MotorStorm Pacific Rift Comments by Tom Bramwell

Looks okay.

Sounds good. Loved the origal.

@Arwin

When it didn't effing cheat!

First place, first place. First place. Use boost. First place. Oh man I am gonna win! First place, boost. First place. Crash.

Lost, again. FFS!

/ducks

Reads more like Hollywood's hands-on preview than Eurogamer's.

looks really good :D but i dont have a ps3 :(

Really quite enjoyed playing MS1, and if they fix little niggles like the sometimes odd collision and silly loading times then I'm sure I'll enjoy playing MS2.

I hear the resolution/30fps whining and frankly pffft.... gameplay is the deciding factor and a solid 30fps didnt hurt many other good racing games.

Would be nice to look at a non-smeared raw image.

Motorstorm + more tracks + more game modes + more interesting setting - annoying menues and car selection = will buy for sure :)

"Isn't split screen a bit 1998"

Grr... its attitudes like that that ruined the latest Burnout and the original Motorstorm. Racing games are meant to me multiplayer, and in my household, that means the same sofa.

"First place, first place. First place. Use boost. First place. Oh man I am gonna win! First place, boost. First place. Crash.

Lost, again. FFS!"

This is exactly why I didn't like Motorstorm at all. Having to do perfect laps in such a bump 'n' grind racing game just isn't fun. Or at least not to me. I only played a few hours in total before becoming thoroughly pissed off with it.

# Hurray for Hollywoooooood, la la la la la la la Hollywoooooooooood la la la la la la la etc. #

I quite like MS. I never won but that wasn't really the point, was it?

Agree the originals race mechanics were a little buggered, but it was a good racer. I will look forward to this, but I still can't help being a little snide when someone crows on about "a solid 30 fps 720p!" because I can still remember the good old PS3 60fps 1080p hype machine.

Small thing, but when they put split screen in a game, why's it (nearly) always vertical, why not horizontal? Surely in a racing game, being able to look up and down is somewhat secondary to being able to see a wider sweep of the track...
ITs something that bothers me in many games (shooters especially), limiting your peripheral vision but giving you a better ability to look up and down for some reason. Why not just include a toggle? The pixel-pushing is the same, surely?

CM's Dirt had a stronger career path than MS. But then pretty good plastic cheese fun. with mud.

"But isn't split-screen a bit 1998?"

You wash your mouth out right now, young man. No, not the soap. The bleach.

The good old rubberband AI issue - it's so old and as far as i remember you've almost always been able to deal with it simply by good timing - don't drive in front until the last moment. I think in MotorStorm there are definitely advantages to keeping the field together a bit (one of the main functions of rubberband AI) - there are few games where driving inbetween other cars in first person view is as exhilerating, with the physics, the interaction, the mud, etc.

Split screen in GT5 Prologue is horizontal. It's been vertical for a while on widescreen TVs because people thought that would work great as you have two almost square images. But for racing games it's not so good, as the wider view is something very valuable and especially once you get used to it in single player then vertical split screen becomes very difficult to deal with (but it's always annoying anyway).

Splitscreen though would be great for me, even better with 4 players, as thanks to the motion sensing steering a lot of non-gamers and casuals over at my place can play this game and enjoy it - but they rarely see the AI until they get lapped, so (for the 'casuals' to be playing each other would be better ;) )

"Isn't split screen a bit 1998"

No. I wish more games offered it these days. It is sad that it is now considered an afterthought.

Also hope they fix the horrible vehicle select screen in this sequel.

This looks like passable entertainment that I'll likely never buy.

Looking forward to this a lot, hopefully they've tuned dwn or got rid o the rubberband AI, as it was annoying.

"But isn't split-screen a bit 1998?"

ARGGGHHH!!! Don't discourage people from including split screen, you morons!! :-)

Small thing, but when they put split screen in a game, why's it (nearly) always vertical, why not horizontal?

What, now? The first split-screen racer evah - "Pitstop II" on the C64 back in 1984 - had horizontal split screen. You are very right horizontal is better for racing games. And they knew, 14 years ago...

Real friends is so 90s.

It's only become vertical lately because of widescreen. By splitting a widescreen telly in vertical, you basically get two smaller 4:3 screens. Horizontal on todays widescreens is not the same as horizontal on a 4:3.

But using horizontal split-screen only in Gears of Wars was a really really dumb idea, particularly when you character took up half of the screen.

I don't know, you could give people the option, surely. Most of gears particularly is all on one flat plane, you rarely have to look up, so peripheral vision is more important for me. If iI had my way, all games would have split screen options in them, because they are simply more enjoyable. A shared experience with a beer will always beat an online one....

@Groovy - Amen brother, sofas are made to be shared with friends, so should games be (burn in hell burnout paradise). Giving the option of which splitscreen orientation can only be a good thing, and it really cant be hard to do.