{"id":867,"date":"2010-06-09T11:28:23","date_gmt":"2010-06-09T18:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/?p=867"},"modified":"2010-06-09T11:28:23","modified_gmt":"2010-06-09T18:28:23","slug":"blur-is-great","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/blur-is-great\/","title":{"rendered":"Blur is Great"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.associatedcontent.com\/article\/2776126\/blur_multiplayer_beta_impressions.html?singlepage=true&amp;cat=19\">talked<\/a> about Blur before when the beta was running and now that the full game is out I&#8217;m loving it.\u00a0 The single player is a lot of fun with a mix of objective based races and normal races.\u00a0 The destruction races in the single player might be my favorite because all you do is follow other cars and try to shoot them off the road.\u00a0 Each section of the single player is broken down by race types and finishing with a one-on-one race. I really like this format because each section gets me to focus on a few aspects of the game. This leads to me playing better in the multiplayer races.<\/p>\n<p>The multiplayer is still a riot. The World Tour section is quickly becoming my favorite as it is a mix of all the other game modes randomly sorted.\u00a0 This keeps things interesting and fresh.\u00a0 The number of cars and tracks is quite substantial. There are literally dozens of cars and the tracks feature a much wider range of layouts than the beta showcased.\u00a0 You can have a lot of fun just racing and using power-ups whenever but if you put a little strategy into it you can really dominate a race.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve put together a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.associatedcontent.com\/article\/5448858\/blur_strategies_and_tips.html?cat=19\">few tips to get beginners started<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, I love Blur.\u00a0 It is not a perfect racing game but it is a great car combat game that features races.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I talked about Blur before when the beta was running and now that the full game is out I&#8217;m loving it.\u00a0 The single player is a lot of fun with a mix of objective based races and normal races.\u00a0 The destruction races in the single player might be my favorite because all you do is [&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":[134,5],"class_list":["post-867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-xbox-360","tag-blur","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\/867","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=867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}