MotorStorm: Pacific Rift demo details

By Tom Bramwell Published 10 September, 2008

The contents of this week's taster.

Sony has confirmed the contents of the MotorStorm: Pacific Rift demo due to be distributed to Qore subscribers in the US and randomly selected European PSN users starting this Thursday, 11th September.

The track you get to play is Rain God Spires - an Air Zone track that takes you along a bumpy coastal mountain circuit with plenty of ups and downs to highlight the game's massive draw distance.

There's no online play in the demo, but you will be able to play it in two-player split-screen as well as single-player.

If the name sounds familiar, it should; Rain God Spires is a sort of sequel to Rain God Mesa, the mountaintop track that starred in the original MotorStorm demo and gave us our first glimpse of what Evolution's racing game - now series - has to offer.

Check out today's MotorStorm: Pacific Rift hands-on preview for a bit on Spires, and more on the Cascade Falls and Wildfire tracks, along with some of our observations about track layout in general, the game's visuals and the new monster truck.

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Comments (16) Latest comment 3 years ago

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  • espadachin #1 3 years ago

    /slow clap
    what a great way of releasing a demo, do they want people to play this or not?
    Edited by 1 at 10/09/08 @ 12:54

  • Aretak #2 3 years ago

    I bought an episode of Qore for this. I felt dirty afterwards.

  • Milk #3 3 years ago

    "randomly selected European PSN users"

    Fuck off sony.

  • SimonM7 #4 3 years ago

    Hahah. God dammit.

    I really don't... hahah.

    I really don't know where things are going when we're "lucky" to recieve promotional material. I mean there used to be a time when you couldn't keep stuff out the door, companies trying to jam their stuff down our collective gobs. Now we're paying for it or recieving it as some kind of VIP gift.

    Dear devs/publishers; demos are INTERACTIVE TRAILERS, it's YOUR SHOT at giving us a taste of the game and incite us to buy it. Soon we'll need trailers and demos for the demos.

  • X201 #5 3 years ago

    SimonM7 "Hahah. God dammit.

    I really don't... hahah.

    I really don't know where thin...."

    Wot he just said +1

  • dominalien #6 3 years ago

    C'mon. It's not the end of the world. The demo will be released to everyone before the game launches. Even though I played the 1st Motorstorm to death, I can wait some more for the demo of the 2nd one.

  • betahoven #7 3 years ago

    Post deleted at 09:36:16 17-12-2011

  • NinjaWilliams #8 3 years ago

    Yesh, be patient kiddies - this is exactly wot happened to the demo of Naruto Ultimate Storm - came out not long after QORE...

  • moz4720 #9 3 years ago

    I'd love to give this game a go!!!

  • captain-future #10 3 years ago

    still HOW they distribute the demo is BRAIN DEADILY STUPID (if that's a word)!!!

  • godwin123 #11 3 years ago

    i just cant wait for the demo to come out of the people who dont have Qore... that includes me

  • ligurmatic #12 3 years ago

    One of my biggest complaints about XBL silver was the delay in getting demos, and it's very disappointing to see Sony pull the same trick.

  • RustyBullet #13 3 years ago

    i loved the first one and would like to get my hands on this but come on Sony cut the shit.

  • CT2kX #14 3 years ago

    well i was a lucky EU person to be selected for the demo, its downlaoding right now i had no idea about it untill i recieved an email earlier!

    but i agree, this is a stupid way of releasing demos, betas i understand but this sucks, i feel the pain of those who havnt been chosen and really want to play it, congratz to sony for creating a few sales losses due to personal boycots!

  • wayneh #15 3 years ago

    I was chosen.....but I don't know why?

  • CT2kX #16 3 years ago

    The demo will be released on ps store, but not untill either just before or just after the games release, this is just a way of getting more to download and play the demo by making people who have it early feel lucky.