MotorStorm Pacific Rift
- The Island – A groundbreaking 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 go.
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The first Motorstorm wowed fans with its heady formula of brutal, unpredictable off-road racing, festival vibrations and stunning Monument Valley desert scenery. Now, Motorstorm Appeasing Rift takes you to a solitary tropical paradise in the Appeasing Ocean, ready for a whole new take on no-holds-barred racing action owing to thick swamps, dense jungle, immense peaks and steaming volcanoes.
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Not just pretty backdrops to the action, these environments take center stage in challenging players with everything in Mother Nature’s arsenal. Thick mud, tangled bushes, swift flowing rivers, choking volcanic clouds and searing lava pools all test the drivers to their limits and beyond. Expect a rich festival of off road racing, by the side of with a host of game modes and rewards. It’s brutal, perilous, relentless, and unpredictable and more than a game – Motorstorm Appeasing Rift is a way of life.
Even More Vehicle Classes and TracksAppeasing Rift ships with eight car classes: the seven from the original game (Bikes, ATVs, Buggies, Revive Cars, Racing trucks, Mud Pluggers and Huge Rigs) all reproduced in new forms, as well as the new Monster Truck class. Huge, but not as huge or powerful as a Huge Rig, Monster Trucks are surprisingly quick for their size and are able to roll over most other classes of vehicle and virtually any vegetation they encounter. The game’s list of playable tracks has also been doubled to 16 and are categorized by the side of the shape of the elements and the different environmental zones are found on the island. These zones are:
- The Air Zone – Tracks high up in the mountain and featuring lots of huge jumps.
- The Fire Zone – Track discharge with new land and pools of lava that come from the island’s resident volcano.
- The Water Zone – Here players will find courses laid out by the side of the the beaches and other water sources of the island.
- The Earth Zone – The typical rough, rocky mud-filled off-road courses similar to the tracks found in the original game.
Multiplayer Modes
In addition to the wild, anything goes singleplayer festival mode players of the originalMotorstorm game will remember and relish, Motorstorm Appeasing Rift also provides addictive multiplayer modes for both online and local play. These include the same rampaging, music injected, 12-player online support as the first game, as well as multiplayer options for local action up to four players. Play in local multiplayer modes are further enhanced by new four-player split screen functionality that when used in conjunction with the game’s 720p HD video productivity ensures clarity no matter how quick racers are moving or how much mud they are throwing up.
- The Island – A groundbreaking new radically different location for the festival.
- Unpredictable Events – Never the same race twice. Events will take place to change the race on a lap to lap basis.
- Split Screen Play – Play with up to 3 buddies on the same screen.
- 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 12 players.
- Improved Actions – A new level of control; punch, duck and ram using a new control layout.
- Free-play – Race how you want by making your own race tickets.
- Photo Mode – Snap your greatest victory or your most gut crashes and share them with the world.
- New Rating System – It’s not all about winning; it’s also about how you go.
Bells and Whistles: Tunes and XMB Functionality
As was the case with the original Motorstorm, the driving experience in Appeasing Rift can not be separated from the music that accompanies it. The game comes with a thumping 40 song soundtrack and players will also have the ability to pipe in their own playlists saved to their PS3 the ability to access others saved on your PS3’s Hard guide. In addition for players who want to find again their moments tearing across the island, the game also features PlayStation 3 XrossMediaBar (XMB) functionality and Photo Mode. XMB lets plays make movies of their races and access them from the PS3’s main menu, while Photo Mode allows you to take snapshots while within a race.
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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 hurt, there is no realism in the pointer from the game. There is too much slow down in framerate during chaotic choke points in the racing. With pop in problems in draw space, and screen tearing when rubbing up by the side of side objects, the game feels half baked.
The online part is also has too much lag to be able to delight in. I don’t recommend this game at all.
Rating: 1 / 5
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 dialogue box.
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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
I regret buying the game. Not my type of game at all. I like driving sports meeting, but with a lot of realism. I despise 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 potential button and keep driving. NO! I don’t like it! I’ll stick to Test Guide, GTR, Cabella 4×4 (which I’m not excited about, but it is indeed better than this one), Formula 1, and all the rest which I have.
Rating: 1 / 5
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 know 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 sports meeting are so far apart in quality and gameplay, it’s not even a contest. What’s not to like particularly about Appeasing 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 quick. When you do go quick, if your tire simply touches a rock or a tire/obstacle randomly positioned around the track, then you either flip over and your vehicle disintegrates or you don’t flip over and your vehicle just explodes…Wow…Splendid fun, huh?
2) Second, since you’re going quick 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 incorrect 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 pointer 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 hard for a player’s introduction to a new game? And as far as “awesome graphics”, again Burnout Paradise puts this one to bring shame on. 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 charming even when traveling at incredible speeds…Just as different as day and night.
You’ll either like or despise Appeasing 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
They took a splendid 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