"is it better than pure?"
Gameplayer has gone live with their review of MotorStorm: Pacific Rift which released in Australia today. They put it up against the similarly themed Pure.
"But can its highly anticipated sequel achieve the same feats? Well, not really. With Pacific Rift, the initial shock of playing a dyed in the wool next-gen title has been replaced with a comfortable familiarity, that feels good, plays good, and, to a certain extent, looks good, but doesn't really have the power to expand the horizons of gaming in the same manner its predecessor did."
Digital Foundry : Evolution Studios' Motorstorm is one of the first, finest and most fondly remembered of launch titles for PlayStation 3. It's a release designed to answer the question posed by each new console generation: what makes a game 'next-gen'? With its robust physics engine and massive tracks, Motorstorm serves up a bold affirmative answer to this question, delivering an experience that could never have existed on prior console hardware. At the same time, the path to release was fraught with challenges that almost serve as a microcosm of the PlayStation 3 release situation itself. It was a success, however, with a trilogy of PS3 releases, plus PSP, Vita and even PS2 off-shoots.
After Driveclub and Onrush, the dev team will now contribute to and assist with the development of the upcoming NFS.
Never really got into it myself I remember getting it with ps3 and being a bit underwhelmed I preferred the RC version they did for vita 🙌🏻🤣
DSOGaming writes: "RPCS3 is the best emulator for Sony’s previous-gen console, the Playstation 3, and we’ve decided to share some videos, showing Dante’s Inferno, God of War 3, Sly 3, P5 Persona, Motorstorm Pacific Rift, Hajime no Ippo: The Fighting, Super Hero Generations and more running on its latest version."
DSOGaming writes: "YouTube’s ‘reznoire’ and ‘Emulators for PC’ have shared some new videos from the latest version of the Playstation 3 emulator, RPCS3, showing Heavy Rain, MotorStorm: Pacific Rift and Spiderman 3 running in it."
Poor Heavy Rain lol that game was and is a pile. Emulation sounds cool though - Res. Evil 3 and Directors Cut all the way.
So games run at 10 fps and graphical glitches not seen since pcsx2 in 2003,.. I will get there someday.
"But the major flaw with MotorStorm Pacific Rift, and the main reason the score isn’t higher than alternative off-road racer Pure (read our review), is to do with the overall visual quality of the game. This will surprise many, since the original set an initial benchmark for the PS3, but in many ways Pacific Rift is a real visual disappointment. Texture for texture, vehicle model for vehicle model, plenty of other racers (such as aforementioned Pure and Race Driver: GRID) blow Evolution’s baby out of the water, and frame-rate judders are frequent. For a game that made its name from high end visual fidelity, MotorStorm Pacific Rift fails to meet the high expectations set by fans."
IMO Pure is more fun to play. That's why I would rate it higher. Graphics don't mean anything if the game is boring, but it's a plus if it has both.
Motorstorm looks overall better thean pure. Better lightning, no bloom and more real. Pure looks like bugs bunny
I like the pure racing of MS: PR. The tricks and single vehicle class of Pure isn't my cup of tea.
Graphically they are quite different too. Pure looks very good, but a bit cartoony with all the bloom effect and so on.
MSPR is by far and away the better looking racer... They're saying this cause Pure has a fighters chance on the xbox 360 and it doesn't on the Ps3. MSPR is the best game I've played this year online... Warhawk excluded of course. Resistance 2 might be the better overall game, but Motorstorm PR is tons more fun to play online.
It looks incredible. It plays incredible and it controls like a dream... It takes everything MS did and ups it x's 10. I don't like MS1 by the way.
Pure looks better imo, i've seen both games side by side in a gaming show in Paris and Pure simply looked better, though I guess noone could pretend any of these 2 games have a significant advantage over the other one.. in the end MSPR is a great game but probably not an exclusive that makes a lot of player envious (and it's not exactly on the path to outsell MS1), actually Wipeout is a much better exclusive imo.