For trivia relating to Burnout Paradise, click here.
- Breakout Hit: Burnout 3: Takedown turned Criterion Games from a relatively obscure developer of the RenderWare engine and games designed to showcase said engine into a household name.
- Cut Song: Like the first two games, 3 originally had music composed for the game, but when Acclaim went bankrupt and the game was picked up by EA, Criterion used licensed tracks instead. However, these songs were incorporated into the soundtrack of Paradise. Also, a few are used in 3, such as for the start screen ("Ozone" in Paradise) and car unlock ("Betty's Last Voyage" in Paradise).
- No Port For You: While the first two games were on the GameCube, Takedown and Revenge weren't. An official reason was never given, but it's generally agreed that the GameCube's lack of online play was to blame.
- What Could Have Been:
- Going by the music selection in Paradise, Burnout 3 was originally going to have an original score similar to the first two games, but were eventually replaced with the EA Trax. The only remnants of this original score in the game itself are the title screen music and the new car unlock piece, named Ozone and Betty's Last Voyage (respectively) in their Burnout Paradise versions.
- Similarly to the above, one of the tracks in Paradise listed for the original Burnout is called Tokyo Nightsnote and has a strong Asian flavor to it, suggesting a Far East track was originally in the works, speculated to be named "Makaze City"
. "Orimental" (which is only in Paradise) appears to be the "tragic" variant. - Numerous traffic cars were cut before publication; police cars, scooters, motorbikes, fire engines, and farm trucks were going to appear. It's unknown why they were cut from the game.
- Concept art also revealed that there were also going to be two extra playable cars; a Luxury Coupe, and a Minivan. Neither made it into the final game...or even got a model, for that matter.
- Working Title: Driving Hero.
- 3 had two tentative subtitles ("Fuel Injection" and "Crash + Burn") before settling on Takedown while Revenge was codenamed "Rush Hour".
