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Motorstorm: Pacific Rift (PS3) | 
| From: Sony
Category: Video Games
List Price: £39.99
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Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 73
Format: Unknown Format
Platform: Playstation 3
Genre: car-and-truck-racing-games
Media: Video Game
Operating System: No Operating System
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 6.6 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: MPRPS3
UPC: 711719728658
EAN: 0711719728658
ASIN: B001FB56MK
Release Date: November 7, 2008 (New: Last 30 Days)
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: Quick Dispatch
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Product Description
MotorstormA 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.
Amazon.co.uk Review
A luscious island paradise might seem suitable for a relaxing holiday, but it also makes an ideal venue for off-road racing. The follow-up to MotorStorm trades the desert for golden beaches and verdant jungles that are as dangerous as they are beautiful.
 Stopping to admire the scenery is not a good idea |  The tracks left by other cars remain for the whole race |  The new four player splitscreen mode will be a party favourite |  MotorStorm remains one of the PS3’s best looking exclusives | The basic setup of MotorStorm - Pacific Rift is familiar: 16 different drivers behind the wheel of vehicles ranging from monster trucks to speedy motorbikes. Race courses are only loosely laid out, and it’s completely up to you to pick the best route for your vehicle. Take the easy route, and you risk getting shunted off a cliff by your rivals. Or you could risk everything on a more dangerous shortcut. Some may be disappointed that this isn’t much more than a change of scenery from the first game, but when it looks this good, that’s not much of a problem. Key Features - Paradise found: The game offers some of the best graphics on the PS3 with amazing attention to detail, huge courses, and a fully destructible environment.
- Track listing: 16 new courses (twice as many as the original) range from beaches to jungle with rivers, lakes, and even hot lava acting as obstacles.
- Take your pick: Choose from eight types of vehicles, from motorbikes and ATVs to buggies, rally cars, and monster trucks--all of which can be used in the same race.
- Racebook: 16 player online multiplayer features a fully integrated Web service for file sharing and more.
- Split the difference: For the first time the game features a split screen multiplayer mode for up to four people, so you no longer have to be online to play friends.
About the developer: Evolution Studios
Nobody can doubt the experience British developer Evolution Studios has with off-road racing games, with five World Rally Championship titles and the best selling PLAYSTATION 3 launch title: MotorStorm. Satellite studio Bigbig is also well known for the Pursuit Force series.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 8 more reviews...
 Bad game for great console November 27, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought this game as i enjoy having a few mates over during our uni nights in and saw this game and reviews as being very fast n furious n gr8 laugh but ended being so fidgitive and annoying and repetitive that i got rid of it afte a few days.The graphics arent really great for a next gen console,the choice of vehicles are limited, the tracks are very few if any and isnt worth a price of more than a 10 Bundle.
Good but with serious flaws November 21, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
The GOOD is the greater variety of tracks and vehicles and it is a lot of fun. I enjoy the offline multiplayer, a good addition. There are new physics which will annoy some people, I prefer Motorstorm 1 physics, but I am adapting.
The BAD; you cannot backup your save data and there are some major bugs, some of which corrupt your save file. So you will lose everything either through a game bug or when (not if - PS3 gamers know where I am coming from) your PS3 breaks down and find a lot of frustration when achievements go unrewarded.
It is potentially a very good game but I would avoid until EVO get some updates out, or accept that all that hard work could be undone or unrewarded in an instant.
 Best arcade racing experience on next-gen November 19, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I have played tons of racing games on different platforms and this is so far provide the best experience ever. The game does not claim to be super realistic but it looks/sounds and plays awesome. Also, you do not have any framerate issues in split-screen - so it is good fun for playing with your mates. Definetely must buy!
More of the same November 10, 2008
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Quick Review - if you have the first and liked it, what you waiting for this is better? For those new to Motorstorm this game is visually stunning, addictive and totally nuts. It's a true 'racing' game.
Longer Review - I thought Motorstorm was amazing when i first plugged in my PS3 many moons ago. The graphics on my 42" blew me away especially the opening sequence. Motorstorm Pacific Rift is pretty much more of the same, but don't let that put you off. Another amazing opening sequence, 16 tracks set over 4 distinct racing zones. Motorstorm lovers will be pleased to read the emphasis of speed still remains. Boy it's fast, too fast until course knowledge improves. Have still to play all the tracks and so far they are full of variety. As with the first, each track has more than one way to get through it, probably more so than Motorstorm. Graphics are what you'd expect and gameplay is just as fun. Some new vehicles and cool challenges. Online is good but still playing alone and can't say have spend considerable time online. The clincher for me is 4 players can play on the same screen (yes Motorstorm should have been released like this but this is progress). I have to admit though until you have course knowledge its a bit tough with 4 on the screen (screen divided into quarters) and i have a 42" screen. 2 player is a little easier and you can split the screen vertical or horizontal. The vehicles handle as well as you'd accept but you do need to get used to them, just like with the tracks.
Quite simply i'm loving this game, more of the same but differnet enough to part with the cash. A rumble controller is a must, it gives great feedback, it even differs depending on what vehicle yr on.
A worthy game for the collection.
......WOW November 9, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Great work Evolution Studios!!!!! They did an awesome job with this game. Normally with sequels, manufactorrs add tonnes of new stuff. In this, they've kept it the same as the original but added a few new things.
FOR THOSE WHO ARE NEW TO MOTORSTORM: This is probably the best racing game developed. Its 110% off road racing. You have loads of different vechicles such as Motorbikes, Quad bikes, Mud pluggers, Rally cars, Racing trucks, Monster trucks and Big rigs. You must choose carefully as each vechicle has its own ups and downs. Big rigs destroy everything it their path, Rally cars are super fast, Motorbikes are super agile. Not only that, you must choose the route you wish to go in a race. There are routes suited to light weights, medium weights and heavy weights. This is a supoer aggresive but purely awesome racing game
I love:
- The ability to choose your driver
- the ability to select a car model and skin in 2D with literally hundreds of choice (ALL of the cars from the first game are in this with llooaaddss more)
- The ability to race 4 player split screen
- Take your own screenshots. Yes, whilst racing, you can enter photo mode and fly around the map and take a screenshot to be saved onto your HDD to send to all of your friends.
- Different types of maps, Earth (Loads of thick vegetation), Air (lots of insane jumps), Fire (Lots of fire), Water (lots of water).
- More skill to boasting with Fire that heats up your engine and water that cools down - but be careful, lightweight vehicles can't travel for long in water as it slows them down...
- Play your own music that's saved on your HDD
- The ablity to ram into people with L1 and R1 makes for some super aggressive racing and awesome crashes.
- 16 different maps...
- More game modes: Elmintaion, Wreck Limits, Checkpoints etc.
- No more time spent going the wrong way. Press 'Select' and it will automatically put you back onto the track - so, when you get spun into a 180 you no longer have to spend ages correcting yourself.
- Crashing is never the set back it used to be. Even if you crash you still remain in the 'pack'
- Supports trophies
- THE MONSTER TRUCK (enough said)
The only downsides I can see:
- Ram right is R1 and acelerate is R2...When accelerating its hard to ram R1 (I found anyway) so I had to use my middle finger to accelerate so I could easily ram people with my index.
- Crashing is alot easier. So many small rocks which just make your car topple.
- Some maps have too much scenery that its hard to race...too many distractions.
- Some routes are uncealr. Sometimes you can ram through a barrier and onto a shortcut, sometimes you ram through a barrier and you go into a No Zone way - very confusing espically with the large array of scenery.
In alll...this is an awesome game in which EVERY PS3 owner must have
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