Bizarre Creations shows off Blur

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Last month, the developer behind the highly popular Project Gotham series of racing titles, Bizarre Creations, revealed that it was working on a brand new racing series, titled Blur. A month later, the first real details and screenshots have emerged.

Bizarre hopes that Blur will set itself apart from other driving titles by "making racing 'fun' again." According to Bizarre, Blur will support a single player campaign as well as: 20-player online races (both competative and team-based), 4-player split-screen racing and a social 'Custom Groups' feature, which will allow gamers to create their own multiplayer modes based on the way that they like to play the game. Oh, and did we mention weapons?

Blur is set for release later this year on the PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. You can take a gander at the title's first official screenshots in our media panel.

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18 Comments

shiraj

3 years ago

is it deja vu or have I seen this article before :O

Vervain

3 years ago

shiraj wrote

is it deja vu or have I seen this article before :O

Nope it's not deja vu. There was an article about Blur being announced 4 weeks ago just over here.

Sin Ogaris

3 years ago

Those images look absolutely retarded, what is with all the stupid colours everywhere?

hexen

3 years ago

Wow, wonder how the developer will cope with 1/10 reviews :]

Benza

3 years ago

hexen wrote

Wow, wonder how the developer will cope with 1/10 reviews :]

Huh, what?

Seriously I don't understand what you're talking about.

It's a racing game by the same people that did Project Gotham Racing, and none of them have scored below 80 on Metacritic? Why would it score 1 out of 10?

Phreakuency

3 years ago

This looks and sounds like a huge flop in the making.

When they talk about Mario Kart style then try to mix that with realistic-ish graphics, it just doesn't work.

I wonder what the hell they were thinking because their previous games were real good.

tbenton

3 years ago

I don't know about everyone else, but I like the sound of 4-player splitscreen.

Agent 042

3 years ago

Sin Ogaris wrote

Those images look absolutely retarded, what is with all the stupid colours everywhere?

guessing theyre going for a mix of pgr and geometry wars style trippiness for the art style.

Benza

3 years ago

I like the sound of an arcadey racer in the vein of Sanfransico Rush, man those games were the ****.

Mr Waffle

3 years ago

Yeah, I think they'll really have to work hard to sell me on this one...

skrob73

3 years ago

So many cynics, I'm glad as a PS3 owner to be able to get my hands on a racing game by these guys and all power to em for trying something different with the visuals. Far to early for anyone to be bagging out this one!!!

Cyph

3 years ago

"Blink and you'll miss it"
Damn, I wish I did

Benza

3 years ago

http://www.kotaku.com.au/2009/05/blurs-shocking-teaser-trailer/
Teaser trailer.

notsofat

3 years ago

whats with all the hate?

havent you guys ever played that oldschool game rollcage?? it was ultra unrealistic but still one of my favourite racing games. anything to break nfs's clutch on current racing games is a good thing really.

Benza

3 years ago

I'm with notsofat, the old arcadey racers are some of my faviourte racing games, Carmgeddon 2 and Rush 2049 are the bomb.

Karai Pantsu

3 years ago

And yet if this had been marketed as 'Burnout, but with powerups' people would probably be showering it with love...

They have a solid pedigree, I reckon this is one to keep an eye on. Modern racers need more fun and less 'gritty realism' IMO.

Fetidchimp

3 years ago

Well i had no problem with the power ups in midnight club LA, made multiplayer hilarious

Sin Ogaris

3 years ago

I've got nothing against power ups and the like, I just really hate the art direction they've gone for, it's like a major cop out to have everything look like regular old cars and then just chuck some bad lighting effects over the top to mask the "realism".

Those other games mentioned had their own unique styles to the visuals, this looks like PGR with a can of paint spilt on it, which looks bad, game will probably be good (I love PGR) but it doesn't change the fact the visuals scream "half-arsed".

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Australian Release Date:
  26/5/2010 (Confirmed)
Publisher:
  Activision
Genre:
  Racing
Year Made:
  2009
Players:
  4

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