![]() ![]() Within seconds of starting your first race you’ll be smashing, EMP-zapping, barging and generally bullying your way to the chequered flag, trailing black smoke and a steady stream of metal and glass. Implicitly pitched as Project Gotham with weaponry, the design is focused firmly on immediacy and fulfilling the player’s deepest, darkest motorway desires. Blur was accessible, appealing and very, very fast. ![]() Players were showered with enough rewards to put a Pop Cap title to shame as they got to grips with a driving model more akin to the high-velocity showboating of F-Zero than a conventional racer. An unfortunate side effect of this otherwise welcome reshuffle of the calendar was that a number of smaller titles simply slipped under the radar, including Bizarre Creations’ high-octane racer, Blur.Ī clean break from Bizarre’s increasingly dry and serious Project Gotham Racing series, Blur’s arrival injected fresh fun into the arcade racing genre blending the real-world racing of Project Gotham with the explosive aggression of Wipeout. Even the biggest names shied away from locking horns with the blockbuster franchise, the bulk of releases instead opting for release in the spring of 2010. Christmas came late for the videogames market of 2009, thanks to the marketing behemoth that was Modern Warfare 2.
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