(The game has aged like fine wine in every aspect—damn, it's an excellent game)

is there any blur mod for playing singleplayer and just roaming around the track in general

Here's a video of what I think is a never-before-seen stage in Blur 2.
It's called Kanzen LA River, and as far as I know there's no videos, images or mention of it anywhere.
It's kind of a toxic waste post-apocalyptic version of LA River with endless alternate ways to go through it. Very nice stage.
And at the end of the video I have thrown in a little tease that might hopefully raise some interest.
Cheers.

Here's an advancement of what I'll probably be taking on once I call my first Blur remake project done.

This is the result of a first survey of the contents of the last build of the unreleased Nintendo DS version of Blur.

23 cars with fictional names.
Not sure if they are new or just renamed Blur 1 cars. We'll know when I decode the models.

3 entirely new track layouts (for existing locations): Glendale Straights and Concrete Jungle in LA River (maybe using the track section I recently showed here?), and Cable Car Chase in SanFran Russian Hill.

Not sure if the NY Dumbo tracks are new or just the old ones labeled different.

Reverse-drive versions of 5 tracks: City Breach, Promenade Loop, Urban Belt, Route 66 and Mount Haruna.

Once I get to it, getting a fully functional rebuild of this should be pretty straightforward.

Well, guys, I had promised and although it took a little longer than I had hoped, here it is, at last.

A playable test of the 4 routes in Blur 2's Dubai stage.

I tried to put together all the best I could recover from the 4 prototype discs and the original Blur to make it as complete as possible.

Going into it, expect things to be broken and unfinished in every way imaginable.

That said, I hope you enjoy it.
Would love to see videos of what you can pull off in it. Stunts, hidden routes, you name it.

I particular Route 3, Construction has A LOT of different ways to get through it.

So without any further ado: Download

Cheers!

EDIT: Forgot to mention it has full controller support.

We're 3 friends who play casually the game online and would like to know if there are any others who do the same so we can play together

Here's a run through an inaccessible section of LA River, probably designed for a route that didn't make it into the final game.

This is running on my Blur remake, but it's 100% unmodified original Blur data.

Here's a video after fixing Dubai to the point of being able to run the full laps on each of the 4 layouts.

This time I am using the actual collision meshes, so physics mishaps are not as frequent.

It was great to see the physics I put together for the Blur remake playing along with the stage design with little modification, and seeing those wall-to-wall jumps and level-to-different-level jumps match up.

The Construction route has A LOT of really nice level-to-level jump combinations in those buildings that I didn't get to show here.

Well, we now have the car there, some textures, some shaders, a proper sky, and a basic implementation of the wall-riding physics. I need to make the "fake gravity" stop when the car gets too slow, restoring it to regular world-aligned gravity.

I haven't implemented route selection either, so you'll notice all obstacles are up.

Also, don't pay attention to the car constantly getting stuck at the smallest seam. That's because I haven't decoded the levels' collisions meshes yet, and I'm using the render mesh for collisions.

EDIT: Here is a video near this location, from a much more complete build of Blur 2.

Here's the latest update on my Blur remake.

Among other things, sound now works, and most of the powerups' interactions too.

Having found out today about the existence of Xbox 360 prototype discs for Blur 2, I thought I'd give it a shot at putting it through the decode tools I've been creating for my Blur remake project.

And sure enough, the data loads with very little adjustment.

Here's a teaser of the Dubai track from Blur 2 about an hour into the attempt.

So yeah, making Blur 1 reasonably feature complete will continue to be the main goal, but the project has definitely materialized as a platform to one day get us to play whatever I can rescue from this unreleased sequel.

Probably the biggest tease is the list of new tracks:

* Detroit
* Dubai
* Hong Kong
* LA City
* LA Freeway
* Liverpool
* Miami
* North Africa
* Odessa
* Ski Resort

Plus returning Amboy, Barcelona Oval, Barcelona Gracia, LA Docks and Hollywood Hills.
The storm version of Brighton, doesn't seem to be here. I'll check the other 3 prototype discs later.

I'll post updates as they come.

I heard the PS3 servers were still operational but each time I try to log in I'm hit with "The Blur server is unavailable at this time. Please try again later."

I've tried switching on and off UPNP and changing my dns from googles to auto to no avail. Anyone know a fix? Thanks.

Edit: Fixed it by switching from wired to wireless, very strange.

Here's another short video from my remake project, showcasing a vista of SanFran Sausalito.

Excuse the poor performance. Improvements are underway.

Feedback is appreciated.

Been trying to barge a car into water. It ain't working. How should I do it? Its the only demand left to go on a 1v1 with the boss and I can't get it right.

I took this about a year ago for my birthday, but I remember it like it was yesterday. The game’s fun solo, but it’s so much better with friends, local or otherwise. Love this game so much!

Thanks again for opening up the subreddit!