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- The Island – A brand new radically different location for the festival.
- The Monster Truck – An all new vehicle class added to the core vehicle selection for a total of 8 different vehicle classes.
- Immersive Online Experience ¿ A radical re-look at the whole MotorStorm online experience, focusing on ease of use and breadth of gameplay all while tearing it up in races up to 16 players.
- Improved Actions – A new level of control; punch, duck and ram using a new control layout.
- New Rating Systems – It¿s not all about winning; it¿s also about how you perform.
Amazon.com Product Description
The first Motorstorm wowed fans with its heady formula of brutal, unpredictable off-road racing, festival vibes and stunning Monument Valley desert scenery. Now, Motorstorm Pacific Rift takes you to a solitary tropical paradise in the Pacific Ocean, ready for a whole new take on no-holds-barred racing action through thick swamps, dense jungle, towering peaks and steaming volcanoes. Unleash the storm again
#1 by Bogie 19th on June 25, 2010 - 2:41 pm
I had high hopes for an improvement over the first title. Unfortunately, other than new environments, the game is just no fun, and is extremely stale. The car/buggy/bike/truck physics are all too floating. Other than the damage, there is no realism in the feedback from the game. There is too much slow down in framerate during chaotic choke points in the racing. With pop in problems in draw distance, and screen tearing when rubbing up along side objects, the game feels half baked.
The online portion is also has too much lag to be able to enjoy. I don’t recommend this game at all.
Rating: 1 / 5
#2 by M. Santos on June 25, 2010 - 5:16 pm
Unless you’re having some friends over to play on split screen don’t buy this game, maybe rent it for the weekend.
Seriously this game is so frustrating when you get close to the end, that you want trough you ps3 trough the window.
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You have limitation on boosting but not the other cars, I’ve seen them boosting the hole time when they are in front of me.
Seriously SONY could do better!!!
Rating: 1 / 5
#3 by Goziem Ufodike on June 25, 2010 - 5:58 pm
I regret buying the game. Not my type of game at all. I love driving games, but with a lot of realism. I hate crowded scenery, and this one sure does sport it. Most times, I can’t make out the road from other obstacles. Driving doesn’t require a lot of input from me. Just hold the power button and keep driving. NO! I don’t like it! I’ll stick to Test Drive, GTR, Cabella 4×4 (which I’m not excited about, but it is surely better than this one), Formula 1, and all the rest which I have.
Rating: 1 / 5
#4 by Twins Daddy on June 25, 2010 - 8:07 pm
Never have I read so many 5-STAR reviews for a game that was such a disappointment! Perhaps if you play it online you’ll get more out of it, but mine’s already back in the case and ready to sell after the first day. I honestly don’t understand all of the hype and “this is just the best game” stuff written about this lame game. If you want a REAL racing/driving game, get Burnout Paradise instead…These two games are so far apart in quality and gameplay, it’s not even a contest. What’s not to like specifically about Pacific Rift?
1) First, the vehicle controls suck. It’s like they respond in slow motion or after a 1-2 second delay. It is a RACE, so you have to go fast. When you do go fast, if your tire simply touches a rock or a tire/obstacle randomly placed around the track, then you either flip over and your vehicle disintegrates or you don’t flip over and your vehicle just explodes…Wow…Great fun, huh?
2) Second, since you’re going fast over jumps and hills, your vehicle spends most of its time in the air. When you’re in the air, you can’t steer and you can only watch helplessly as your vehicle lands on a rock and explodes or in a lava field and explodes or sails over a cliff and explodes…Well if you just look at the vehicle the wrong way, it explodes.
3) After your vehicle explodes once or twice in a 2 or 3 lap race, your chances of winning are slim to none. If you don’t WIN, as in come in first place out of 16 racers, you don’t progress to new race tracks. This was not a fun feedback loop for me.
Now I appreciate some degree of difficulty in a video game…But this “race” was incredibly HARD right out of the box in race #1 on EASY level. Why is it necessary to make a game so difficult for a player’s introduction to a new game? And as far as “awesome graphics”, again Burnout Paradise puts this one to shame. This game’s graphics are painfully slow and look like the PS3 is doing all it can to just grind them out, like something you’d find on a console 2 generations ago. Burnout’s graphics are so smooth even when traveling at incredible speeds…Just as different as day and night.
You’ll either love or hate Pacific Rift…So I suggest renting to find out which camp you fall into. If you do buy it, make sure you play it before Burnout Paradise because if you play PR after BP, you’ll quickly see and feel how inferior it really is…And that just sucks any potential fun factor right out of it.
Rating: 1 / 5
#5 by Kimnkowtown on June 25, 2010 - 8:20 pm
They took a great concept, Sixaxis steering and replaced it with imprecise left thumb control using the joystick. I played the demo and never suspected that they would keep such a lame feature as the only means of navigation. Tossed this one on the junk pile the first week I had it. Now I’m suspicious as to why Killzone 2 Demo is in such limited U.S. release. I’m stopping by to cancel that pre-order as soon as I post this.
Rating: 2 / 5