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Great Fun Online

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: March 08, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game will revolutionize the racing game. I'm not a gamer and was won over by the sheer fun of being pitted against 12 players in online play. Must have game for PS3.

Offroad addiction for non racer gamer

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: March 13, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I downloaded the free demo for the PS3 via the Sony Store back in December and I was immediately hooked.

The good:
- Fast game play is very fast, similar to the arcade game Hydro Thunder.
- Graphics are amazing and the game's physics engine in awesome. Heavier cars will fly by the lighter cars in the mud but up on the hard pack surfaces, the heavy cars are slow and lethargic (if on a motorcycle or an ATV, the big rigs will crush you).
- Vehicle selection. You have lots of vechicles to choose from covering mud buggies, trucks, rally cars, big rigs, ATVs, and motorcycles.
- Once you master the single player mode, go online and compete with the real experts. I thought I was good until I met that bunch.
The not so good:
- Load times are excessive. Have to wait
- Single player mode has lots of repeat race courses (have only been playing for a few days but out of the first 15 races, I've only played on 5 different courses.

All in all though, this game is a blast.

Fun!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: July 18, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I tried out the Demo the other day and after watching the scenes of my truck wrecking several times I just HAD to go out and get the game. I've always been a big fan of racing games, I have both Forza 2 and Dirt for the 360- both of which I feel are excellent games.

This game feels similar to Dirt arcade style racing, but I love the crash sequences a lot more in Motorstorm. When you get into a major crash the camera will actually start to pan around your vehicle in slow-motion as your engine explodes or your car starts to do barrel rolls into the side of a mountain.

The graphics, despite noted on the box as 720p are still very good. No complaints about the controls either.

Also the game has a wide selection of different types of vehicles. You can drive anything from a bike to an ATV, buggy, Big Rig, rally car, truck, etc.

And the vehicles come equipped with a nice boost, or turbo, feature to really get some fast speeds or to jump far off ramps. Be careful though because if you keep holding the turbo button down for another second or two after the turbo-bar has been filled up you will actually blow your engine!!! (resulting in another cool looking crash sequence).

The AI is good from what I have seen so far. If you drive up next to one of the other vehicles they will actually try to drive/knock you off the road which I thought was awesome the first time I saw it.

Also, 12-player online racing is available. Unfortunately it does not appear that you can play split-screen with friends though as I could not find that option when I had some friends over. That's my only real minor complaint about the game.

All in all I have found this game to be extremely fun, and definitely recommend it to racing fans, at least give the demo a try on the PS network.

Great graphics, shallow gameplay, no multiplayer, limited replay value

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 7 / 20
Date: January 04, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I had a lot of fun with the demo for the first hour but after that go bored with the one track. With only 8 tracks total in the release game I do not think there is a lot of replay value here, but it is definitely worth a rental and I still plan to do so. The vehicle physics in the demo were pretty weak IMO (the motorcyle was horrible and the buggy and truck average), but the demo track did not really require that much mastery of the handling (boost and e-brake do not require much skill).

After being a huge fan of Burnout I found the crashes very underwhelming and unsatisfying. The demo track is quite interesting the first few times you play it and I especially liked the jumbotron screen you pass and see a TV version of the ongoing gameplay. The different routes also had some nice risk and reward to them but I still felt the overall racing to be pretty shallow.

All in all not bad for a 1st gen game and the visuals are spectacular but my suggestion is rent before you buy so you can decide for yourself if the limited gameplay is enough for you.

Motorstorm is a Must

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 9
Date: March 08, 2007
Author: Amazon User

If you have a PS3 and have been (patiently) waiting for the games to arrive, wait no longer. Motorstorm delivers: graphically it looks great, control scheme is simple yet effective, gameplay is addictive, online is FUN.

Highly recommended

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: June 16, 2007
Author: Amazon User

If you own a PS3, buy this game if for no other reason than to show off the graphics. I showed this game to a friend who had never seen a PS3 before. His reaction was priceless. It's not just a pretty face, though. I love the premise of Motorstorm. You tear around Monument Valley in just about any off-road vehicle you can think of. I would've liked to have seen more tracks (the biggest complaint everyone has about Motorstorm) but the ones that are there are great and (for the most part) follow multiple paths. The game is tough (it is way too easy to explode), but the trick to completing it is finding the fastest line and race it every time (no matter what vehicle you're in). I was really disappointed when I completed Motorstorm, however. The credits roll and then... nothing. No bonus vehicle, no extra races. I know it's a 1st generation PS3 game, but c'mon, you gotta give me something. I'm giving this game 5 stars just because it's an absolute blast to play. I haven't had this much fun with a game in a long time. Some of the races are absolute chaos- you never know what you're going to see. Your opponents will run into each other, go flying off cliffs, and explode in high fashion. It's never scripted or staged, either. The AI in this game races like it wants to win. Online is tough, the gamers will run the fastest line and you'll never catch them. It's frustrating to know that you have no chance of winning 3 seconds into a race. Overall, it's a beautiful, challenging and slighty flawed game. I had a smile on my face the entire time.

One Serious Flaw!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 11
Date: March 20, 2007
Author: Amazon User

MotorStorm is a one-player game, unless you signup online. Then, it becomes a twelve-player game. Shame on a gaming company that charges over $60.00 for a single player game...ESPECIALLY a freaking racing game! It does not state anywhere on the package that it is a single-player game while not hooked up to the internet.

Shame on MotorStorm's authors...

Smacka

Awesome

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 8
Date: March 14, 2007
Author: Amazon User

You can't miss the bumping, banging, huge jumps, and explosions all in true next gen high def graphics. This is arcade racing at its finest. This is not a game like a NASCAR or F1 sim. This is chaos. The details in this game are amazing, so much so that during the bigger wrecks you can see the inner workings of the engine flying. The tracks are huge, but not so that you will get lost. And no matter which route you take, it will not give an unfair advantage to person taking another route. The mud, dirt and sand effects are coolest I have ever seen in a game. Mud, dirt, and sand will actually stick to the camera, making it tough to see in the dirtiest sections of the track. The game runs at a great frame rate, so there is a true sense of speed, even in the bigger vehicles. The online mode is great. It is a lot of fun talking trash on 12 of your friends and then sending a few of them flying off a cliff to a huge exploding crash. The game does lack in one player modes and there are only 8 tracks. The developers said that they are going to release more tracks and game play options through the PSN. So I would not let this stop you from buying this game. It is whole lot of fun as it is, and it is only going to get better.

A good racing game, but could have been so much more

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: July 30, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Motorstorm is an arcade style racing game that showcases the power of the PS3. Great graphics, stunning crash sequences, and intense action show just what the console is capable of, and this would be an incredible game were it not for a few significant limitations.

THE GOOD STUFF:

- Graphics. The graphics in this game are absolutely stunning--very impressive. The animation is well done, the crashes are spectacular, and the courses are highly detailed and look great (especially the mud on many of the tracks).
- Several vehicle types. Race as a motorcycle, a truck, a big rig, and many vehicle types in between, each with their own way of handling a track and even certain parts of the course they handle better or worse (most courses have a low, muddy route ideal for the rigs, and also a middle and high route for the other vehicles).
- Several options to take out the competition, ranging from smashing into them with the bigger vehicles to attacking them from a motorcycle. This adds an element of depth to the races that goes beyond the typical 'smash' type racing games where all you do is run into each other.
- Race online against up to 11 other people

THE BAD STUFF:

-Very few tracks. Motorstorm features few tracks, and as you progress through the game you'll find yourself racing the same track over and over.
-Insane loading times. Yes the graphics are great, but the loading times for this game are brutal. In fact the first time I raced the first race I thought the game had frozen because it took such a spectacularly long time to load. Not just before races either--expect loading times while choosing a vehicle, choosing your race...just about everything.
-No offline multiplayer. This was the dealbreaker for me. I've come to expect a head to head mode in games like this, and not having one means I can't play this game with friends unless it's over the internet. Quite a disappointment in my book.
-No customization. The vehicles (even though there are many of them) stay the same.
-lackluster progression. Win a race, unlock a new one, repeat. Yawn. Some bonus objectives, other unlockables--something beyond the same old linear game progression would have been nice.
-Control is nothing special. While I of course expect the larger vehicles to be more difficult to handle I found some of the vehicle classes, especially the rigs and trucks, to be more stiff handling than I'm used to. It's tough to describe or quantify, really, but I found racing the smaller vehicles very exciting while racing the larger ones somewhat unexciting.

Motorstorm is a pretty good game, but a feeling of unrealized potential permeates throughout. A couple features, like a head to head mode and maybe some kind of bonus objectives (collecting some item, smashing things, jumps, etc) while racing the same old courses over and over and over again, would have made this a great game. Instead it's a good game, worth trying before you buy. In fact, once the initial excitement of being overwhelmed by the spectacular graphics and great crash sequences subsides this game becomes rather mediocre in a hurry, which is a shame considering the concept and design are so good. That said, if I hear of a sequel I won't hesitate in the least to check it out.

Just one more race....

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: April 04, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Well I guess I'll add my two cents on Motorstorm. Most of everything has already been said so I'll just add that this game is very addictive. The PS3 is the first system I've had where I played anything online and with Motorstorm I've found myself saying "just one more race and I'll put it down", two hours later it's midnight and I'm falling asleep at work the next day. The graphics are amazing. The game play is nice once you get the hang of the controls. Since I have no friends (nearby), I don't miss the fact that there's no split screen multi-player racing. The load times can be a little long compared to other games I've seen but the fun of the races makes up for it. Unless you just have to have multiplayer split screen racing I'd say check this game out. It's addictive fun.

P.S. Am I the only one who's afraid of heights and gets a chill every time my bike/car/truck goes barreling of a cliff? Hint to developers; a nice death scream would be cool for MS2. If it wasn't a "T" rated game I would even say some expletives would be too funny. What's a car crash without an expletive or two, right?

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