Blur's Bringing Its Brand Of Combat Racing To The PS3 In May.
Bizarre Creations’ announced that its power-up focused racing title Blur will hit the UK on May 28th. The game was due in November but has since been pushed back for an extra lick of polish or two. Interestingly, that’s in a similar window to Disney’s destructive racer Split/Second.
Decisions, decisions. Although arcade racing games are one of our favourite genres, so we’ll probably be playing both games to death.
It’s a funny one Blur. It’s coming from a team with a fantastic heritage — the Metropolis Street Racer and Project Gotham Racing franchises were both absolutely fantastic. But Blur’s never looked quite so exciting; particularly not for a Bizarre Creations game.
This latest trailer makes more sense however. It’s clear Bizarre are aiming for a super social game, and in many ways that has its own niche now. It’s rare people group around one console anymore, and while this game will obviously have online multiplayer, it’s exciting to see that Mario Kart legacy return to Playstation 3.
Bizarre Creations’ weapons-based shooter, Blur, will not make its planned November release date. Like most of the other games this Holiday, it’s been delayed. According to Activision CEO Mike Griffith, this is a strategic move to “fully optimize the vision [Bizarre] set out to create for Blur including a distinctive and groundbreaking multiplayer mode that will appeal to a broad audience”.
We wonder what else will get delayed this year? There’s not much left is there?
Boy are we bombarded with great racing games lately. With Split/Second on the horizon, the excellent DiRT 2 now off our review schedule and Gran Turismo 5 rumoured, what space will there be for the Blur? Given the developer’s pedigree, probably quite a lot, after all, this is Bizarre Creations’ latest franchise. And from the trailer we get the impression it’s going to be a lot like Mario Kart crossed with old school Need For Speed.
Which is awesome.
The game is also set to have support for the popular social networking service, Twitter. Basically the game will send out updates on your Twitter account when you do something notable in the game, which is pretty neat and something we expect to happen for wider networking services such as the Playstation Network and XBOX Live eventually. For now though, this is the first step.
Bizarre Creations have a fantastic track-record so it’s hard not being excited about upcoming combat racer Blur. With the release pencilled for November, as usual there are a number of preorder bonuses popping up around the net, in this case for the USA.
GameStop will offer the “Multiplayer Advantage Booster Kit” that offers “unparalleled multiplayer benefits”. Hmm. You get the super powerful Ford Bronco, an extra multiplayer mode and some bonus cash for upgrades.
GameCrazy are offering you double cash for your first three single player races (really!) and Best Buy are letting you unlock the Dodge Hennessey Viper from day one. If ever there was a reason as to why these preorder bonuses totally shouldn’t happen, this is it.
So Blur might end up looking like a mix between Need For Speed, Wipeout and Mario Kart but you have to remember that this is coming from the guys who made the Project Gotham Racing games. As such, if there’s one thing those peeps can do, it’s make an awesome racing game. Which we’re hoping Blur will be. There are a lot of other good racing games planned to come out later this year and interestingly they all have their own hooks.
It’ll be interesting to see which one comes out on top.
