MotorStorm

List Price: $29.99 Discount Price: $17.99

Features:

• Race in amazing scenic environments that capture some of America's most recognizable desert landmarks - Wide-open plains, harrowing cliff edges, and tight canyon sections
• Attacking and Offensive Driving - Players must try to win the race & survive by using vehicles as weapons
• Cutting-edge A.I. reacts to situations realistically, locating the best routes and changing the level of driving aggression based on player actions
• Never drive the same track twice -- Real-time Track Deformation makes each lap different than the last
• New real-time Audio manipulation -- echo and reverb are filtered in for a unique live Music experience during each race

Accessories:
Ridge Racer 7	Sonic the Hedgehog	PlayStation 3 Wireless Sixaxis Controller	PlayStation: The Official Magazine (1-year)	Electronic Gaming Monthly

Customer Reviews:

The update and Dualshock 3 make the game a lot of fun [Posted on 2008-07-21]
With the addition of vibration and three levels of motion control sensitivity with an update, Motorstorm is a lot more accessible and fun to play. Before downloading the update, I would constantly oversteer and snake around the coarse. I have changed the sensitivity to Low and now it is much easier to control the car, although it does feel a little floaty. Vibration means that I have a much better feeling for the traction on the coarse and this coupled with the better handling of Low sensitivity means I have a much easier time handling the cars. So far I have stuck to the larger cars which are slower but easier to handle, and I would recommend a new player try the truck first. Using the analogue controller makes the game much easier, but the motion controls coupled with vibration definitely add a great sense of really steering the vehicles. I don't feel the game is worth full price, but at the discounted price I paid, it was well worth it.

Kinda blows [Posted on 2008-07-26]
Graphics are good, tracks are very large which makes for a fun game in general - but the vehicles are way too sensitive. Seems like every little mistake causes a flip or explosion requiring a do-over. Gets annoying fairly quickly.

What's here is good, but the game lacks split screen, more game modes, and more tracks [Posted on 2008-08-12]
This game is beautiful and easy to control. The graphics, effects, and crashes are all incredible. The variety of vehicles, and especially, the way the different vehicles force you to tackle the tracks in a new way each time is really clever. The small cars and bikes can't hold their own on the low track because the realistic mud and giant trucks, so you have to stick to the high road to master the race. The boosts are really fun, and the out of control collisions that happen when you get to greedy with the boost is sweet. There is a pretty steep learning curve to get the hang of steering, boosts, and how to use each vehicle.

The online works well, but there are only 8 total tracks, and everything is a race: no other modes. Most disappointingly, there's no local multiplayer so you cant play split screen with your buddies in the room.

You can get this game for under 20 bucks at gamestop used nowadays, so i think its worth buying for that.

The sequel, Pacific Rift, provides completely new jungle environments (something lacking in the first: variety of envir.) and it has split screen, 16 tracks, and you can play your own music in it!! It seems its goal is to fix everything disappointing about the first. I'm excited for it, but not excited for the 60 dollar price tag

Motorstorm [Posted on 2008-09-18]
I first played Motorstorm as a demo in Wal-Mart and knew right away that I wanted this game, but i didn't have a Playstation3 at the time. So, once I got a PS3, Motorstorm was at the top of my list. For those of you who like arcadey off-road racers, than Motorstorm is right up your alley. Its a visually appealing. There is a good vareity of vehicles to choose from (seven total classes) but its very limited in the intial track selection, of just eight right on the disc. The driving characteristics of each vehicle are fairly accurate. The bikes accelerate quick and get out of hand quick if you hit too many bumps. The heavier vehicles like the racing trucks and buggys are pretty decent all around type choices, and the big trucks are good to smash into other competitors and the mud, but take a long time to get up to speed. The racing is broken up into tickets, with each ticket having a certain amount of races that need to be run to complete it. you must finish third or better to move on. as you progress through each ticket, each race get more difficult and the AI get more advance, and aggravatingly so at times. The competition will deliberatly slam into you and drive you off a cliff, or spin you out at the last moment before winning. This could be a bad and good thing, but it certainly means you need to remain aware. More tracks are availble to download, as well as a few extra racing tickets that will really test your skills. Unfortunatly, some of the tracks available for download are only raceable online, or in the time attack mode, another download. All in all, the game is fun, but not a game I could sit and play for hours straight, especailly later in the game when it got aggravating. For a PS3 launch title, it left something to be desired, but its certainly got the racing right. More modes and some splitscreen multiplayer would have helped to. Motorstorm:Pacific Rift is coming soon, which is looking very good and is adding all the stuff the first Motorstorm lacked, so you may just want to hold off and get the second one.

Motorstorm Review [Posted on 2008-10-03]
I was not as impressed as I thought, but I am more of a FPS type gamer. I did like the graphics, but the action was a bit slow and the engines blew up too much. Graphics do show damages to vehicle as you play, but the tickets you have to buy to drive in certain events seem silly. Get this game if you are a true racing game fan, but I would recommend MX vs ATX more.

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