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Bizarre Creations has whipped the wrappers off Blur, its brand new racing IP for Activision.
Blur, like Project Gotham, features flash cars roaring around exotic locations such as New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, London (hold on) Tokyo and more, according to a preview in French magazine Joypad (spotted by IGN).
But there are also weapons: mines, shields and even some kind of electric attack. And that means Bizarre Creations has had to redevelop the collision detection to cope.
There's little else for now, although we're rummaging around to see what we can find.
Activision bought Bizarre Creations back in September 2007, a move that the developer said allowed renewed focus on games as all the boring company stuff would, in future, be taken care of by someone else.
Bizarre was to work on one racing and one character-based game for Activision. And with Microsoft owning the PGR series, SEGA retaining The Club and EA presiding over Boom Boom Rocket, that suggested the need to create new IP.
So far so good, it seems.
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metalangel
22/04/09 @ 09:09
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Ponytailed marketing execs strike again... "Bizarre! Buddy! Make PGR again, bro! But add guns! Kids love guns! Yeah! Kudos to ya! Get it? KUDOS?"
So, will this break the mould of car combat games and NOT suck? |
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thenastypasty
22/04/09 @ 09:33
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I think this could be quite promising. pgr4 is my no1 racing game of all time,so mix that with some gun i think could be fun.
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AtomicBanana
22/04/09 @ 09:35
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I've loved every racing game they've ever made. Don't let me down guys!
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I lost all interest at the first mention of weapons. Well, I lost what little interest was left after the mention of Activision anyway. I've been holding out for the feel that made MSR so wonderful, which the Gotham games never quite seemed to deliver. I don't think this is going to do anything I want from it.
Also, I didn't realise that Bizarre made The Club. Might pick it up if I see it for pennies. |
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From the inside cover of the latest EDGE expect to see a larger expose. Though if they had expected an exclusive then they'll now be disappointed! Though, on second thoughts isn't Joypad a sister publication of EDGE and shares articles?
So PGR meets The Club. Ah well, surely better than Full Auto? |
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PGR 4 is still my favourite racer of this generation - although GRID comes very close - so I'm immensely excited at the prospect of playing another racing game from the supremely talented Bizarre Creations. Shame its the same old cities but at least the concept sounds a little different for them. Full Auto springs to mind but hopefully it'll be much, much better than that heap of mediocrity.
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OldK1ngCole
22/04/09 @ 11:48
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I've bought everything Bizarre have produced up till this point and I genuinely believe they are the most talented developers of driving games in the world. Really didn't see this coming though.
Please, please, please let this be good. |
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Is this what has become of Bizarre? Their latest game announced in a French mag, in French. I thought they signed for Activision, not Ubisoft. Sad.
As for the name, lets hope it doesn't end up being another generic "one name racer" like GRiD, DiRT, SHiFT or NiTRO which seem to be the norm these days. i.e SHiT |
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@ Toothball: "Also, I didn't realise that Bizarre made The Club. Might pick it up if I see it for pennies"
Just finished playing this actually, after I picked it up for a ridiculously cheap £7.50 a while back (second hand deal, I think). Absolutely cracking title for those who like their twitch gaming - succeeds in Bizaar's mission to do the shoot-em-up, what PGR did for the racing genre :0) P.S. The name does the business for me as well. Off to Mr Albarn et al at Hyde Park this year - can't wait! ^_^ |
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"Some kind of electric attack"
Somewhere there's a University course for aspiring game artists that has an entire module in this. By training their students in creating this they guarantee them jobs later in life. Other modules deal with 'Fire attacks', 'Ice attacks', and how to draw big monsters that bellow at you before they attack. |
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ExplodingClown
23/04/09 @ 17:34
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So... Full Auto redux then.
Someone just hurry up and make a new fucking Carmageddon, already. |
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