$12.99 seems like a great price; considering what I know and have seen so far.

Looking forward to meet some of you on the island for some air time.

When I drove home from work I was looking forward to this. I smiled when during the startup of Burnout the message showed up, that update 1.90 was available; the 413MB had me slightly concerned though. And rightly so. It took me 6 hours to download the file; the Hong Kong(?) server loves to drop the collection to me and made lots of use of that today

And then as to add insult to injury: The Hong Kong store seems to be the only one where the Island is not yet available It's Thursday here first and I am still last to drive to the island


Positive side effect: I cleaned up some files on my computer...
...and at least I can play with it right away when coming home tomorrow, as the island is already patched into my game and I only need the 100kb unlock/file.

It seems I won't be visiting Bog Surf Island at all this weekend as the Hong Kong store apparently doesn't get the add-on this week. I now seem to baguely remember that even criterion mentioned that June 11 was everyone but Asia (although, Japan gets it).

I hope it is a misprint/ommision on the side of the linked report...

Quoting NewEnglander:

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I downloaded the 1.90 patch in under 3 minutes.

Wow, that is lightening fast for 413MB...

Once it worked I needed around 30-40min. Problem is that this stuff cannot be downloaded in the background (which would pick up where stopped) and doesn't keep the downloaded part of the file in the cache so I must always start from 0% again.

I got the update last night with no problem.  But didn't get a chance to pick up the Island (wife wanted to watch Smallville).  I'm hoping I'll have an opportunity tonight, but for the past couple months we've been doing movie nights with friends every Friday.  So it may have to wait until tomorrow.  Or I'll just be up really, really late.  It is the weekend after all.

The island is heaps of fun! It really is airport/quarry and what ever else we love condensed in one smaller area. Jumps, jumps and more jumps, some of them insanely high. You'll love it.


The one, unfortunately rather big, complaint I have: not enough online challenges. 10...? Just 10...? Big fail in this department.

After roughly 4 hours, I got 100% on my license and 500/500 challenges done!

It's a ton of fun.  I just hope I can find more time to play soon.

And interesting note, I was comparing progress against my friends on the Criterion website and I've spent 11 seconds more time on the Island than Achim.

Funny you mention that.  I actually did have a much harder time with the Road Rage events.  But I've always hated those and haven't played in a while.  I was also using the Island cars to do it.  I think I finally ended up switching to the Calvary (1st car) to do them just to get them done.

I also had a problem with Stunt Runs.  But I think that had more to do with being unfamiliar with the Island.  In the other part of the city, I already have some routes worked out and just always headed there.  So I was in unfamiliar territory.

I also had to do a few of the races multiple times.