You know I’d forgotten about Blur, actually, and I’d skipped a lot of the initial bout of excitement over the game. Seems it is still Windows-bound, however, with a rough “end of 2009″ release date, and so we’re eventually going to get a taste of Bizarre Creations “power-up, power-up, power-up” philosophy for their hyperbolic new racing game. They’ve stuck some of their developer types in front of a camera to talk about it, and mixed that with some in-game footage, all funkily edited up, of course. It’s looking rather… colourful.
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I hate racing games, but I love wipeout. The one they made for that thurr Game-Playing Station Portable, I played to 100% completion (gold on every track).
If they made one/something similar (audiosurf with racing, note: not an audiosurf criticism) for the PC (TrackMania isn’t shiney enough), my bowels would have a pleasure overload.
I love racers with a twist, and so does my Wife, but she’s also a maaaaassive car fanatic – we used to own a Mustang convertible and it was her pride & joy. The licensed cars + powerups has pretty much sold me on this one.
Hopefully when your last place you don’t get special items that make you able to get to first place in a matter of seconds.
“We have nitro!”, how novel :) Looks fun, though, but… shallow. So far seem that it will work as an instant action satisfier, yet not for long.
I watched that video without sound, and so have little idea what’s going on, but I like the ratio of Cars+Fastness to NotCars+Dentists.
Massive Damage! Does it have giant crabs?
This could be interesting, proper arcade-y racer, not NFS that pretends to be simulation. I loved burnout and flatout, and this has similar vibe.
Just add miniguns to the cars, and this could be the Death Rally 3D I always wanted.
Looks alright, but I prefer the demolition racing that Split Second seems to promise (dont know if it will be on PC, but not a problem for me).
SS also seem to overshadow it from the press reports for E3.
Too many racing games coming out soon! “Blair” falls behind Dirt 2 and NFS: Shift (if the in car view can be enforced) for me. Powerups in racing games are just an annoyance, the better driver often loses and that aint my shtick. 20 cars on the track sounds nice though.
@Gene: NFS is pretending to be a sim now (see NFS: Shift, by the guys who made GTR, GT Legends, GTR2 and maybe RACE/RACE07/GTR Extreme/STCC The Game).
And to think, I was just wondering last night how hard it would be to get a good wipEout game working on PC. The PSP versions were excellent, and wipEoutHD is seriously making me consider the PS3.
I’ve loved Bizarre’s games that don’t involve cars. Geometry wars and The Club are a tonne of fun, but I kind of hate racing sims. I’ll be open minded about this for sure though.
I’m pretty sure I saw a couple of shots of the bridge over Kingsland Road by the junction with Old Street, but the problem with London Streets is that they are all so fussy and narrow that they have to be widened and homegenised out to make them playable. This is a shame.
Mind you I think you can see me puking into a bin in one of the shots so +1 for accuracy there.
I’m not a huge racing fan, but Blair does seem interesting.