Still on the fence about Blur, the arcade racer that has clearly taken a piece of my soul? Well, good news — PlayStation 3 gamers now have a free demo to try the game for themselves. As I noted last week, PS3 gamers in particular have been spoiled for choice, with three action-racing games coming out right on top of each other. Nobody can buy and find the time to play every game that comes out — so if you went for one of the other titles, here’s a risk-free way to check out what you’re missing.
Yes, the demo includes the Ford Mustang GT 500...if you can handle it.
What you get in the demo is…a lot, actually. 12 cars, 8 power-ups, 7 mods, and two gameplay modes (the finish-line-oriented Powered-up Racing on four tracks, and the destruction-oriented Motor Mash on two of its own arenas). Plus the demo version supports Twitter and Facebook functionality, so you can brag to the world about your latest accomplishments and customize the message before you send it out. That means you can direct your trash talk to the parties that most need to hear it. As this fan video of me beating the pants off people in Blur on PS3 illustrates, that might be me.
The Blur PS3 demo will be available in the PlayStation Store later today as part of Sony’s weekly content update, and it should be available tomorrow in Europe. I’m planning to do a PS3 gameplay session for Blur in August, so this gives you time to test it out, practice up, grab the full version, and face me online next month!
UPDATE: I got to chatter about this over on Sony’s official PlayStation blog, too! And the Twitter and Facebook functionality are now live in the demo — I tested it and it works.
