I looked at my statistics for my career playing time for the PlayStation 3 game, Blur.
I have raced in 513 on-line races and completed 21% of the off-line mode.
Those are pretty impressive numbers, I thought.
I don't play this game every day - but I guess when I do play it, I get a lot of bang for the buck.

To me, in fact, that is what Blur is.
A lot of BANG!

Each time I play an on-line race here is what goes down:

I turn on the PS3, put the Blur disc in
Wait for the game to load up 
Press START
Sign in (auto for me) 
Choose on-line mode
Choose which on-line mode to race in (usually the race mode with 20 individual racers in it)
Wait for thirty seconds but no more than two minutes to get dropped into a race that's about to start
Vote on which track to race
Choose my car
Set up my car's load-out
Race
Have a heckuva good time
The race ends (in anywhere from 3 to 4.5 minutes)
Vote on which track to race
Choose my car
Set up my car's load-out
Race
Have a heckuva good time

Rinse and repeat.

BANG!

Nine or ten races can be raced in an hour.
The experience is extremely solid, action-packed, fast, tactical and on-edge.
If this were a arcade game in an arcade, you would be pumping quarters in again and again just to keep the experience going.
But - this isn't an arcade game and no quarters are needed, so just wait until the next race starts and go roaring away again!
Beauty.

I need to mention -
The on-line racing is the focus of the game, but the off-line mode of the game has some good things to offer:
1) Races teach you the best-line and shortcuts on all the tracks
2) Certain modes help you hone your combat skills
3) Each Boss you beat in this mode earns you a special car you can use in the on-line mode.

The cars are varied.
The cars are cool.

The tracks are varied.
The tracks are cool.

The weapons, defenses, power-ups are varied.
And all cool.

The correct car(s) for the correct track(s) are important.
The correct load-outs for your style, strategy and track is important.

Racing line is key.
Not bashing into corner after corner is key.
Keeping a nice racing line and cornering correctly is loads of fun and a scream when bombarded by homing on-fire asteroids, single and multi-shot bolt bullets, lightning strikes and shoving force fields.
The fact that you are driving at around and over 200MPH is a factor, too.

You've played racing games before.
You've played combat-racing games before.
You've played all of these on-line before.
Play this one - and you will enjoy yourself and then look for a quarter to put into the machine to give it just one more go.

Blur is a really good on-line racing game.
Give it a whirl.

Blur homepage.
Blur video advert that hooked me.