To understand what genre the new car arcade should be classified into Blur from the developers of the Xbox exclusive Project Gotham Racing, you need to at least refresh your memory of those glorious moments that you once spent in the embrace of Death Track: Resurrection, or at least the recent Burnout Paradise. IN Bizarre Creations are now busy with an extremely noble cause – the revival of a long-forgotten and covered with green mold, but once very revered and popular genre of fighting car arcades. Moreover, unlike racing amateurs from Voronezh SkyFallen, from the creators PGR there is every chance to achieve the desired triumph. There are, it seems to us, more than enough reasons for this.

The Club meets Burnout

Meet me, Blur – a frivolous, at first glance, car arcade game with licensed cars, the pace and speed of the best parts Need for Speed and the indispensable entertainment of Burnout Paradise. It would not be superfluous to repeat that it is being developed by honored workers from a company that has made consoles for two generations from Microsoft almost the main races. To date Bizarre Creations is no longer in a creative alliance with the “white-green” camp, preferring cooperation with Activision Blizzard. For us specifically, this rushing of developers from one publisher to another is important for this: having lost support Microsoft, creators of the series PGR at the same time, they freed their future racing creations from forced exclusivity, a kind of “tying” to one single platform – this was already the case with PGR. We can now confidently say: Blur will definitely appear on personal computers, and, most likely, simultaneously with its console counterparts.

Blur – this is, first www.boylesportscasino.co.uk of all, about how to destroy your opponent’s car with the help of a handy energy blaster, and only then about the aesthetics of driving an expensive sports car. By the way, in the asset Bizarre Creations listed as an extremely arcade shooter The Club, not without a certain charm. For example, it had all the attributes of typical slot machine fun – a time counter, a set of inscriptions in the spirit of “Double Bonus” and “Triple Bonus”, spinal gameplay and a frantic rhythm. So, the developers are going to transfer all the best developments of the shooter The Club to Blur. That is, modes with a limited time reserve, various inscriptions in the spirit of “Destroy three more to get a new six-speed gearbox or gun,” even the architecture of the levels – everything will be built and modeled as if in the target platforms Blur priority is given to “iron boxes” with wide-format displays and painted sides, and even with high-strength control buttons to boot.

At the same time, one cannot lose sight of the fact that the game promises to be more than spectacular (now you know that we mentioned our beloved Burnout Paradise for a reason). The first-class visuals with its stylish effects are going to work for the benefit of this specific indicator. And what will warm the soul and excite the minds of racing fans is the most pleasant realization of the fact that absolutely all cars in Blur – licensed. Agree that in the same GTA 4, crushing iron and scattering fragments of windshields of cars everywhere, on which the nameplate of an expensive BMW or Maserati model shines on the hood, would be much more interesting than doing the same manipulations with faceless troughs, which only from afar resemble their real prototypes. At least by this circumstance Blur compares favorably with its “colleagues in the shop”. And if you look at the available screenshots, it’s easy to guess that, paying tribute to realism by including licensed cars in the game, Bizarre Creations are not going to move further in this direction. That is, we, apparently, expect spectacular special effects with advanced and far from Newtonian physics, a riot of colors of the most unnatural colors and shades, and, of course, the opportunity to attach a plasma gun to a sports car and replace the factory headlights with first-class lasers. And all of the above is not at all an invention of the author of these lines, but features announced by the developers Blur. It’s a shame that the recognized mastodons of the auto industry – Ferrari, for example – will definitely not be there. Just like motorcycles. It’s a pity – two-wheeled “shells” in Blur would look more than organic.

You can’t stop driving beautifully

Talking about a new game from the developers of the famous series PGR, it is very difficult to resist comparing a new project with its predecessors. Perhaps most striking is the special, reverent attitude Bizarre Creations to the creation of routes and adjacent structures. The most beautiful cities in racing were created by the creators PGR. And fortunately, Blur in this regard, it will only be an ideological successor to all the studio’s past projects. At the moment, tracks in Barcelona, ​​Los Angeles and San Francisco have already been announced as arenas for splashing in clots of blue protoplasm. Will there be Blur loved by all Russian-speaking fans of creativity Bizarre Creations stage in St. Petersburg – still unknown.

Multiplayer in Blur will. For owners of consoles and large-screen TVs, the developers have separately provided a classic split-screen for four players. The online mode is not going anywhere – the joy of a real and full-fledged "cartoon" will be equally experienced by both owners of personal computers and owners of consoles – Blur there will definitely be regular deathmatch, team deathmatch and even real co-op. Maximum number of participants – twenty.

Not everything is known for certain about the soundtrack yet. The most important thing that we managed to find out is that the developers decided to abandon the usual classic and almost peaceful melodies in favor of lighter and more crazy compositions.

Plot in Blur it will be purely for show. And where has it been seen that in a car arcade with energy guns and lasers instead of headlights there is drama with at least the slightest hint of seriousness? She just doesn’t belong here.

So what do we end up with?? About a year later, the developers of the aristocratic series Project Gotham Racing will show themselves and the products of their creativity to the public in a slightly different light. The soothing and measured stages in rainy St. Petersburg will be replaced by a “laser-protoplasma” show in Barcelona and a “survival” race rolled into one. The scale will be noticeably reduced, and the soundtrack playlist will consist of analogues of the recent Thunder and Invaders Must Die from Prodigy – the classics will sink into oblivion. Bizarre, Of course it’s a big risk. But we are more than confident of success Blur – there are real professionals behind its development.