I’ve seen screens of Blur for a few months now. Been seeing them, and kept scrolling through my RSS feeder. At first glance, Blur seems to be nothing more than a WipeOut or Mario Kart inspired racer, but using current gen vehicles. In fact, it looks like a clone of these games at second glance to. And third glance. Fourth. And so on. Not that I have anything against WipeOut or Mario Kart. The former is on my all time favorites list without a doubt. The fast pace and tactical use of power-ups combined with the always mood setting electro makes for a solid experience. With that, if someone came up to me and shouted in my face with glee, “Hey! Someone’s making a WipeOut inspired racer but with modern day cars!” and continued to run off into the distance screaming due to the weasels attached to his face. I’d think, “who was that man of action?” and then, “hmm, game doesn’t sound too bad.” Game doesn’t LOOK to bad either as noticed by the following video that I swiped from Joystiq. They didn’t say no swipey!

Could be good! But my issue, and what I believe will keep this game from being more than a discount buy, is it’s price point. It’s being initially sold at the normal “I’m an important release” price of $59.99. Seems like a lot to me when you consider that you can jump on the PS3 Network right now and buy WipeOut XL for $14.99, and pick up more of the game with the Fury expansion for another Hamilton.

This may be one to rent, but if I can get my hands on it when it comes out in November, I’ll let you know if it should be a last minute Xmas idea.