Blur multiplayer will allow PS3 and 360 players to compete

[maash]

http://www.mcvuk.com/news/37821/Blur-touts-360PS3-cross-platform-multiplayer

Activision?s upcoming racer Blur will be the first game to allow PS3 and Xbox 360 players to compete against each other AND the first to offer online multiplayer for Silver members of Xbox Live Arcade.

That?s the headline claim being made by Bizarre Creations, though the mechanics of the functionality are a little more complicated.

In truth, integrated Twitter functionality will allow users to challenge one another ? no matter what platform they?re playing on ? over the social network.

In addition, Xbox 360 owners will be able to swap challenges via Xbox Live's message system regardless of their membership level.

?In the single player mode when you finish a race, it records all of your stats and information,? lead designer Gareth Wilson told MTV Multiplayer.

?You can choose what you want to put into your challenge and send it to your buddy. He receives that as an Xbox Dashboard message, so he could be playing another game, he could be watching TV on Netflix.

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Awesome (Y)

Dunno how this was pushed through MS (online mp without gold), but I guess it has to be or the ruckus of PS3 owners are doing this for free would kick up.

[slyph]

sounds pretty awesome that they can finally do this. I wonder what the hold up was previously? no interest? legal redtape?

[Motoko.]

Wow this is a new step..

What gives?

[spenser.d]

It doesn't sound like anything any other game can't do. You record your single player race stats and send them to another person as a "challenge". It doesn't sound like you're actually physically racing someone else across systems or membership levels. That's how I'm reading it anyways.

-Spenser

[DrunknMunky Veteran]

It doesn't sound like anything any other game can't do. You record your single player race stats and send them to another person as a "challenge". It doesn't sound like you're actually physically racing someone else across systems or membership levels. That's how I'm reading it anyways.

-Spenser

Yup, which would explain why Silver members can play "online".

The headline has been taken out of context

[mattmatik]

It doesn't sound like anything any other game can't do. You record your single player race stats and send them to another person as a "challenge". It doesn't sound like you're actually physically racing someone else across systems or membership levels. That's how I'm reading it anyways.

-Spenser

Yeah, read it the same way. Still, pretty cool and overdue for this.

[rajputwarrior]

It doesn't sound like anything any other game can't do. You record your single player race stats and send them to another person as a "challenge". It doesn't sound like you're actually physically racing someone else across systems or membership levels. That's how I'm reading it anyways.

-Spenser

yeah i was thinking the same thing. where does it say silver subscribers can't actually play against gold members... (see what i did there?). PS3 vs Xbox is kinda cool though.

[BajiRav]

It doesn't sound like anything any other game can't do. You record your single player race stats and send them to another person as a "challenge". It doesn't sound like you're actually physically racing someone else across systems or membership levels. That's how I'm reading it anyways.

-Spenser

The wording isn't clear on it but it seems that is about two Xbox players playing asynchronous and not PS3 vs 360.

[+Audioboxer Subscriber²]

Yeah I totally jumped the gun on this, I thought it meant we were playing together

[Motoko.]

Yeah I totally jumped the gun on this, I thought it meant we were playing together

:laugh:

[soniqstylz]

Yeah I totally jumped the gun on this, I thought it meant we were playing together

As opposed to playing with ourselves?

[Sethos]

As opposed to playing with ourselves?

That's my favorite activity yo!

[Smigit]

Not that I care about racing games or the way theyve opted to implement cross platform play here, but it would be kind of cool to release a cross platform competitive online game where teams were chosen not so much at random but purely based on what platform you were playing from at the time be it PC, PS3 or XBox. Obviously you'd want some level of balancing on top of that but it'd be interesting to see how people would approach such a game given some people can get so passionate about their system of choice. Sure that would lead to some pretty heated cross team banter.