The nice thing about the sponsor cars is it can help you get better cars earlier in the game. You can get the Gamestop and I think the Best Buy one once you get the A license which is before you get these cars normally in the game. The others you need your Burnout License to unlock. My favorite is the Steel Wheels car. It is a great balance of strength, speed and handling and makes winning all the road rage and marked man events much easier.

The Cagney update is available for the 360

Yeah and it's over 300mbs damn I need a bigger hard drive asap.

Yeah, I think it was around 380MB.

Downloaded the update last night. Didn't take terribly long. I will have to try the game tonight for a little bit. I haven't played it since it first came out.

Burnout Bikes will be available next Thursday!

DAmn you I saw this and thought that the bikes were out already.

For both the PS3 and Xbox version? or they are already available for the PS3?
I have the Xbox version and I know that we received the Cagney update like a month later.

The Playstation Blog confirmed the PS3 version is updated on the 18th, but I don't know if the 360 has to wait this time. Hopefully both are updated the same day.

The Bikes Pack should be available now, at least for PS3 owners. Not sure if it's up for the 360 yet.

Cannot wait to get this and play it! Darn my career!

I forgot the bikes come out today. Time to go buy Burnout again...

It is out for the 360 dling it right now

Great!
I'll try it later today. RB2 will have to wait a little bit.

I downloaded and play a bit of it this morning (10% complete with the bike expansion). The control is quite nice, the crashes are unrealistic (but in order to keep the rating I understand why the rider dissappears). However, my main gripe (which is by no means a real gripe as this was free content) is that while we can flip cars and do flat spins, while on a bike this is impossible. The only thing given is a wheelie. While I know in reality doing a flip on a street bike is most likely impossible, this game is clearly an arcade racer.

Is it in the marketplace or is it an automatic update?

Automatic - put your disc in and the download will commence.

It is also in the marketplace, which is how I downloaded it.

Awesome stuff. Looking forward to getting back into Burnout for a bit at least.

Got it now - Marketplace is Xbox talk? I'm playing it on a PS3.

I gotta say I don't like it at all. I haven't experience the night/day transitions, but the motorbikes are pretty... meh. The crashes are unspectacular, or just not there at all! I crash into a wall, and I'm instantaneously transported backwards a few feet. No crash animation or anything! LAME! It's fun to drive around on the bike, but I wanna see crashes! If you can't bring the crashes, don't put out bikes!!!

I'm glad I still haven't picked this game up, so it won't ruin my opinion of the Burnout Franchise...3 and revenge, FTW.

I thought the same thing until I rented it and I love it the previous Burnout I thought sucked so I am glad this one was good.

I'm definitely enjoying it.

I do wish that the crashes were a bit more dynamic and that there were other motorcyclists on the road and that you could race them. But hey! They didn't have to provide this update at all and it's very easy to not play with the motorcycles.

It does feel a little bit like driving on a rail (as someone mentioned above) but for me it's breathed some new life into an already great game. The maneuverability of the motorcycles has also allowed me to try some stuff out in Paradise City that I would have been unable to do otherwise.

I also had a lot of fun getting online last night and completing many of the Freeburn challenges with people.

Love the Bike pack. Some of the burning routes are very cool since they have added checkpoints. I've already finished Road Rules on daytime and about half the burning routes. I still have a lot to do online and that will probably be next up. The crashes may not be as spectacular, but this pack was added for more racing and not for more crashing.

This has been my game of the year all year and it just keeps getting better. Bring on the island.