Remember the majority of last year, when it looked like the PS3 was an utter write-off? MotorStorm lingered around our Charts page for about 11 months, which gradually weathered each caption for the game – "It's been kicking around for a while, now," for example, is one of the desperate comments PLAY used to describe the game. "We really didn't expect it to be selling in the tenth month of the PS3's life span," is another. Along with Resistance: Fall Of Man, MotorStorm was the only game worth playing on the PlayStation 3 for a depressing amount of time.
Now that a sequel's on the horizon, our appreciation for the franchise has returned. MotorStorm is hardly a game in desperate need of a follow-up, but that's not the way business works – MotorStorm has shifted 3 million copies, so a sequel was inevitably going to rear its ugly head. It's looking pretty swell, though. Judging by the trailer, MotorStorm 2 will feature more precise environmental damage than its muddy predecessor. Whereas in the first game, there wasn't a lot of variation beyond metal obstacles, mud tracks and cliff crashes, we're expecting a surprising array of additions in the sequel.
