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Incredible graphics, great concept, but this game gets hard real fast. -  - THE GOOD:
- Great graphics: the trucks look amazing, with reflective paint and detailed components. The courses also look great, with detailed textures and good lighting effects. The video cut scenes are incredible in HD.
- Vehicle choice: From motorcycles to monster trucks to rally cars, this game pretty much covers every off road vehicle out there.
- Vehicle damage: Vehicles crash in an explosion of parts. Very detailed damage after impact. The trucks get coated in dirt realistically.
- Simple menu structure: Very easy to navigate the menu, pick settings and races.
- Decent online mode, with a full list of courses and vehicles.
THE BAD:
- Single player game gets really difficult about half way through. If you make one mistake and crash... or somebody bumps you into a rock, you're screwed and probably won't win the race.
- No vehicle upgrades available... you don't really know if one truck in a class is better than the next, so you end up choosing based on styling and color. It'd be nice if you could see some generic ratings (acceleration, handling, top speed, suspension travel, etc.) and could increase these ratings with some add on parts after winning races.
- Online modes is lacking is stats. It tells you how many races you've won, and how many you've lost. Anything other than first, and you're a loser. This may sound like a small thing, but for me stats keep me intersted in the online portion of a game. Without good stats, I don't get hooked to keep playing and improve.
- Sound for some reason is extremely loud compared to other PS3 games. Hard to find a comfortable volume
Fun Game! - - This game is a fun racing game, graphics are stunning, and it even has online play so that you can test your skills against others around the world. Only downfall is that you have a limited number of vehicles to choose from in each race and it doesn't have just a freestyle track where you can practice race, and you kind of go off instinct on what terrain each vehicle you have best suits it. Crashing slow motion gets kind of annoying too when you can't just skip it and get on with the race. Otherwise great game for anyone who likes motor cross stuff. My little brother loves this game as it has to do with mud, racing, trucks, bikes, semi trucks, and baja vehicles.
Motorstorm review - - Great game awesome graphics, the only caveat is there's no two player otherwise great game to pick up.
Amazing at first, frustrating for most parts -  - The excitement of playing Motorstorm on my brand new PS3 kept me awake for few nights before the game arrived by mail. First few games were mind-blowing. I was more interested in crashing my off-road vehicles to see them blown off to 100 pieces in slow-mo! What is neat is that you can pause during a crash and rotate the shot 360 degrees to get a view of the blown vehicle. Little that I knew that all my excitement and WoW factors were going to turn to frustrations later on.
Here are some of my gripes with the game:
* Impossible to win after level 4. By the time you are in level 4, you would have unlocked few vehicles that you would *think* gives an edge over others in the race. On the contrary, the newer vehicles are less ambitious compared to the ones that are available by default. By the process of elimination you would finally figure out that you are better off using the default vehicles.
* Patch required to play online; patch could not be downloaded after 10-odd trials. Once the patch is installed you would be able to use the dual-shock controller (with shock) versus the six-axis controller that comes by default. Online play is plenty fun.
* Unacceptable load times: It takes anywhere between a minute to three for each race to be loaded. On top of that there is a 20-odd second lag between vehicle selection. When you are already upset getting smoked at the finish line, it gets very frustrating to wait for the game to be loaded.
* Challenging AI. No matter how good you get, you will find yourself getting smoked just before the finish line. AI finds ways to stop you just seconds before you are about to finish in the top 3. The key word is, no matter how well you play! If you have gotten past level 4 or 5, please do teach me the trick O'Master!
* 720p. Although this is not very noticeable. I was disappointed to play the game at 720p with a 37" 1080p Samsung 5 series with 5.1 digital HTIB system.
* The Sidewinder Gulch. Get familiar with this term because this will haunt you for most parts of the game. This is a track specifically designed to ruin your Motorstorm gaming experience. This is one of the hardest tracks to win, no matter how many times you try. You need to clear this round to unlock higher levels so you end up playing this over and over!
I am obliged to mentioned that despite these (major) gripes, I am glad I own a copy of Motorstorm! If you got a PS3 and would like to show off to your visiting friends or relatives, this game is a must have. There is no need to memorize controls, just throttle and blast away! You think you can handle that?
Had Potential - - We bought a PS3 for Christmas for my twelve year old son. We got Resistance 2, Rachet and Clank, Motor Storm and Indiana Jones temple of doom. Resistance and Rachet are a blast and I past them both within weeks. Indiana Jones was to kiddish for me (I'm 30), so this left me playing Motor Storm because I couldn't afford to buy another game. I ended up passing every race. I would race until I eventually took first place which would allow me to close out the ticket. The reason I bring this up is because I have alot of hours playing this game. It took me along time before I was able to beat it.
The good and the bad:
First the good;
1. Great Graphics
2. You can race as a motorcycle, 4-Wheeler, race car, 4x4 truck, buggie, and semi.
3. Hours of "fun" or "torture" trying to pass the game.
The bad;
1. This game has absolutely no story line and the ending sucks!
2. you race the same tracks over and over again, which get's really boring.
3. Poor artificial intellegence. You can race and never wipe out and the cars will still be riding your butt, or you can race and wipe out all the time and guess what, the cars will still be riding your butt. This gets real frustrating after awhile. I expect to lose a race and have cars all around me if I race crappy, but when I race good I expect to leave the other cars in the dust.
4. Some of the races are extremely easy, while others are very difficult. For example, the second to last race took me about twenty tries before I could finally beat it in first place. The last race, which one would expect to be the hardest, only took two tries. I actually would have beat it the first time, but I did a stupid move and wiped out before the finish line.
Overall this is a game that "could" have had alot of potential because of the vehicles and good graphics. It's to bad they didn't incorporate a story line, better AI and lot's more tracks to race.
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