Top Down Perspective: 07/02/10

The second installment of my (and by "my", I mean what I'm included in) podcast The Top Down Perspective is now live. Like before, it can be found at its main page here. If you would like a direct link, here's one. And if you want a quick download to your iTunes library, well here you go. Here's a recap of the episode:

This week's episode has taken some of the feedback from the first episode to heart and is a little more structured. A smaller file, shorter length (At 1 hour 10 minutes instead of 2 hours) and just a little bit more focused (but only a bit). We're also trying out a new sound setup and meeting in person to do these, so bear with us.

This week's episode deals with the closing of the Xbox Live servers for original Xbox games, last year's top selling XBLA games and overall games, along with Project Needlemouse/Sonic the Hedgehog 4 and the new reality show on the PSN, The Tester.

As always, any questions, comments, feedback, fan/hate mail, etc... can be sent to topdownperspective@hotmail.com

There are no roads where we're going

So Criterion announced their prices for the Legendary Cars for Burnout Paradise. These will be the second installment of paid DLC (after the Party Pack). The cars included in this pack are K.I.T.T. from Knight Rider, The Dukes of Hazzard's General Lee, the Ecto-1 from Ghostbusters and the Delorean from Back to the Future. Pretty good. The prices however are a bit much in my mind.

Three of them will be available for 160 MS points while the Delorean will run for 320. That's around $2 for the cheap and $4 for the last. I think this is a bit much for one car, granted the Delorean can hover. If you wish to buy them all as a pack, it will run you 600 points (~$8) which is a saving of about $2.

I am however, ok with them charging this but only because it's Burnout Paradise. Normally I would think these are too much but with all the free content coming out for this game, they need to start charging and soon. It was mind blowing how this game only run for $20 retail, they release several free updates -- significant updates -- and it's published by EA. Crazy!

I'm not sure yet if I will be downloading any of these, I think I might grab the Delorean due to my love for Back to the Future. Speaking of which, I need to find a copy of all those on DVD.

This also brings up this week's poll: Which of the BP (Burnout Paradise) legendary cars are you getting?

Reverse psychology!

The Office theme and picture pack is now on the Xbox Live Marketplace for 150 MS points and 100 MS points.