This year's Blur is slick, focused and smartly edited.īut it'd be naive to expect the creator of five highly praised racing games to simply pump out a mindless mum-and-dad Kart entry: power-ups are clearly well-balanced and abilities (like the aforementioned Shock) limit their payload to a few yards in front of the lead car, meaning skilled players can dodge them. Last year's game had a clear identity crisis as Bizzare attempted to please both hardcore fans and less corner-carving savvy gainers, and ended up satisfying no-one at all. Having the acclaimed racing house finally pick a side of the fence is great to see.
All of these attacks on your car will leave you shouting and swearing at your monitor, while grinning wildly. Likewise dropping a mine, unlike the dull tin cans in last year's build, now casts an angry and massive black hole waiting to explode in the faces of any unlucky BMW that drifts into its path while getting annihilated by a first placehoming Shock inches from the finish line is now part and parcel of the experience.
However, Bizarre have now clearly decided to make a racer that lies at the Mario end of the spectrum - and it's all the more fun for it.įiring Shunt - a sort of electric red shell - is now a violent, satisfying barrel roll of death cast on your unlucky motorcar target, and, like the Mario Kaii projectile, you can fire it backwards in your chasing opponents' faces, which is ever so satisfying. On paper Blur is Project Gotham Racing blended with Mario Kart. But 12 months make all the difference in the wonderful world of game development, and Liverpool-based Bizarre Creations - responsible for the excellent Project Gotham Racing series - has put some roar back into its racer's whimpering exhaust. When It Was seen last year, Blur was a bit average. However, this doesn't extend to tracks, which are based in such diverse locales as California, Barcelona and Hackney. Instead, Blur promises intense wheel-to-wheel action, as you trade paint with opponents who are rarely less than a couple of feet away from you in ferocious 20-car races.įeaturing a slew of varied licensed cars (and a made-up one), which can all take damage and even burst into flames, the trademark authenticity is in evidence. Ward also talks about the concept of "player frustration," an example of which involves spinning off at the first corner and then spending the next 10 laps hopelessly trying to make inroads on the leaders. So Blur is a step away from the trend for inaccessible racers that require you to hit the precise apex of every bend to stay in contention. Bizarre Creations are adamant that you won't be throwing shells at other cars and dropping bananas in front of them, although communications bloke Ben Ward defied PR advice by telling us that "it's like an adult Super Mario Kart".
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