Burnout Spiritual Successor Teased by Criterion Founders

Takedown easily! Everything about that game was so much fun! Right down to the soundtrack.

I miss burnout :(

Had a lot of fun with every Burnout game, Paradise being the last. Not the best, but a decent try at a different approach. I think a hybrid between closed tracks and an open city/outskirts would be a far better game. A chance to have fun in demolition derby style areas, racing tracks and social drive-around-open-upgrade area would be awesome. Custom paint and accessories would certainly bring it all together. Don't forget those DLC's!! :D

Sound me there new game be epic can't wait oh have wait forgot.

Burnout games were really great until they took away crash mode, then they became just another racing game. I'm all for a reboot of the Burnout series as long as they bring back CRASH MODE.

Burnout was great until they went open world.

Paradise was overrated.

If only Criterion were responsible for the Mad Max game and not Avalanche who made a mess of it. It should've been entirely car combat as opposed to that stupid on foot trash.

Burnout Paradise was one of the first games I played on PS3 and it was amazing. Nice graphics, gameplay and a huge open world to drive in. Hopefully they make a spiritual sequel to that.

What's wrong with paradise?

I liked paradise...

GameSpot has turned into an opinion blog finally?

Burnout Revenge (was it 3's clone?), def not Paradise-style (that sucked).

But to be blunt, these guys can't do anything, cause that game needs a BUDGET!

burnout 3 please.

burnout 3 is the best "cars" game ever.

It won't matter which one they make, because they will mess the game up with having the worst rubber banded AI, just like all the Burnout games, well the last few anyway.

Hope there's other people out there who actually dislike the open world element of paradise. Just end spending more time making sure I don't turn off onto the wrong street. Even though you have the map and indicators, it's still too easy to make one costly turn onto the wrong street. Personally liked it more simple like revenge and takedown, focusing on going fast, awesome drifts round corners and ramming cars/opponents, not focusing on whether I'm still on the right trail. Linear still has it's reasons to be appreciated (with the right game).

I honestly feel each game had something great t it, so I would think the best way to go is to combine the best of them all! And personally, I don't think I've ever played a Burnout game as much as I played Paradise, and I loved them all since #3. As lost as I was always driving around, the directional guidance was great, the open world-ness was pretty epic you have to admit despite the loads of traffic making it difficult to get around. That said, I think they could do more than just some preset city, why not a a full country or state maybe? That in mind, the traffic system really needs careful thought so as not to throw just any old amount of trucks wherever and whenever, maybe throw every day weather forecasts in effect, seasonal even, maybe have more focus on which types of companies, venders,, etc, really need to travel where, when and how often, throw in some big-time crazy event happenings, holiday related even, billboards into the mix that NPCs (the cars, basically, traffic) may or may not react to based on vendor, business, utility, etc like they're react to in real life as opposed to trust random or preset roaming around. here just really has to be more unpredictable type of variety in play here. This is how I would do a justice as a spiritual successor to the series.

BURNOUT 3: TAKEDOWN - REMASTER EDITION!!!!!!

Heck! If they even re-release Burnout 3, I'd buy it again!

Burnout 3 was hands down the best one. It just went downhill after EA acquired it. Revenge was "ok" but paradise......lets not talk about that one.

"Setting aside the fact that Burnout 3: Takedown is the correct answer"

/Agree. Seriously, the best in the series.

It's strange. When you boil it down to basics, 2, 3, and 4 are all essentially the same game. You race cars, you crash in bullet-time, and chaos ensues. Yet, there's just something about Burnout 3 that made it so much better than all the rest. I don't know what it was. The soundtrack, the host's personality, the locales used in the maps... Whatever it was, Takedown just nailed it and I definitely want the next burnout to capture what made Burnout 3 so fantastic.

If you could kindly make it look as good as Paradise, but good, I'll buy it.

Love the Burnout series. Wish more racers had arcade controls and epic crashes

Burnout 3 spiritual successor or RIOT! I WILL BURN THIS WORLD TO THE GROUDND!!

*ahem

I did LOVE Burnout Paradise though. Still, Takedown is a classic.

Coming 2018: Shiny Red Car 2?

(I hope their sports game isn't as bad as Airblade was!)

edit: oh, they beat me to the Shiny Red Car reference themselves in the tweet!

PARADISE Is THE BEST one. EASY.

Haha, I agree that Burnout 3 was the best one, but revenge was really good too. They both have their merits. Burnout 3's racing with Revenge's crash events would be the best combination imo.

Burnout Revenge easily.

Paradise is the best one. Easy.

F*** these idiots, they literally destroyed what made NFS great. And Burnout was fun, but way too mindless.

Your taste in arcade racers is immeasurably better than your taste in sports teams Chris. For that I commend you.