Electronic Arts has announced ‘Burnout 5’ is currently in development at Criterion Games and scheduled for release on Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 in 2007.
Unlike the Xbox 360 incarnation of ‘Burnout Revenge,’ ‘Burnout 5’ is being built from the ground up to take advantage of the processing and other capabilities Xbox 360 and PS3 offer. The official game description is as follows:
Burnout 5 gives players license to wreak havoc in Paradise City, the ultimate seamless racing battleground, with a massive infrastructure of traffic-heavy roads to abuse. Gone is the need to jump in and out of menus and aimlessly search for fun like many open world games; in Burnout 5, every inch of the world is built to deliver heart-stopping Burnout-style gameplay. Every intersection is a potential crash junction and every alleyway is an opportunity to rack up moving violations.
Of course, rules are made to be broken, and when gamers enter Paradise City, they’re assigned a Drivers License that quickly begins to amass a record of player’s most aggressive, reckless and destructive exploits behind the wheel. But it’s not the law that’s eyeing player’s progress ” when gamers push things too hard they’ll be squaring off against the city’s most infamous burners, and these legends aren’t interested in who crosses the finish line first.
Burnout 5 also delivers the next level of speed and destruction, with brand new next-generation technology allowing gamers to literally rip their cars in half, in the most explosive pile-ups in the series” history.
We’ll have much more on ‘Burnout 5’ as EA releases new information in the months ahead.
