Play-Mag:
"I was slightly bemused when I first heard the title of the new MotorStorm game. Was it an expansion of the original, perhaps? Was there a specific reason why the '2' was left out of the title? There didn't seem to be, given that the game was set against an entirely different backdrop, had twice as many tracks as the first and contained monster trucks, the latter being a commercially sensible inclusion in my eyes. Still, I read the press release and moved on with my life. It was a sequel, all right, and Evolution Studios had the time to create a top quality racing title. It eventually turned out to be miles better than the first, so I gave it 93%.
This rule doesn't seem to apply in every case, though. Call of Duty: World At War just became the third fastest-selling title of all time in the UK, but that was bolstered by a heavy advertising campaign, which extended to a showing of Quantum Of Solace I attended last week. Without a strong marketing campaign to generate interest, MotorStorm: Pacific Rift appears to have suffered.
Hopefully, through future PS3 bundles and sustainable, long-term interest, it'll become as big a commercial hit as the first."
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.
What???
With the overabundance of games this holiday, I think that Motorstorm Pacific Rift is just simply getting overlooked. I think that Sony should have delayed it until the end of November or early December.
I mean, LBP came out around the time of Motorstorm Pacific Rift in the U.S., and Resistance 2 came out the week after Motorstorm. Both LBP and R2 were more anticipated, and that's what most PS3 owners were picking up at the time and it's as simple as that.
I do plan on getting Motorstorm Pacific Rift because I greatly enjoyed the first and still play it from time to time, it's just that I've begun some holiday shopping and I've already purchased several other games already (Dead Space, Fallout 3, Resistance 2), so I put the purchase of Motorstorm Pacific Rift on hold until next month or early next year because as much as I love video games, I'm not spending all of my money this holiday on JUST games.
is buy it. Its one of the best games this year.. And i am not a big racing fan but this game it pure hell on wheels..
Anyone who didn't buy it or doesn't buy it is a fool... It is easily my top pick for game of the year on Ps3. Easily! They made amends for everything wrong with the 1st one. Everything... I also like how much more forgiving it is. No more are you blasted up against a rock wall for hitting a pebble and if you are no longer do they set you back as you watch the entire line up pass you by as you're getting reset on the track.
MSPR is the best game I've played all year. And I hate everything... ;-)