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MotorStorm: Pacific Rift (Sony PlayStation 3, 2008)
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The original MotorStorm hit the PlayStation 3 with no holds barred. The game was an off-road racer at its core, but its heart was filled with chaos, destruction and more chaos. Oh, and also lots of destruction. While the game was great fun, it did have its share of problems, mostly with regards to plenty of waiting for content to load as well as only having a handful of tracks to race. Evolution Studios has now returned to the dirt and mud with MotorStorm: Pacific Rift, but this time the studio also brings fire, water and foliage in tow. The game improves on most all of the major issues that I had with the first title, and proves that the MotorStorm franchise is no one trick pony. The first game relied heavily on its dirt and mud deformation technology. As vehicles cut through the mud, it would leave tracks in the soil that other competitors would have to deal with, and this hook worked pretty well. Whereas the first title was situated out in the desert, Pacific Rift takes place on an island, and focuses on other elements rather than just the dirty stuff. Click here to watch the video review. Firstly, there's plenty of water present this time around, which has two effects. Driving through it will slow you down a great deal, which is obviously a bad thing, but it will also quickly cool down your engine. If you lay off the boost button while in the water, your engine can entirely cool off in a couple seconds. Alternatively, you can lay on the boost and essentially apply the nitrous for "free" and power through the water. Obviously the bigger vehicles have a much easier time here, and in some cases the water is deep enough that only the biggest rides can even go through it safely. This is one part of the great mix of vehicle abilities, which I'll come back to in a bit. The next of the major elements is fire, which is usually in the form of lava. This is nothing but bad for your lap times as touching it equals melted metal (read: death), even getting near it overheats your engine, and using boost will max out your meter very quickly. What's cool here is that a lot of the fire-based levels also feature bits of water, allowing you to cool off your engine and gain an advantage over the competition, should you take a certain route. Some of these routes come with a tradeoff -- you'll be taking the longer path, but you'll be able to boost for longer. In this case, the vehicles that benefit more from boost are better served going this route, while rides that don't may want to stick to the faster path and take it easy on the boost button. You'll catch plenty of air this time around thanks to the varied track design. Lastly, foliage also plays a big part in some of the races. You'll see bits of vegetation all over the game, especially in a course based around a farming outpost. Bikes will get destroyed by the stalks, racing trucks can get by, but slowly, while the biggest rides will plow right over it. When the bigger vehicles run through the stuff, it'll stay smashed and the smaller rides will now be able to use the same path. It almost makes for a dynamic course layout, where the bigger vehicles can actually help out the smaller ones by paving a new, shorter path. For the most part, the track design is excellent. There's at least double the number of courses this time around than we saw in the first title, which is great news for those of us who grew tired of playing the same courses over and over again. While those courses wereRead full review
Over the years the Motor Sports genre of games has suffered. Motorstorm Pacific Rift takes everything from the first and makes it better. -Pros- The game has online multiplayer that for the most part runs pretty smooth and even features on-screen multiplayer. Gameplay is fun and memorable The 'feel' to the game is quite nice with the rough and tough environment with good map design and it'll get you settled in with relative ease. Character and Vehicle customization is a nice touch and didn't even need to be included, but it was. Gran Turismo fans who are looking at customization to the max with their vehicle might be a little disappointed but look at it this way you don't need to customize something that will crash and wreck multiple multiple times. Music selection is pretty good but you can if you want just put in the music from your PS3. -Cons- The game is very unique and does require some getting used too, because of this you will crash A LOT and can cause some minor frustration. There is no difficulty setting and to be honest the game is quite a challenge and I can imagine to some people this game being very hard. -- Overall Motorstorm Pacific Rift is a fun and very challenging game that should keep your attention for months on end. It is probably by far the best of it's kind and you should defiantly check it out. The Final Score Presentation: 3.5/5 Gameplay: 4.5/5 Design: 4/5 Final Score: 4/5 *PBXDRead full review
This game is unique in many ways, first off it puts you in this epic world of off-road tracks and instead of having circuits you have, Earth, Fire, Wind, Water areas with a huge numbers of un-lockable tracks and you literally race through those elements in nature. The tracks can get get confusing and the only problem I really have with the game is that it kind of sets you up to crash so you can see your car crashing in slow motion, but that said, I'm not a pro at the game yet. There's many vehicles to choose from and this adds to the diversity of this game. There are places to race and places to explore. And you will have to remember these "tracks," so you won't crash 20 times, which gives the game more re-playability. The tracks are prob the ace factor in this game becuase they really keep you interested. I didn't like Burnout: Paradise city because, I was tired of racing in the dam city! or on a boring repetitive track (Gran Turismo) Motorstorm, Pacific Rift really is first a unique game and a extremly fun game that's well worth the money. Just try not to crash at first!!! 4 out of 5Read full review
If you are a fan of the original Motor Storm...then you'll appreciate Motor Strom: Pacific Rift! It is tons more fun than the first installment! Racing fun for the whole family and friends! The graphics are great! Tons of stuff to unlock from drivers (male/female) and vehicles (motorcycles & quads to sports cars & monster trucks)...to new racing challenges (timed & eliminator)!!! Hours of racing fun for those so inclined! Four place styles of challenge zones...Earth, Air, Fire and Water...loaded with unlockable track challenge races...really great graphics and smooth gameplay! If your a fan of "rubbin-n-racin" (great vehicles, tracks & tricks) then this game is for you! As always you should consider renting, borrowing or trying demo downloads to see if this type of game suits your taste. The game gets quite a bit of playing time around our house...Well worth the money spent! I hope that you found this information helpful...Please help keep the eBay community working by reviewing this rating honestly...Thanks, and have a great day!Read full review
The game is really good. Of all driving games, its a little out of the ordinary. these days its all need for speed and burnout street racing. I like that you can choose different types of vehicles, such as dirtbikes or buggies that may be in a race with monster trucks. The graphics are pretty good. I also like the different trails on a racetrack for different types of vehicles like trails with lots of jumps and turns (lightweight vehicles) and trails through mud or water (heavyweight vehicles). Overall great game. never really gets boring, though it might get frustrating if u keep getting crushed by larger vehicles.
Item received. Slight scuff on the case that I couldn’t tell from the picture. Other than that, the game works and with media cleaner, the disc looks good.
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I used to have an XBox, and loved Rallisport Challenge 2 because I could race split screen with my wife. MotorSport: PR was hailed as a terrific racer with split screen, but I'm a bit disappointed. While the locales are pretty, it is so difficult to discern where to drive on each "track" that racing against someone else offline is not so much fun. You lose sight of them immediately and you're really never "neck and neck." The crashes are fun to look at but detract from the race, if that's what you want. It's probably a game better suited to racing against 16 other cpu controlled vehicles or online, but for multiplayer offline, it falls short.
When the first motorstorm came out it carved its own racing type. It was one of the pioneers in physics based racing. With every track having lots of branching path, every branch suitable for a different class of vehicles. Here they have taken it to the next level. Races are much bigger. Apart from mud you also have other obstacles for individual vehicles classes. Small vehicles will get stuck in plants and other terrestrial hazards. This time it is lot more than physics. Some people are complaining that vehicles slide more than the first one, it is intentional as it forces you to use hand brakes for a faster drift turn. Overall sense of speed has drastically gone up. This game is still Motorstorm at heart. They have added tonnes and tonnes of extras to the game to make it feel very fresh. Things like lava tracks, water jets for faster cooling, high air jumps all add extra strategy. It is not just driving fast. You have to try out all the alternative paths and choose right one based on boost and cooling requirements. So many behind the scene changes - Explosions will destroy the guys next to you. You can do kamikaze on cliff edges. - If you are small vehicle you can lap behind a big one to clear off the vegetation and pull off at the last second. - Water shower is available only in paths that have more terrestrial danger for balancing. Either it is a rocky path or volcanic eruption. More and more I play, I keep finding lot more interesting tweaks. AI is also vastly improved. If you truly race well you will win. There isn't much of rubber necking. I also think the physics respond much better compared to the first one. Jumps and slides feel lot more natural. Graphics seem to be better than the demo. I think they have tweaked the xdr lighting. Every thing looks very polished. I havent seen any crashes or hangs. There is twice as many race tracks as the original one. There is also an extra eliminator mode. Speed events are my favorite, it is like slalom race. Where the flags appear only after you cross the current one. So it requires lot more agility than just boosting the way through. It is like the old ATV games. After play thing for an hour or so, when I tried MS1 it was a night and day difference. The new game also loads much much faster than the old one. The vehicle selection screen is lot more slicker and avoids the double loading screen. I love the fact they have added split screen. There is nothing more fun than pushing your buddy off the cliff. Using L1/R1 as action buttons makes the game much more fun. Hope they keep us busy with more DLCs.Read full review
Excellent game, this sequel takes us to more aggressive and complicated circuits on an island where everyone will have to fight literally the first place. In this latest installment you can enjoy multiplayer mode for up to four players, is one of the reasons of interest to me . As for the graphics really do not far exceed, or almost nothing to the first motorstorm. the gameplay is as good as the first and in generally whether it is better that the first motorstorm. Graphics: 7 Sound: 9 Gameplay: 9.4 History: 8.9 Average: 8.56
The graphics are decent and the car selection gets bigger as the game moves on but I am always one for more realistic types of vehicles. There are some vehicles that can be selected that are pretty realistic but others just look a little to kid like. Multi player is great and online is good. There are plenty of career races so the game does not get old quick. Levels of difficulty are fair.
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