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Bizarre Creations has stepped away from the Project Gotham Racing series with Blur, the team's first game since joining Activision. This "kart racer for grown-ups" combines real-life cars with the weaponized insanity found in the likes of Mario Kart. Tim Stevens jumped behind the wheel to play loads of Blur, and here's a snippet of his thoughts:
"There are multiple gameplay modes at hand here, but the primary one is combat-focused racing. You face off with up to 19 white-knuckled adrenaline junkies and try to complete a number of laps around a variety of circuits faster than everyone else while staying out of trouble and out of those 19 sets of crosshairs.
Scattered about the courses are icons representing each of the eight power-ups available, like the fire-and-forget shunt (ala the red turtle shell), the shock attack (lightning that targets the leaders, not unlike a blue turtle shell), mines, turbo boosts, and shields. Most projectiles can be fired forward or backward and it’s important to use them in both directions. Focus entirely on what’s ahead and an opponent will quickly fill your tailpipe with fire and brimstone, but keep your head on a swivel and you might make it for 30 seconds or so without getting blasted – maybe."
If you played the multiplayer beta and loved it, or you're torn between the three racing games hitting within a week of each other, read Tim's Blur review!
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Macronaut
Maybe if you guys were at least a little smart you would realize that fun can't keep up with frustation when in a system such as blur's which fails miserably more times than succeeds, also it gives no innovative gameplay mechanics and people often say it reminds mario kart because they're dumbasses who never played any other kart racing game in their lives. If you want something unbalanced for the most time even more than split second ( which does offer something at least a little new ) stay with blur, if not wait for another racing game that is actually amazing to come. One thing is to be said, media oftenly makes people of fools just like modern warfare 2 did.
HardcoreTyler
I personally don't understand what everyone's complaining about with Blur. I've played all 3 of the new racers, Split / Second, Blur, and Mod Nation. Blur is by far the best in my opinion. I enjoy the handling (similar enough to PGR3), but mostly I like how intense and just plain fun Blur can be. You can sometimes be in first and end up in last if you don't grab the right power-ups, use them correctly, or take a bad turn. This is of course unless you blast into first and keep your distance. Me and a few friends have had a blast so far with it, and really I think it boils down to all 3 are actually excellent racers for different tastes. Split / Second is much more for racing junkies who like to race, Mod Nation is for the Mario Kart and LBP crowed, and Blur is for people who like to fight their way to the finish line (almost like Twisted Metal Racing).
My money's still on Blur having played all 3, it's just way more fun to me and also I haven't found it hard. I really enjoy the aesthetics and the sound track ( I want a copy of it to just listen to), I'm not quite sure why G4 and other sites have been up in arms against Blur. Games Radar has so far been the most appropriate review for it. Still like it miles better than Mod Nation, and Split / Second was too sloppy with it's drifting for me.
Before you make a judgment on which one is best, do yourself a favor. Give all 3 if you have a PS3 or the 2 of these games a try before you decide on which is right for you. Online gamers who don't care about creating their own characters than just want to get down to business will most likely prefer Blur.
edgeofblade
One more hour til I head toward my Best Buy. I can't wait to race my life away on this game. Could be my Racer of the Year.
Of course, my ROTY will have power-ups or it won't be a candidate at all.
bedrockk
dissapponted to see blur get such a (probably deserved) blas� review, and one less than split/second to boot - not b/c i played either of them (i haven't) but i was caught up in the hype and hope of the prospect, and i wasn't encouraged by split/second's rubberbandy review.
i knew blur & split/second were hitting - what was the third racing game?
so, the question remains: which mediocre game do i buy?
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