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Gaming (i thought) seemed to be in a bit of a lull at the moment, with lot’s of MASSIVE! titles being released at the end of the year it kinda feel’s like the industry is holding back ready to unload their full might on the run up to Christmas. The run up starts in mid September with the release of Test Drive Unlimited 2 and will be one of the best games of 2010 and should make the next 2 months wait for Gran Turismo 5 fly by. Then of course there’s the release of the motion

controller, Sport’s champions, SOCOM 4 and Little Big Planet 2 to name a few.

So with all that in the not too distant future we’re faced with the question.

Q: What do we play now?

A: Blur

When this game originally released it was over shadowed with the release of Split Second. Both blur and split second were released around the same time but split second was the first one of the 2 to have a demo available from the PS store and it sucked monkey balls. Split second might be cool for young kids i feel it’s just a terrible game and with blur coming out at the same time i didn’t give it my attention. Then last week the blur multiplayer demo popped up on the PS store n i thought what the hell ill check it out. I played 1 game and realized immediately i’ve missed a gem. The multiplayer demo is still on the store if you want to check it out for yourself and i recommend you do.

What is blur?

Think 3rd person shooter on wheels.

Think Mario kart on steroids.

Think Wipeout on wheels.

The single player is great and i love the integrated Facebook and twitter which allows you to share photo’s, leaderboard positions and anything in the game with your twitter of facebook accounts. It also gives your the option to challenge any of your friends to beat your best runs (or worst if you wish it’s up to you) with almost every page having a “Press L1 to share” button.

But where this game really comes into its own is in the multi player. sometimes you could be racing 3 or 4 other people and its ok or you could be put into a race with 9 other people but the real mayhem begins when you join a 20 player race. It’s great fun. At moments you have cars all around you and even jumping over you and with everyone fighting for that number 1 spot the battle can be pretty intense. Just don’t take it too seriously though, So many times ive lead the race for the first 2 laps way out in front of the pack only to realize ive just been mauled by 4 or 5 people behind me. After a bit of a crash and then another few hits from the rest of the pack i now find myself in dead last as i cross the finish line. If you let this game annoy you, you’ll most probably hate it but get online with a few friends with mic’s and you’ll have a great experience.

To be honest with you i bought this game to get me through to the release of Test Drive unlimited 2 in mid september and i felt fed up with the massive quantities of shooters out there so its a refreshing change and in all this i think i have found a real gem. I definitely see a blur 2 in the future and look forward to getting platinum on this game its simply excellent.

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