Burnout 5 Coming to 360, PS3

It’s been almost a year since the 360 has been out in the marketplace. We’ve seen a lot happen since then with Microsoft’s next gen system. We’ve seen XBOX Live undergo some changes under the hood and we’ve seen the Marketplace give us one day of the week to look forward. We’ve seen some good games and bad games in our sparse collections. One of the good ones that seems to be part of many a 360 gamer’s collection is Burnout Revenge. We got a slight update in the game and the new ability to take advantage of the achievements in XBOX Live not to mention better multiplayer support. Burnout Revenge was easily a no brainer when it came to game selection, and instantly became a hit. But the game has always been lacking something…I can’t quite put my finger on. Lots of menus to navigate through, and very segmented mission gameplay. Well all that is about to change as EA formally announced today that Burnout 5 is under development for the Xbox 360 and the Playstation 3. Apparently now we can look forward to much more unhindered game play and a city we get free rule over.

From the release: “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