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Blur screens hit the web, are surprisingly sharp

by Ben Gilbert on May 19th 2009 3:15PM

After we found out earlier today that Bizarre Creations' Blur would be speeding to store shelves this fall, we thought that'd be all the Blur news the game's publisher, Activision, was ready to drop in a single day. Turns out we were wrong, as a handful of screens for the new racer are clearly available at Gamersyde -- and now right below in our gallery.

The cars are plenty nice and the brightness has apparently been turned up to 11, but most importantly, we get an early glimpse of those "Mario Kart meets Forza" special effects. Seems as though electricity is the effect of the day, as nearly every shot we've seen features fractured blue light from end to end. No oil slicks that send cars careening to their doom? No carefully placed explosive barrels intended for multiple flips? For shame, Activision. For shame.

Update: Added a gallery! Enjoy:

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Tags: activision, bizarre-creations, blur, Microsoft, racing, screenshots, Xbox-360

Reader Comments (34)

meh?

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hm?e

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I know they are just pictures and all but come on Bizarre, PGR4 looked a million times better than these pictures. You can do better than that. I am disappointed :(

And people wonder why E3 isn't open to the general public...

These are EARLY screens, guys.

and?? If Bizarre wants to hook us, they need to show pictures on par with the PGR series. If not, they will have another game fumble like they did with The Club.

Wow I know these are early but that doesn't look like a Bizarre game.

The concept sound like Midnight Club 2 which was fun as hell online.
Besides that point the game looks meh.

Whaaaaat?! Looks like it's for Dreamcast.

your avatar made me lol

Aha.

I will play this game... IF

The entire soundtrack is Song 2.

(FACT: Years ago, the first time I drove alone with my license, Song 2 came on the radio and I blasted it... while driving well over the speed limit... good times...)

The images remind me of Motorhead (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorhead_(video_game)), which was a great game... 11 years ago.

Nice, but this doesn't tell me much. I'd rather see some gameplay videos before giving the thumbs up/down.

Yes, the cars dont look impressive. But Im guessing it going to be more stylized. Im sure we will see it in motion at E3.

GUYS ITS OK.

KUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUDOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOS

I refuse to play this game on anything other than a Westinghouse LCD TV with 10ms response time and 800:1 contrast ration... AM I RIGHT??

Little bit of LCD spec motion blur humor? Anyone? Bueller?

lol nerd.

+1 image quality

+1 spec nerdery

-25 opposite sex appeal

Someone needs a new TV..

Any chance of an article about the game whose title isn't a terrible "blur" pun?

Yeah, I'm waiting to see an article title that says, "New Blur Screenshots! Woohoo!"

You know...like the Blur song?

LOL nice one. Blur is awesome.

I was always a fan of the PGR franchise. I do agree with Bizarre on the fact that Microsoft pushed Forza way more than PGR, which had been there from the start. I am not sure if I am going to like the new path Bizarre is going in. Hopefully it is good. :)

I agree, pgr4 was plain old more fun than forza.
Forza was tedious and time consuming for absolutely no reason. It even became monotonous at times.
PGR4 kept it interesting with different challenges and online racing was a drivers duel, not just who had the best car like forza.

When they switched the ranking system on pgr4, they ruined it forever, one day it's full of races, a day after the switch none at all.

This game blur looks too arcadish.

I was hoping Blur would have more of an Akira-like taillight streak effects, but it looks more like Skynet unleashed a bunch of Terminator cars with all the lightning effects....

I sense a movie coming up: Terminator vs Transformers

Why does this game look like Midnight Club?

it doesn't. midnight club has the best graphics of any racer out there right not

Ummm, I'm pretty sure it leaked somewhere a few months ago that this would be a DOWNLOADABLE game for the consoles, as well as on InstantAction.com for PCs. Did that ever turn out to be true? Because if that's using Torque 3D, then that means it's gonna be running in a browser, and dang... that looks awesome for a browser game.

Nevermind, just found out that InstantAction's upcoming arcade racing game USED to be called Blur, but they changed it because Activision trademarked that name for THEIR racer right around the same time. Oh well, still hopeful about this game.

Bikes oh god please add bikes, Bizarre

Wow, that looks aws..ful :(
There are by far too many arcade racers in stores already. We need some proper simulations NOW! Or at least a few half-realistic Arcade Racers like PGR4. Those stupid Power-Ups were the only thing that ruined the fun of MC:LA and now there's a whole game based on that? What a waste of precious real world car licenses.

lol, cars casting spells.

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