Tag Archives: Motorstorm: Pacific Rift

Over at Shacknews. Loads of motion blur and dirt flying up from the track. Looking like a newer version of Motorstorm, really. Which it is, so that’s fine.

Have look-see.

By Mike Bowden

In the wake of July’s NPD figures, we thought we’d look at just how well the ‘big three’ have fared over the last seven months by tallying all hardware data for 2008.

We all know Nintendo is having a fantastic year, but just how well is Wii doing?

Microsoft and Sony are fighting their own high-def battle, but how big is the margin between the two, and who has the lead?

After the drop.

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On Watch Impress. Looking good from where we’re standing. Pretty, even. Go see.

Game’s out at the end of the year.

Eurogamer TV’s posted up an exclusive visit to Motorstorm 2 developer Evolution Studios, complete with loads of interviews and in-game footage. Take a look.

See them over at Shacknews. It’s looking very fast, and very furious. Too fast and too furious, perhaps?

Check them out.

By Mike Bowden

What’s Motorstorm 2 like to play? We don’t know. Eurogamer does, though, as you can see from this hands-on. Snip:

The placement of water in Cascade Falls and Kanaloa Bay is extremely well thought-out, an object lesson in track design. MotorStorm’s remit – wide-open, branching tracks, with multiple racing lines and balanced for multiple vehicle types – is perhaps the hardest design challenge in racing games, and the first game was consequently a little basic and messy in places. You can already tell that Pacific Rift is a tighter ship – in vehicle classes as well as track design, this game is looking much better tuned and balanced than its predecessor.

Full thing through the link.

Jeux-Video’s posted up two new movies of Motorstorm Pacific Rift. They’re filmed off a screen, but they’re a good length and show plenty. Looks great, in our bleedy-eyed opinion. Worth watching to hear a French chap say, “Le boost”.

Just to add to this lot of screens and movies, here are the last shots we missed from the asset disc handed out at the SCEE PlayStation Day yesterday.

• MotorStorm Pacific Rift shots
• Siren: Blood Curse shots
• SingStar Vol. 2 shots
• SingStar PS3 shots
• PlayTV shots
• Elefunk shots
• PixelJunk Eden shots

D-Pad‘s got some new shots of Motorstorm 2 in its latest issue, as well as an interview with game director Nigel Kershaw.

Kershaw confirms there’ll be Home integration in the game, which is down for an end-of-year release.

“Home is a really exciting area for all PlayStation 3 developers; it’s going to have a huge impact upon the gaming public when it comes out,” he said. “I think it’s going to really start binding the PS3 online community together. I’m really looking forward to watching it progress, and MotorStorm will be a strong presence from the off.”

Go have a look. There’s plenty of good stuff in there, including a GTA IV review. Bet you can’t guess the score.

According to this PS3F story, the official name for Motorstorm 2 will be Motorstorm: Pacific Rift. The game was previously thought to be called Motorstorm: Pacifica. Is this better or worse? We’re ambivalent. Either that or we don’t actually care.