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MotorStorm: Pacific Rift

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http://www.ps3fanboy.com/2008/05/16/motors...om-soundtracks/

 

There's a bigger, badder and more badass sequel coming out this year. You guessed it: MotorStorm Pacific Rift. There's more to be excited about in the sequel other than interactive vegetation. If you didn't hear, Pacific Rift is going to have twice the tracks of the original, and four-player split-screen racing (something sorely missing from the original).

 

Pacific Rift is also going to add a number of commonly requested features, such as a Photo Mode, which allows you to take screenshots from within the game to store and share on your PS3. There's also Custom Soundtracks, which allows you to play music from your hard drive, so you can finally drive around thrashing to Britney Spears and Avril Lavigne (if you so choose).

 

Sixteen tracks. Twenty player online multiplayer. Custom soundtracks. Photo mode. Monster trucks. It really looks like Pacific Rift is really going above and beyond the original's offerings. Video, after the cut.

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Evolution: Pacific Rift offers "better AI, more tracks, the works"

 

 

With the game's release set for sometime later this year, PSU.com thought we'd check in with the team at Evolution Studios for a quick update on the title courtesy of Creative Director, Paul Hollywood.

 

First and foremost, Hollywood described how the team acquired a better understanding of the PS3 during its development of the original MotorStorm, thus allowing them to use the machine to far greater potential, creating the more “intensive environments” seen in the sequel.

 

“We’ve started from scratch with a lot of this game. We learned a lot about the PS3 while making the first game." he said. "This time we can use that knowledge to get more out of the hardware, and work more efficiently. So that allows us to produce the more intensive environments that you’ll see on the Island. It really is a whole world away from Monument Valley, where MotorStorm was set.”

 

“But obviously we don’t want to just have the same game in a new place; that would be unfair to people who buy the new game," Hollywood continued. "So we’ve gone back over pretty much all of the systems and cranked them up a notch or two. So we have a greater variety of vehicles, more tracks, better AI systems, a new game structure, better online capabilities – the works really.”

 

Philosophically, he said the idea behind MotorStorm was fundamentally to “entertain” the player, describing the game as being made deliberately more “Hollywood” than other racers on the market.

 

“When we created MotorStorm, we made a conscious decision to make it primarily to entertain. This might sound strange, but most racing games are there to provide a representation to the player of what that race might be like in real life. MotorStorm was different because it was made deliberately more Hollywood," explained the appropriately-named Hollywood. “This meant that we allowed ourselves the freedom to concentrate the action around the player, to try to constantly give them something to look at other than just the track ahead. We’ve brought this thinking straight into the new game too. So, basically, the MotorStorm games are all about trying to give the player a good time, rather than allowing the player to have a good time by themselves.”

 

Finally, when asked on what MotorStorm Pacific Rift will offer gamers that they haven’t already seen in other racers, Hollywood pointed to what he considers as the every “essence” of the franchise – brutal, chaotic racing.

 

“There’s always stuff going on, whether it’s a bike rider insulting a buggy, a rally car flipping over in front of you, or even a big rig ramming some other poor sap into a wall,” he said.

 

“We tried to make off-road racing cool again, and I guess from the number of new off-road racing games, we must have succeeded. But our games are not just about racing, they’re about racing in this messed up, physically demanding world in which everyone’s fighting and struggling for themselves. And it makes a great show for the player.”

 

We'll have more for you on MotorStorm Pacific Rift tomorrow.

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E3 2008: MotorStorm: Pacific Rift Hands-on

Evolution has come a long, long way in only two months.

 

http://ps3.ign.com/articles/890/890414p1.html

 

When we last saw MotorStorm: Pacific Rift at Sony's Judge's Day back in May, it was very early and didn't look good. It ran very poorly, there were constant graphical glitches, and it looked like Evolution Studios had a long, long and perhaps impossible road ahead of itself to prepare the game for release sometime this year.

 

Only two months later, the game is fun as hell, runs great and looks awesome. I'm not sure how the studio has come so far so quickly, but this is the sequel to MotorStorm that I've been waiting to see since the original's release.

 

In your garage, you'll also be able to pick your preferred vehicle for each class. So rather than having to first pick a vehicle class and then an individual vehicle prior to each race, you'll set up your favorite vehicle for each class, and then whenever you race in that class, you'll be placed in said vehicle. You'll also be able to tweak the vehicles in some manner, but Evolution is being hush-hush on what you can do with this respect.

 

The vegetation system was much more impressive this time around as well. The track I was able to play, Cascade Falls, was a lush, green locale situated on the side of a cliff. A couple of the jumps put me perilously close (and sometimes not close enough) to the edge of the track, and I had to struggle just to stay in the race. A couple of the shortcuts that I found weren't nearly as obvious as some that you'll find in the first game, and at least once I wasn't sure if I was even on an intended section of the track. Don't get me wrong, though - this was a really cool element to this and helped give the track a feeling of being rather unexplored.

 

It's also worth noting that I was able to play a split-screen race and the game handled everything extremely well. Visual parity between a single and split-screen race will have to be checked out at a later time when I'm able to repeat the same area multiple times, but what I saw was rather impressive.
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