Criterion Games has announced the imminent launch of Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box - a special edition release that includes the award-winning Burnout Paradise game plus the previously-released Burnout Paradise Cagney and Burnout Paradise Bikes content updates, and the brand new Burnout Paradise Party content.

Burnout Paradise Party is an offline multiplayer mode designed to allow up to eight friends to "pass-the-pad" in dozens of Burnout challenges. For players that already own Burnout Paradise, Burnout Paradise Party will be sold separately as downloadable content.

In Burnout Paradise Party there are dozens of quick-fire, turn-based challenges where players compete in different stunt, speed and skill events. In addition to Burnout Paradise Party, Burnout Paradise The Ultimate Box will include a host of new features including a restart option added for racing, easier control of the early vehicles, and for the PS3 system the new Burnout Paradise Network.

Developed at Criterion Games in Guildford, England, Burnout Paradise The Ultimate Box will be available in February 2009 on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 and marks the debut of the game on PC.