each of the racers in the game, and then every player gets a rival relationship called out.

If you have taken me out in a previous game, it tells me that you are a Revenge Rival, and tells me what the score is between us. Simultaneously the game is telling you that I am coming after you, and that you are ahead in takedowns. If I am the player with the highest rank, the game will show me to everyone, calling me out and giving everyone a focus, a target to takedown. It's all about long memories and short tempers! These relationships are persistent--we track them, we look at how they change, and we tell the player. Perhaps I haven't been online for a while, so if we get into the same game, we'll highlight this fact to both you and me, telling us that there is a vendetta between us.

…at least until you crash, and the new damage effects kick in.

It's about building relationships, giving the player a focus, and then tracking how these relationships change. Maybe you're owning me, you are 10 takedowns ahead, so the game tells you. But, there's a twist, we took a look at how sports fans talk to each other. The 49ers have won the last nine games straight at home against the Cardinals--they're up, they're winning, they can boast about their record. However, as soon as the Cardinals win a game at Monster Park, that's all that matters--the scores are settled, the boasting stops, and the intensity goes up a notch. That's what we are achieving with Revenge online. You're ahead by 10, but when I take you down, the scores are settled, and it starts again!

We feel that we are making a real change to how games are played and sustained online. Persistently tracking the relationships between everyone who plays Burnout online makes the game more powerful and gives all gamers a focus. In every game that you play, there will be something going on, and that's before the real action has even started!

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24 Comments

  • wakofx

    Posted Dec 12, 2005 12:59 pm PT

    well... this sounds great... but Haloferret why on earth would say "death to Sony"? considering all the other Burnouts have been released on PS, this game will almost definately be released for PS3. and sony is not dumb so im sure they will be adding an online service for it as well like playOnline 3 or something.

    anyway... judging from ur nic, ur clearly not a REAL gamer, but just a sucker for MS marketing!

  • madgamer2000

    Posted Dec 11, 2005 4:23 pm PT

    a secret game from rare?!?!? if they hurry and start now, maby it will be done sometime before the end of the xbox-720s life span. that aside, the graphics in this look great, and it's still burnout revenge. I dont see why they should have to put tons of new content in the game. Its for people with an xbox360 who want burnout with better graphcis. not a totally new game.

  • panther008

    Posted Dec 10, 2005 6:54 am PT

    i wanna see an extremly awesome CRASH MODE

    see parts fly off my car

    hood pop up and see the engine moving and working

    make it like i wanna stop and drive by a gas station and get a coke or pepsi

    make the graphics that realistic

  • lozandier

    Posted Dec 9, 2005 11:23 am PT

    Cartoon, you don't know what in the WORLD you talking about when you said PS3 is double the power of 360, For one, THe PS3 is not that much better in graphics then 360, just 50mhz of a difference, another is 360 is much easier to make games for and that has been said by many of the most famed developers like Id. One 360 kills PS3 in performance with three cores that pwns the "sub-cores" PS3 has. In fact, Microsoft has released a document that shows the PS3 can practially never reach its Graphic Peaks due to its hardware conflicts. Go go IGN and search for this document, Microsoft themselves mailed. PS3 has weak online support, Extra Features not even 10% percent of their consumers are going to use (1080p, Dual HDTV support/ Use Two HDTV's at the same time, Seven Controllers at once?!!), Weak First Party games (except say Jak, and Grand Turmoiso, and Rachet and Clank; Pardon I misspelled GT). Not saying PS3 is a bad system just that 360 is technollogy better, (though it should have had wireless built in and had a next gen format). No doubt Sony will be the king of Japan, but in the western part of the world, its dominance will be DECLINED, And not to burst your bubble, but Rockstar looks to be more interested in widening their audience then just Sony, AND DON'T FORGET NOT ONE BUT TWO GAMES FROM GTA CORE CREATORS IS COMING EXCLUSIVELY TO MICROSOFT, DON'T FORGET That Microsoft has a hughe first person arsenal coming 2006, TOO HUMAN, Crackdown, Mass Effect, Oblivion, A SECRET GAME IN DEVELOPMENT FROM RARE, and the biggest game that will make 360 come out big Software Sales in 2006, HALO 3 (Though I highly doubt it will come out; at least details and screenshots will come out) I mean 2006 is the year 360 will come out of the gates, AND Don't Forget Nintendo, they have a Software lineup that's almost 100% going to be Platium in sale charts, METROID PRIME 3, Next Gen Mario/ Super Smash Melee,etc (FACE It, Like it or not, it's going to sell tons)
    Not saying Nintendo will greatly challenge SOny (which is almost a joke but you can NEVER Underestimate Nintendo) But It will greatly harm when PS3 comes out, I mean PS3 got major hits coming launch two, (MGS. Nuff Said) like GT, and Devil May Cry 4. But the other systems looking to have a much better Game lineup 2006 OVERALL. I mean games like madden 07 and Sonic The Hedgehog are going 360 anyways, And Without the Third Pary Support PS3 IS INFERIOR; No disrespect but the controller looks like a bommerang, the system looks like a toaster, (I know it's a beta but damn), Weak Online Cummunity, 360 has everything practially PS3 has and has much more functionaiity with the other stuff around the house; The PC, Ipod, etc. Don't forget it can play/function stuff the whole family can use, like Photo-cd's, MSN, All these things Make 360 a better system for fun in my humble opinion, and I can safely say this, if 360 had PS3's game support in Japan/Around the world, 360 would PWN Sony no question, WITHOUT PS3's THIRD PARTY SUPPORT, PS3 is INFERIOR to 360. The ONLY Thing That Harms 360 is Not Having a next gen format, that's about it....
    (Sorry for the long message,

  • Gunmetalman

    Posted Dec 8, 2005 2:40 pm PT

    Yeah the graphics look nice but I think EA should consider (like most devlopers) a little thing called download content. Rather than churning out a whole new game, how about just improving the one that's out now EA?

  • Farcical

    Posted Dec 7, 2005 6:17 pm PT

    I don't own any Burnout game and I've only played Takedown for PS2, so I'll probably wait for the 360 version of Revenge to buy my first title in the series.

  • animeGTZ

    Posted Dec 6, 2005 8:15 pm PT

    Cartoon is a fanboy, only fanboys drool over vaporware that won't see the light of day (in the states) for at least a year. I could say my '91 Civic is 2x as powerful as a dodge viper till I'm blue in the face, and you couldn't prove me wrong until I raced said viper. The point being, don't jump to conclusions till yoiu've seen the hardware in action. Sony has a habit of making grand claims that turn out to be lies. They came right out and said that the Killzone cut-scene was actual game footage, when the folks who are developing the game said it was pre-rendered.
    Just keep swallowing Sony's hype, somebody's got to.

  • ElementalFire

    Posted Dec 5, 2005 6:12 pm PT

    The lobby system sounds cool, but as long as EA is hosting the master server, Live will always be crappy.

    I hope they fix the bugs/glitches. ESPECIALLY the drift jump.

    "PS3 twice as powerful as xbox Twee siXty. Blue ray disk 54 gigabytes........Xbox Twee siXty 9 gig'z = xbox is really stupid.....................PS3 Grand Theft Auto...Unbelivable" (cartoon966230)

    Wow. Your incoherency amazes me. I think I'm going to switch to the gaystation right away, based on your very compelling argument! Oh wait, that's right. It's not even gone into production yet. Silly me.

  • cartoon966230

    Posted Dec 5, 2005 3:34 pm PT

    PS3 twice as powerful as xbox Twee siXty.

    Blue ray disk 54 gigabytes........Xbox Twee siXty 9 gig'z


    = xbox is really stupid.....................PS3 Grand Theft Auto...Unbelivable

  • juicebomb

    Posted Dec 5, 2005 12:56 pm PT

    I comb my own hair.

  • andrewtyen

    Posted Dec 4, 2005 6:24 pm PT

    i'm getting this game for xmas

  • _Glitch_

    Posted Dec 4, 2005 3:38 pm PT

    Looks nice so far.

  • CSM55

    Posted Dec 3, 2005 5:27 pm PT

    And by the way, Autolycus has no idea what he's talking about. If he did, people would care what he says

  • CSM55

    Posted Dec 3, 2005 5:25 pm PT

    If they REALLY want to earn my $60, they better bring back replays in crash mode, team crash, fix the lame bugs AND put in a film director option. Until then, it's just a game on a SLIGHTLY better system

  • Haloferret

    Posted Dec 3, 2005 5:20 pm PT

    DEATH TO SONY!

  • Shorty252

    Posted Dec 2, 2005 5:09 pm PT

    This looks great its nice that even though Criterion was bought out by EA they still continue to innovate and make great burnout games. I will definitely pick this one up, day one.

  • Autolycus

    Posted Dec 2, 2005 4:30 pm PT

    PS3 WILL NOT be laucnhed until xmas of next year. Sony has not announced a date, but considering they havent even started development of the system(they are still trying to produce the cell processor efficently), good luck waiting for such a long time. Not to mention Sony has mutliple lawsuits from 2 states(tx, ny, with more to follow) and 1 Class Action Lawsuit regarding the PS2(since it was built like crap and breaks on majority of owners/customers, all to save .03 of a penny).

    Then on top of that PS3 is nothing like the PS2. The compiler is completely different and a different language is being used. Oh yeah and the graphics chip(as powerful as it is) is nothing like any previous system either. So if you think that ANYONE(including creativity killers EA) can get the game done in 6 months, which is spring of 2006,(the dev. kits are just PC's) then you are highly WRONG.

    As for the article. The features that they took into account sound great. I am glad that someone @ EA is thinking outside of the box instead of creating games to make a quick buck, by selling them based to a certain demographical image.
    PS3 is doomed without a Hard Drive and considering the plan to launch "considerably more expensive then the XBOX 360" without the hard drive...they just keep digging themselves a bigger whole... oh yeah and Blue Ray sucks

  • Death1234567890

    Posted Dec 2, 2005 3:34 pm PT

    Um this is about the 360...port, not the "PS3" game. There is no proof that their is one anyways.

  • j10jep2

    Posted Dec 2, 2005 3:21 pm PT

    Wow. That sounds.....REALLY ****ing cool.

  • visor123

    Posted Dec 2, 2005 8:01 am PT

    Nice. They should make the PS3 version too and do the same.

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