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Awsome

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: March 08, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is aswome. Totally fun. And for the guy that posted "the odds of rolling or smashing are so high that actually winning is considered impossible" is a noob! I played my first track, never seen it before, won the first race. Get this game!

Rental at best

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 14
Date: May 17, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Motorstorm for the PlayStation 3 is a horrible videogame. There are 6 tracks that repeat over and over. It is a rental at best and a waste of money at it's MSRP. I played Motorstorm on my Samsung 720p LCD HDTV(LNS2651D)with a Monster Cable S-video cable(PLG300)and the graphics did not impress or look next gen. I would suggest to anybody interested in the game to download the playable demo onto their PS3 console first or rent it!
CONS
No microphone
Graphics
Soundtrack
Price
Sensitive controls for small vehicles
No story mode
Difficulty
No off-line multi-player
6 tracks only
PROS
A.I.
Sixaxis control
Changing terrain

Great game/ not next-gen in my eyes though.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 15
Date: March 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I cannot begin to explain the feeling you get when flying along the ridge of a mesa at break neck speeds, trying not to fly off!! Man this game rocks!!! The control is awesome the vehicles are awesome and each has thier own weaknesses and strenghts. The physics are also very very good. Now for why I don't feel this is a truly-next gen game. Sony has made perfectly clear that they think thier system is better than any other and blu-ray is the ultimate format with near limitless possiblities. Now while the game lookes great, it is truly not amazing or breathtaking. You have only 8 tracks, and every one of them is some shade of brown. When every track is made up of the same colors and characteristics, whats taking up so much space? Certaintly not the soundtrack which gets really repetative really quick. And it also isn't the people or items filling the background. Come on, are horribly rendered 2-D static spectators truly next-gen? What about the helicopters in God Valley Mesa? Is that what spinning proppellers look like?
No I am afraid not. If it is not a vehicle or directly on the track it doesn't look so good. The far backgrounds - bland, the sky - bland. I have seen better skys on PS2. And you know its not the vehicles taking up space, there is a good variety and they do look good, but I have seen more variety and options on older games on DVD9. Oh its the 1080P taking up the room and making it next-gen, right?
Nope sorry folks its rendered in 720P. So what gives? All along all I heard is this game cannot possibly run on 360 only PS3? The only reason why that is true is because Sony paid for this exclusive, those developers didn't even (and I doubt they still have), touched an 360 or even know what it is capible of. Over all this is a great racing game with tons of thrills, and it is probaly the best game PS3 has going for it right now. I just don't see it as Sony promised it would be, a hands down showing of what next-gen is all about.

Just plain fun

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: March 08, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Great graphics, great soundtrack, loads of fun for everyone in the family.

Just plain dirty fun!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: March 08, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I have been waiting to get this game since downloading the demo on PS3 MARKETPLACE a while back. The graphics are amazing - the play is just plain dirty fun! You can almost smell the exhaust from the ATV's and feel the mud cake your face! The races are fast and furious where anything goes on the way to the finishline. Think of the chase/race in the Road Warrior / Mad Max series and you'll have a pretty good idea of what to expect.

There's been a few complaints about the depth of the game - Gran Turismo it's not. I don't think it's a fair comparison because it's not designed to be a driving SIM - it's designed to be a fun, high horsepower romp through rough hills & muddy bogs! In my opinion, the best PS3 game to date (also own Madden, Resistance, Marvel Alliance & Sonic - have played demos for the rest)!

Misleading in the number of players

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: November 17, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I would love for game advertisers to know the difference between online multiplayer and console multiplayer. There is a very important difference. This game lacks the ability to be played as a multiplayer console game.

Sony, your misleading advertising (through lack information) is most disappointing.

Best Racer of the year

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 06, 2007
Author: Amazon User

in short, this is my game of the year for 2007. here is my review from my blog.


so the time has come to give this game is proper space in my blog. a bit of background, this game is the reason i have a ps3, and it is by far the best game to date on the system in my opinion. it is more pick up and play for the normal nub, and if you give it the ten seconds it deserves to learn the play then you really get swallowed into an insanely fun world.

despite the above statements, this game does have its flaws. first off there is one horrible control setting that was chosen for the default settings. go to options, turn down the music or what not and then go to controls and choose the one where x is the gas o is the e-brake, etc. also, if you want to use the sixaxis, then you need to start with it until you get used to it, and as i say to everyone, you lock your elbows and move just your wrists.

ok, so the game is jam packed full of 21 "tickets" meaning you have anywhere from 2-4 races that you need to beat. some will take you and hour or so to beat a single race, others will take one run through. one cool thing about this game is that there is not a difficulty setting. you start on easy and then go to normal then medium and then hard. one note, "hard" starts on ticket 14, meaning you have 7 tickets to master the game basically. with every 2 or so tickets you get a car unlocked and by the end of the game you have at least 5 for each car class.

now, for the actual game i have a few things that i dont like. first of all is the first person views. some are great and others are just a 1 inch view of a hood at the bottom of your screen or sometimes none at all. also, this game NEEDS a rear view mirror. on the same note, when you push r2 to view behind you from the front of your car it gives you an interesting view when in the first person mode. basically it locks it on the driver side tire, and you view it from the end of the bumper and along the entire driver side length of your car. a pretty cool view. there is one other issue with the main gameplay that bugs the piss out of me. ramps, and hit detection are terribly off. if your car is heavily damaged and you go off some ramps (you will know what ramps they are right of the way) and then your car magically goes into the hill instead of up the ramp. next hit detection problem is when you are in an atv or a small car like a buggy, your car will just get torn to shreds no matter what you hit or how fast you are going. be it a tap on a bumper or a boost into the rear of a car, i explode but that car doesnt even move at all.

now for the a.i., hmm. a little bit of paterns mixed in with a pissed off drunken trailer park hippie is a good way to put it. these morons will always run along certain patterns and you learn to use this to your benefit. one example is on the track "tenderizer" at the start going down the right side of the track you will go down the hill and the car in front of you will go off the big flat rock swerve to the right and then all the way back to the left usually hitting you on the last swerve. it gets annoying, just boost past it and remember where the bots go so that you dont get pushed into a rock.

the overall concept of the game is amazing, the idea of racing in the desert with atvs, cars, and big rigs came out of no where and i was instantly hooked. about half the cars wont interest you (especially mud pluggers) and you will see a car and instantly be attracted to it and perfect it (Ex: Ozutzu Ronin, the racing car). but the cars do have flaws. when a lot of cars get on the screen the fps chokes up from so many physics being calculated, but it is actually a good thing most of the time because it lasts just a half a second and you get to look and see where you are going. also, the bikes and sometimes the atvs can ride the walls instead of exploding like other cars. lastly, some of the explosions for the cars have just nothing popping off the cars (big rigs just go boom) and others get obliterated (atvs become screws in seconds). and when your car gets damaged the parts that fall of arent always right. engine cavities are completely empty and it just get wierd when the front of your car is missing, yet you are still moving. it seems that design was taken away for some cars while others are highly detailed (Ex: Jester Super BXR).

one last note, go check out the special features. they are amazing to see what earlier cars looked like and such, please give them a look.

Graphics: 7.5/10, a lot of good stuff here, but again the physics and graphics choke it at times.

Gameplay: 10/10, bottomline the most fun i have had in a video game in a long long time.

Feel/Control: 8.5/10, default sucks, change it and your fine. sixaxis feels a little loose.

sound: 7/10, music gets annoying, and sometimes the sound gets muted when cars explode.

Pricepoint: 10/10, totally worth every penny, go get it now.
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Overall: 43/50 or 86%

Looks good, okay game play...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 28, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The graphics look good with nice crash effects and damage. However game play is rather boring as there are only a handful of tracks and you go through and unlock new vehicles and challenges as you win races. Same old racer, nothing fantastic or original.

Almost 5-Stars

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: February 07, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I really want to give Motorstorm a 5-star rating. It accomplishes great game play with beautiful graphics. I just got the PS3 and the included Motorstorm. The first time I fired it up on my 50" plasma I was blown away. The scenery is incredible. There is a nice assortment of vehicles with differing strengths and weaknesses. It's fun learning how to drive each vehicle. There are a few tracks where the scenery will make you dizzy as your vehicle leaps off of cliffs and you struggle to keep in control.

So why not give the game a 5-star rating? There aren't enough courses. You play the same ones over and over. The only off-line mode is a career mode. You have to score enough points to unlock race tickets and vehicles. As you advance to higher levels, instead of the computer controlled racers becoming better racers, their main goal appears to be to wreck you. The other racers aren't there to win. It's annoying when you come across another vehicle whose main purpose is to take you out of the race. Speed up, and they speed up. Go slow and they slow down. You are also forced to use a certain class of vehicle in most races. That would be fine here and there, but for the majority of races? It gets old. I got so tired of it that I've given up on trying to win the game.

The saving grace is the online play. It's wonderful. A free download enhances the online experience by allowing you to practice races using shadows of other racers. I found this useful in finding the fastest routes around the courses. It even helps you discover shortcuts that you might not have ever found without this mode.

In my opinion, for sixty bucks you should get a complete game. Game makers aren't satisfied with that price, so they make some items only available as add-ons available for download for a fee. The two courses that I purchased were tiny and nowhere near the quality of the courses included with the game. There is no way to preview an add-on. Making us pay for additional vehicles is pretty lame as well. I wish this practice would go away, but it won't as long as people keep paying for the add-ons. To be fair to Motorstorm, this practice is the norm, and not unique to this game.

Motorstorm is a must have game for anyone with a PS3. The game is easy to get the hang of and there is enough there to keep you plenty busy. I can't wait to see what Motorstorm 2 looks like. Hopefully they'll keep it simple and resist making it more complex.

The update and Dualshock 3 make the game a lot of fun

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 21, 2008
Author: Amazon User

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.

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