Bizarre Creation’s new racer revealed, called Blur
Via French gaming magazine Joypad, it has been revealed that Bizarre Creations will be doing something a bit different for their next racing effort. That next game will be titled Blur.
Even though Blur contains your regular race to the finish-line gameplay, it will up the ante by allowing use of various weapons against opponents. The weapons will include the likes of mines and shields, which hints the game will be something like Wipeout - but on four wheels.
The game will also allow cars to get much more damaged than other racers on the market, with multiple crumple zones on all the cars that react differently to each collision. Races in the game will take place is various real life cities, including San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, London, Tokyo and more.
A huge part of the game will be multiplayer focused, with stats getting tracked via unique identity cards for each player. The option to post challenges to other players will be available too, as will normal racing sessions.
The game is set to be released on Xbox 360 and PS3 by the end of 2009.
There are plenty of options if you want a racer without weapons. There are also plenty of options if you want a racer with weapons, but the vast majority of them are shit. If Blur plays like PGR with guns I think it's worth keeping an eye on. I'm glad they're not just doing the same thing over again at least.
This could be heaps cool. Plus San Fran is back in. How cool will it be to launch over someone at full speed land in front of them and drop a mine on their bumper?
If they do this well with decent balance I reckon it could be a winner.
While we're all praising Bizarre, how many people played (and loved) The Club? At last count, it was tomby.
If the driving model is the same as PGR and there's an option to not use weapons, I'll definitely grab it. Right now, there's not a driving game that feels as good as their last racer.
Candy: Split/Second is by the guys who did Pure, yeah? That could be worth keeping an eye on, too. And the new NFS (Shift?). Could be a good year for slightly-arcadey racers
Kinda the point I was trying to make, though... since becoming third-party, they've been largely average (with the exception of Geo Wars, but that's not exactly deep). Sure, it's only one (and a bit) game(s), but still
It's a promotional website for the new Ferrari California, with the usual stuff like configuring one, sights and sounds and that sort of stuff. I'm going to have mine in Blu Mirabeau with Nero trim BTW. For wheels I'll take the 20" standard diamond with yellow brake callipers.
Anyway, click on "Virtual Test Drive" down near the Configurator and you get a video of it hooning around in GT5P. Ferrari must be pretty happy about the quality of car models in GT5 to do that. It includes some Nürburgring too by the look of it.
marto wrote:yeah I'm interested in this. Interstate '76 anyone?
Buy the ps3 version please.
Bizarre make fun racing games that have never been terribly realistic so I don't see why this can't be a quality, fun game. I would love to have a cars-with-weapons game that actually featured a quality drive model + AAA visuals.
