Criterion Games: The Rise and Fall
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- Опубликовано: 26 июл 2024
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From being a small part of Canon and developing Renderware, Criterion Games turned the Burnout franchise into one of the biggest racing game series. Taking over Need For Speed from Black Box, they developed Hot Pursuit and Most Wanted before become a support studio under Electronic Arts.
Sources:
Interview With Criterion: archive.org/details/nextgen-i...
Burnout 2 Preview: web.archive.org/web/200711160...
Digital Foundry Hot Pursuit www.eurogamer.net/articles/di...
Develop Magazine Criterion: issuu.com/develop/docs/dev86_web
A History of Canon: • Video (canon history video)
Acclaim Gimmicks www.gamespot.com/articles/pig...
Acclaim Closes: www.gamespot.com/articles/acc...
Acclaim Sued: www.latimes.com/archives/la-x...
EA Buys Criterion: www.gamesindustry.biz/article...
Burnout Revenge Preview: www.ign.com/articles/2005/06/...
Alex Ward Burnout Revenge Interview web.archive.org/web/200602060...
Most Wanted Interview www.gamewatcher.com/news/2012...
Criterion Takes Over Need For Speed www.gameinformer.com/b/news/a...
Criterion Not Planning New Racing Titles web.archive.org/web/201310201...
Founders Leave Studio
www.polygon.com/2014/1/3/5269...
Alex Ward On Burnout’s Successor Dangerous Driving: • Alex Ward On Burnout's...
Whatever Happened to Burnout? www.svg.com/145261/whatever-h...
EA Gothenburg Now Ghost www.destructoid.com/eas-studi...
Ghost Now Working on Need For Speed www.eurogamer.net/ea-gothenbe...
Alex Ward Looks Back www.gamesradar.com/burnouts-c...
Project Epic Adventure: • Criterion Games New Pr...
Project Epic Adventure Cancelled:
www.pcgamer.com/criterions-ex...
00:00 Intro
00:43 Renderware
02:03 Criterion Games
03:07 Burnout 1
04:41 Burnout 2
06:09 Burnout 3
09:03 To Electronic Arts
09:52 Black
11:57 Burnout Revenge
14:17 Paradise
18:18 Need For Speed
19:47 Hot Pursuit (2010)
21:32 Most Wanted (2012)
23:38 The End of an Era
26:08 Conclusion
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Any chance listing all the music used in this video???
Criterion games are one of the studios that defined 2000s gaming. Not only they produced masterpiece after masterpiece themselves they created RenderWare, the engine for even more masterpieces such as 3D GTA games
Criterion was competent to develop the mw12 version bcuz, it was planned to be the sequel of 2005's mw. But as always, EA scrapped it and turn the game into an identity crisis of burnout paradise.
Dude! WTF, how does this have so few views, you did a great job, such an underrated channel. I grew up with B3: Takedown and after replaying it last year all the way to the end I'm so happy for how well it held up over almost two decades. Renderware powered some of our favorite games and Criterion made some of the greatest games even released.
Criterion will always be my favourite when it comes to game development
Amazing video production and editing. The quality and presentation of the first 5 minutes alone gave me a reason to subscribe. Keep it up!
I'm big fan of Criterion Games! I Grow up with their Burnout franchise and some NFS game they made, now I excited when NFS Unbound was developed by that game studio. Can't wait to see it!
I thought the same and bought NFS unbound just to get disappointed. Criterion is the studio you knew before. The founders left, and majority of the original devs were replaced.
I loved burnout but Black was my jam. It captures the action flicks of the 80s with the Tom Clancy stories form the early 2000s.
Thanks for this retrospective, it's bittersweet but captivating
I really love Black too. Wish it was easier to emulate though! had a hell of a time getting it to work right
This video is insanely high quality! I've never seen someone cover Criterion so well on RUclips before! Absolutely fantastic and of course I'm subscribing!
Great retrospective! This was so we'll put together. Another story about a small developer being pumped full of air as the industry forced growth in those boom years. Imagine a world where these teams kept the same scope and scale throughout the 2000s and 2010s. What would that look like now?!
well, I think we'd have a lot more interesting ideas floating around, tbh
I play Burnout 3: Takedown not only to relive my childhood, but just to appreciate how much love and passion Criterion put into the series. It’s such a shame that they’re now nothing more but a mere shell of its former self. R.I.P. Criterion. A lost company that will never be forgotten.
They aren't closed. They're literally developing the next NFS
@@ashar8192 EA brother codemasters will help them
@@ashar8192 yes you say that but the developers who made those games so great in the past all left the studio like with bioware just because the studio still exists and makes games doesn't mean the people are still there and the quality stays the same
@@robbert1300 true. Matt Webster is still there though
@@ashar8192 They still exist but most of their staff was laid of after MW2012, as the video stated. Also in the last 10 years many of the remaining staff moved to other projects/companies or probably have even retired.
You'll probably only have a handful of the original staff, at best, working on the new NFS
This was a nice video to watch and enjoy today and good editing man :]
I really enjoyed this thank you. You are criminally undiscovered.
Shoved this on for background viewing but it's TOO GOOD I'll have to save it for my full attention later
I hope you will have a million subs asap, you are deserve this kind a numbers
Keep doing pal you are doing great 👍🏻
You sir, just gained a subscriber. SUPERB quality!
What a great video essay and production quality! You earned a new subscriber :)
Welcome aboard!
Solid, well researched, and your video-essay voice is getting pretty fuckin' good.
How does this guy not have 20,000+ subs?! Video quality is amazing!
Fitting that i found this with EA showing what Criterion has been working on, great video!
It's a literal crime that this doesn't have at least several hundred thousand views. Come on RUclips, do something. The quality and research that went into this stands toe to toe with the big ones out there.
also instant sub of course. i want to see more from you, keep pushing.
Awesome video !
Awesome video man. Miss the old burnout days :(
Yo bro please don't ever stop making videos like these!
I'm physically incapable of stopping, so don't worry!
Not enough people bring up Criterion, so thank you for posting this video. They were bold in the gaming space. Just look at what they did with the burn out series before paradise came out. Sad that they disbanded, would love to see remasters of all their games.
Great vid!
How you don't have at least 100k subscribes yet? Just how? This is quality content, AMAZING CONTENT
I deeply miss the Burnout series. I'm currently playing through them in progression and Burnout 1, 2 and 3 are actually new to me as I started with Burnout Revenge. It's crazy how each game is slightly different from each other. Burnout 1 is a pure arcade game and is actually difficult to finish a race without crashing like a dozen times into traffic. Burnout 2 is more fun and a little easier at times, and it even introduced the Crash mode. Burnout 3 really is like cocaine or something; I loved the introduction of licensed music and the Crash mode is way more fun (even if there are too many Crash events throughout the singleplayer), but I also find it harder than the following games to take down opponents. Burnout Revenge introduces traffic checking and offers shortcuts and insane take down opportunities, and I think I prefer the soundtrack to Revenge over 3. Burnout Dominator felt like a step back and does feel like a weaker entry, but it removed traffic checking and made the game feel closer to Burnout 3 than Revenge. Finally, Burnout Parade is just whole different experience with the open-world and even implementing three different boost types, and the online was a blast, too.
I've even played BLACK for the first time recently and it's an insane game. A really fun FPS game where every weapon feels powerful. I don't care much for Criterion's Need for Speed games, but I absolutely loved Criterion across the PS2 generation.
This channel is SO underrated man, the quality is really good, keep it up!
ps: I really miss burnout :c
Kim Justice is another one that never gets justice. No pun intended. I don't know what is going on or whether people are just stupid in general to miss out on such great content.
you should have talked about need for speed most wanted 2012 alpha build, and how the game was supposed to be a mw 05 sequel with actual story and pursuit breakers and gritty atmosphere.
criterion have done so much and its shows in the alpha build of the game, only to be taken by EA because they want to sell the game, all that work gone and forgotten, never to see the light of day.
major parts of the map were cut, like a mining area, a similar place to rosewood from mw 05 and a stadium.
garages were also cut, and it was planned to actually grind for money and by cars instead of finding them in the map.
there was even concept art hinting the game was going to be called most wanted 2.
tbh i dont think mw2012 was a good game if compared to the original
@@cristiadu its fun as fuck tho
Pursuit breakers wouldve made it nicer ngl
596 Subs eh?
I'll make that one more for sure. Great stuff man.
Really really underrated channel the quality of videos are amazing
What music was used at 9:53 sounds amazing!
Thank you! It’s “Commander Impulse” by Divkid
Great Video!
Underrated video whattttt this is so well done.
Also now that Unbound has been release, I have big hopes that Unbound will be the right direction.
this video deserves more views, increíble contenido!!
Wonderful video❤️
Nice video !
FYI, appeared in my recommendations. Great video.
Appreciate you clicking, Joaquin!
im surprised that this video only got 3.5k views, least i could do is give u a sub and a like bro.
top tier content
awesome vid
As a 10 year old or something, I was so mad when they announced that BSI was a console-exclusive, *and* that they were then tasked to work on other games instead of Burnout, that's when I thought to myself, "Criteron aren't coming back, are they?"
and I stand corrected til this day, unfortunately.
Yes thanks for the burnout paradise clips
My favorite in the series
Really cool video. But for me when I was a kid, one of the major factors to why I loved all burnout games was their damage model on the cars which we didn't see that often in games back then. I feel like that should have been mentioned more.
23:30 Its funny bc NFS: Unbound is now under the development of Criterion again.
Great video man! The Best racing franchise of all time
They're personally my favorite developer, ever. They're still in business, I wouldn't say they've fallen.
Criterion had been responsable for my most beloved game of my childhood
Burnout Revenge (Xbox 360) and it's a shame to see them end up like this.
I love how everything looked so metallic hey? . That game had some amazing visuals on 360.
Need for Speed Rivals was my first criterion game, loved it. I have played all of their games though except Burnout 1 2 And Most Wanted
Rivals isn't from criterion lmao
@@TheLazyBoi_ Rivals technically did, they did assisted Ghost Games in the development just like late Black Box did assisted Slightly Mad Studios with NFS Shift back in 2009
what a great video. That old Sony logo was nostalgic. i hope you make more like this.
edit: (shoulda waited) BLACK was my favorite game at, idk 11 or 12 i guess. hated that there was no multiplayer. So good for its time anyway. I remember rumors of the xbox 360 version but as stated, never happened. Crazy.
we’ll see their future with the next need for speed title if successful they will be able to make more need for speed and other ideas if EA expands the studio size.If not…well not think about that. Cool vid btw 👍🏾
another channel that makes superb videos but has less then 1000 subs. really really great work.
Now that Unbound is revealed and it looks like it's getting the formula right. Hope they comeback stronger than ever
bruh it looks exactly like the previous 4 games
@@ileutur6863 moreover I'm not sure if its gonna bring nfs back on track. As far as I see it will be more woke and cringy.
"formula right"
the fuck 💀
And since when they had the right formula. They are just making every racing game they can with mobile physics.
@@mrpekko98 ye that's what I mean by getting it right this time. Heat almost got it but fumbled at the execution. I want this to be great, not good
@@vcp2077 bro if you think nfs is woke then you need help
Black was and still is absolutely amazing!
Nothing else really comes anywhere near the bad ass atmosphere and the big open levels that you got set free in are still some of the best.
The border crossing level is maybe one of my favorites in any FPS. Spent a lot of time trying to do it right back in the day, and loved getting to revisit it for this video. Definitely still holds up!
I always wondered what happened to Criterion after Burnout Paradise since I've been not paying much attention then, ended up discovering this and never really knew how influential they were prior
when playing NFS 2012 I've never been more scared of a ford explorer in my life lmao
Long time caller, first time listner here. I love Criterion, their ability to preserve old films is astounding. BIg fan.
Haven't seen the video yet, but it's in the queue. Keep up the good work
??? Films?
Each NFS Criterion had the reigns on are, in my opinion, some of the greatest games in the franchise. Hot Pursuit captured the NFS of old in a new light, Most Wanted perfected what Paradise offered, and Unbound I personally feel is a huge step in the right direction, it gives me hope for Criterion’s future as long as DICE can stop borrowing them constantly.
It's great that you mentioned 3FE and Dangerous Driving. I feel like not enough people know about that game, it wasn't as good as Burnout but it definitely fills the void of wanting to play Burnout when you can't.
"Burnout Paradise", more like "Burnout AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH I'M SO TIRED"
was a big fan of burnout when i first played legends on the PSP. sad we cant have those simpler days back
nice video
Now they're back for need for speed!
İmpressive, very nice video. has raycevick, whitelight vibes. This goes into my favorite playlist. Cheers
Okay... I'm gonna ask one thng. How in the hell this channel have 400 subs with such good quality videos?
Let's Gooooooooooo
Bro out here making dope ass Documentaries with no Subs. 💀
You got one tho.
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You made a really good and high quality retrospective of Criterion Games Luck Stat.
Can't wait to see if you release a retrospective video on Black Box Studios and their Rise and Fall.
@@testcrit701 I actually do have this on my list. I picked up Skate recently and completely forgot it was done by them as well. Thanks for the kind words!
I keep replaying Burnout 3 Takedown and Revenge since I got them in the 2000s.
They're a very unique racing experience that seems all but forgotten these days. It's a shame, really, because the Burnout series does feel like driving while on a heavy dose of energy drink.
I appreciate the efforts of 3FE in recapturing that racing game essence with its vehicular combat, but the much smaller budget definitely shows, sometimes not in the best of ways, but that could just be me heavily biased by my innumerable sessions with their high budget counterpart.
As much as I'd like to see Burnout resurface, the current gaming landscape doesn't make it worth the risk due to business practices.
Back in the day when EA and Criterion was two of my fav developers of games.
I've never played any of these games, but it's still pog
real shame you didn't talk about burnout dominator, their one last hurrah of old good burnout before becoming NFS
A little sad that dominator is the least loved
Three Fields Entertainment also making Wreckreation in 2023
With THQ Nordic, no doubt they'd make a sandbox racing game that can change the way people make sandbox racing forever
Yeah i hope Three Fields ditched Unreal Engine 4 as it caused nothing but issues with slowdown and glitching in tunnels in previous title on Xbox one X. i actually wrote to the devs at the time and got a nice email back explaining the complications they had with Unreal Engine with their title and they would be releasing updates to hopefully fix it. They did manage to minimise it but it was never completely fixed. I did appreciate the explanation and time they took to respond to me though. They thanked me for taking the time to reach out too. i was impressed at their work ethics in general and that they were always trying to better themselves. Some of the team are actually original Criterion members that started the studio too.
I played burnout revenge with my grandpa way back and played burnout paradise and had a lot of fun in both
i still think Burnout 2 easily had the best overall tracks and was my favourite on original Xbox by far. Great video all the same. I really enjoyed it. I never really got into the more over the top party mode style takedowns of later games even though i finished them all. I just preferred the actual racing and tried to make it through the main game without crashing. I loved the junctions in Burnout 2 though.
Burnout 3 Takedown has had such a significant impact on me. It still remains the game that has given me the most Joy. It's the only game I never go bored of (and I had played it for just over 10 Years, before the Disk and my PS2 gave up on life).
It had a huge impact on the the Music I would choose to grow up listening to especially as a teenager. Every cell of my body fell in love with Pop-punk.
Even tho I liked Revenge too, there's just something about Takedown. Maybe it's the more detailed Car Crashes, or the superior soundtrack. I feel it's definitely the unshakable "Feel good vibe". Revenge felt a bit too gritty. Maybe unnecessarily so.
I had a friend who used to play the demo version of the game on his Underground 2 disk more than he played the OG game!
What was really addicting was definite the sense of speed. It was soooo fast, there's no game like it even after almost 2 decades. There's a reason why IGN still regards it the best Arcade racing game of all time! As well as the employees regularly partake in competitions within their offices every week.
Gaming just isn't the same anymore. From the past 12 years, it's been all about Graphics and Immersion, but where's the fun stuff? It's crazy tho, the more gaming hardware improves, the less fun they become. People in the 70s were having an absolute blast by using a line to hit a dot across the screen.
Anyway, I was wondering if you would be up for recommendations? If you are able to, then I would highly recommend you to check out these 2 games- War of The Monsters, Def Jam: Fight For NY. You may have heard of the latter.
WoTM is such an underrated gem! For a game released in 2003, I think it was one of the best ones. FFNY still remains the most in depth combat in a fighting game ever. The sheer amount of moves you can utilise, it's absolute madness! I still can't comprehend how Fighting games haven't picked up on it. I'm pretty sure because they've always been made with Competitiveness as the main priority, than fun.
Hopefully you'll check them out. I've subbed because your content is pretty good 🙌
Always loved Criterion, their games are made with passion and always a step in innovation. Hope they get Unbound right
Looks like a rise could happen again
I've been playing some Need for Speed games these last few months + Burnout Paradise.
And I have to say, I kinda fell in love with Criterion's Need for Speed.
And even if I have great respect for the classic games developed by BlackBox, I just liked Criterion's approach more.
With it's "Burnout like" gameplay, and no visual customization.
Yeah, I also know that a lot of people like customizing their cars but, I'm one of those few exceptions. Especially when I played OG Most Wanted and saw my rivals with awful aero kits and wings and I was like: "no! You cannot do that to a poor Golf GTI"
Their games, even if they had a lot of similarities, they somehow were different at the same time. And were just fun, looked nice, sounded nice, and played really well.
It's something that I miss about not only modern racing games, but modern gaming in general.
Fairly polished, and fun games.
BOY DO I HAVE NEWS FOR YOU. Criterion is lead developer for the new nfs title
It shows already as it appears to bring back fun which is missing from so many games today.
*Criterion with that dog logo man,good times in Burnout 3*
When I received my review copy for Takedown back in the day, it came with a promo gift, boxers that had a tire track printed on them and a message too, something along the lines (but not accurate) "don't shit your pants" Maybe they should've given a bag of cocaine instead.
That's a *very good* marketing bit though. I'm very jealous
9:51 me: *eargasm*
I'm glad to find out that BLACK is actually a very popular fps title. I would literally ask my friends if they'd ever heard of such title, let alone play it, and nope.... no one knew about it. I was like how tf could a awesome and innovative fps title like that in the early 2000s not get the recognition it deserved! Even in the later years, I would ask if anyone had played it, and they would ask "you mean Black Ops?"
But after watching this video, I'm glad it's being showed.
BLACK was literally the best game for me in my childhood, I have put hundreds of hours into that game, and sure it's just the same 8 missions, with the same enemies, in the same spots, and sure it's got a very short and lackluster campaign. But it's not really about all that. It's gun pr0n at its finest. If you like going "boom boom, bang, bang brrrrrttttttt" the BLACK is the game for you. Straight shooting gallery and it does it in such a beautiful manner that no other game has ever been able to accomplish
it is actually backwards compatible on Series X and S too. The lighting is phenomenal for such an old console game. To me it has that single player fun factor of playing something like Call of Duty Black Ops single player campaigns. I miss that those don't get made anymore.
burnout 3 takedown is the only car racing game i have seen non-car people to enjoy without boredom (i´m not including mario kart)
Revenge was very similar in terms of feel and visuals, except browner overall, but it really fundamentally changed the gameplay by having you check traffic. I still prefer Takedown as it's the best in the series, but Revenge has a spot in its own right as a different beast entirely. It's a game changing mod to arguably the best racing game ever.
From what we've seen in their new title NFS Unbound, it is looking like an actual video game. Still have to wait for release to see if it can compete against other titles, even after disapproval of their art style.
You can at least turn off all the fancy extra effects so they realised not everyone wanted that which is cool.
Everything EA touches, kills it.
Codemasters could be killed at this point. But they must NOT kill CM.
No? FIFA still alive
@@TheDude-xp4vb FIFA its like the beast that feeds from dead developers killed by EA.
i adore burnout paradise, its by far my favourite in the series and i have no complaints about it except from the crash and drive away cams sometimes being too long
Sadly there is not manual transmission option in mw12
my mom really loves playing burnout revenge and wish she can slam cars like in the game irl
Burnout Paradise - I really want this game. Where do I buy a physical copy that I can own forever, with all the patches and DLC included? Oh right, I can't buy a complete copy on physical media because gaming today is completely tied to remote servers. Either you have to download the game itself and have it forever locked to the system that downloaded it, the game needs to be activated, the game needs to be online as a form of DRM, or letting the game itself go online and connect to the company's servers is the only way to get patches and DLC, none of which can be properly backed up.
Gone are the days of actually owning a copy of a game. Now you just rent it on a semi-permanent basis. :(
Thank you for this. Criterion is one of my favorite game studios. I love HP 2010 and MW 2012 was such an underrated game both with criterions unique charm to them. I also need to play the Burnout series. I hope to see criterion back in action with nfs unbound
They should have fixed the loading bugs and added free burn challenges in most wanted 2012. That would've lengthen its online life and replayability.
Does EA know anything about Video Games or is just only one guy standing in the Dev Studios of all the sub companies and saying time is running?
Yeah well, Criterion has moved on now. They're making a new NFS game called NFS Unbound, and I honestly liked the artistic style of the game. It gave NFS a new feeling. Let us hope that this game will be better.
Really loved all the facts and am sad at the state of criterion, If the truth about what would make NFS Great again is to BRING BACK BLACK BOX GAMES 😂, great video man 🔥
Burnout takedown was the pinnacle
Burnout 2 was my first ever game, and I'm absolutely biased towards it. It is the best burnout game, the best game in general, for my eyes. I've not played every burnout, only the most popular ones. Takedown was okay for me, I wasn't a huge fan on the licensed music, mostly from me being so used to the extremely fun original music of burnout 2, then paradise was certainly fun, but progression was sorta a mixed bag for me, even now I can't tell if I enjoyed or didn't like the game. Being able to toggle which songs play where was great though, soundtrack is always big for games like that. Burnout 2 will, however, always keep a high rank in my favorite games, the tracks were great to race on, the music never gets old, the pursuit levels were amazing fun, the progression worked well, and even with how much I've played, and how much I've gotten a gold medal on every race, and even unlocked the secret drivers ed car for getting a gold in every drivers ed mission, it's still a game I haven't yet beaten..
that damn custom muscle pursuit, it's so hard I've never beaten it. Only gotten close once, with him at 1hp bar left, 20 feet before the finish. Someday, I'll 100% that game, but I don't know when, especially with my PS2 not being the best quality anymore after the decades of use.
Picked up Burnout 2 again the other week, STILL holds up! They really did lose something after Burnout3.
Yeah i love burnout 2 on Xbox . I have all of the burnout games but 2 is my favourite. I preferred the junctions when you had to me much smarter about it like in 2 because you didn't have all the fancy extras . You really had to watch where you placed the car at a junction to cause damage.
I think it got worse after burnout revenge
i guess burnout legends was a myth