{"id":776,"date":"2010-03-11T11:06:59","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T18:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/?p=776"},"modified":"2011-01-12T17:09:41","modified_gmt":"2011-01-13T00:09:41","slug":"blur-impressions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/blur-impressions\/","title":{"rendered":"Blur Impressions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5167\/5350689668_63fd5ec29d.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Blur Box Art\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5167\/5350689668_63fd5ec29d.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I generally don&#8217;t play a lot of racing games.\u00a0 The only two I recall playing in the last few years are <a href=\"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/pure-xbox-360-review\/\">Pure<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/mario-kart-wii-review\/\">Mario Kart<\/a>.\u00a0 Both of which are very arcadey and not at all simulation racers. Before that I did play some Project Gotham Racing on the original Xbox. Blur sort of merges all these racing games that I&#8217;ve played and enjoyed.\u00a0 It is a street racer, but with power ups.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve only played about 5 hours so far of the Blur Multiplayer Beta\u00a0 on the Xbox 360, but it is already becoming my favorite racing game ever.\u00a0 Since the beta is not open to everyone (at least not yet) I put together my impressions so far here:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.associatedcontent.com\/article\/2776126\/blur_multiplayer_beta_impressions.html?singlepage=true&amp;cat=19\"><strong>Blur Multiplayer Beta Impressions<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I generally don&#8217;t play a lot of racing games.\u00a0 The only two I recall playing in the last few years are Pure and Mario Kart.\u00a0 Both of which are very arcadey and not at all simulation racers. Before that I did play some Project Gotham Racing on the original Xbox. Blur sort of merges all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[105,134,7,5],"class_list":["post-776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-xbox-360","tag-beta","tag-blur","tag-review","tag-video-game"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}