Blur
Made by the masters behind Project Gotham Racing and Metropolis Street Racer, Blur is a racing project by Bizarre Creations that aims to take arcade-style action and realistic driving physics to a whole new…
Blur is an arcade developed by Bizarre Creations, released 25 May 2010 on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Blur is
Blur is an arcade game developed by Bizarre Creations and released in 2010. It was published by Activision. It is available on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Horizon Engine.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Blur is a 2010 arcade-style racing vehicular combat video game for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. It was developed by Bizarre Creations and published by Activision. Blur features a racing style that incorporates real world cars and locales with arcade style handling and vehicular combat. The game is a spiritual successor to the Project Gotham Racing series. Blur was the penultimate game developed by Bizarre Creations before they were shut down by Activision on February 18, 2011.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It supports multiplayer for up to 20 players online, and includes co-op. Local play supports 4 players. Available modes: Multiplayer, Single player and Split screen.
How it was received
Blur holds a critic score of 79 out of 100. That places it above 66% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2010 averaged 70, so it scored 9 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 78, across 156 votes.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Pentium D Dual Core 3.4ghz or better, 1 GB Ram for Windows XP, 2 GB for Windows Vista or Windows 7 and 256 MB NVIDIA GeForce 6600GT or better or ATI Radeon 1600XT or better with Shader 3.0 capabilities.. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 14GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Blur launched on 25 May 2010, within three weeks of Red Dead Redemption, Super Mario Galaxy 2, Alan Wake and Xenoblade Chronicles. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Red Dead Redemption, Super Mario Galaxy 2, Alan Wake, Xenoblade Chronicles.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Blur yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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