May 2010′s Game Releases!

Blur

Name: Blur
Platforms: PC, PS3, Xbox360
Genre: Racing
Developer: Bizarre Creations
Publisher: Activision
Worldwide Release Date: 25-28 May 2010
Local (SA) Release Date: 28 May 2010 (expected)
Prices (approximately)
PC – R339 Buy now through eDreams & eGamer
PS3 – R508 Buy now through eDreams & eGamer
360 – R508 Buy now through eDreams & eGamer

Summary

Blur is a hellishly exciting, fast paced racing title that promises to lift arcade-style action and realistic driving physics to new heights. The sole aim, as you’d expect, is to get to the finish line and claim victory over your opponents, but winning isn’t that simple. Aside from driving skill and using your car as a battering ram in an attempt to get your opponents off the track, players will be able to get their hands on power ups that can cause huge amounts of chaos and provide a welcome advantage to the user. Power ups can give yourself a huge speed boost, blast your opponents out of the way with massive amounts of energy and more.

Blur, aside from its single player career mode, features split screen local play that supports up to 4 players and an online multiplayer mode that pits up to 20 racers against each other.

Key Features:

• Power-Ups That Shock Your Socks Off – Drivers will collect and use addictive and intense power-ups throughout each race, including the ability to blast other cars out of the way with huge bursts of energy, boost speed with nitros, drop mines and even generate defensive shields to fend off other racers. Players can use each power-up independently or stack three of the same and combo them strategically to multiply the effect on the competition.
• Racing for All Gamers – Blur moves beyond traditional racers by taking genre staples, including licensed cars, photo-realistic graphics and real-world locations and combining them with gameplay designed completely to focus on ‘fun’, featuring intuitive pick-up-and-play controls, a unique and innovative social network style user interface, intense power-ups, and races where players are always in the pack challenging for the lead from beginning to end. Blur is for all types of gamers, regardless of experience or skill level.
• Social Network Interface – The game’s new, innovative social network user interface is designed to evolve dynamically as players compete in different races, make new friends, rivals and fans, and connect with other racers both in game and in real life. Gamers interact with one another through messaging, trading opinions, challenges and images, and learn what’s going on in the Blur world, including locating where and when the next big races are happening, rallying their fans for support, and taking up challenges designed to suit their specific racing style.
• It Wouldn’t Be Racing Without Multiplayer – Blur offers gamers a new kind of racing experience that allows them to race with friends and as part of a network of players in high intensity competition and fun. The game supports competitive and cooperative gameplay, including team racing and objective based events, and also features 4-player split-screen for playing with friends from the comfort of the couch. Blur introduces Custom Groups – where anyone can create unique multiplayer modes based on their favorite ways to play the game. These new modes are then shared through Blur’s social network, expanding the game in ways only limited by the gaming community’s creativity.
• Real-World Cars and Locations – Blur features over 60 licensed cars from which to choose as players race through visually stunning tracks set in real-world locations ranging from L.A. and San Francisco to the streets of Hackney, UK, to the treacherous roads of Barcelona and all the way to Japan. As players progress through the game’s story, they’ll be able to unlock and purchase multiple versions of the cars, each paying homage to different racing cultures, including Rat, Drift, Smooth and Tuner, and each with their own specific performance pros and cons.
• Cinematic Destruction Meets Photo-Realism – CAUTION – Racers may experience insane collisions featuring loads of damage and destruction, with panels crumpling on photo-realistic cars as they flip and roll down the track.

Blur looks to be where exhilarating, adrenaline rush action racing is at its pinnacle. It’s going to be an interesting battle between Blur and Split/Second in May, but we’ll see which of the two comes out on top once they’re both released.

Check out our Blur overview here.