Randomly selected European gamers to receive US MotorStorm 2 demo

By Tom Bramwell Published 5 September, 2008

No need to pay for Qore over here.

Randomly selected European PlayStation 3 owners will be able to get their hands on an upcoming demo of MotorStorm: Pacific Rift previously thought to be exclusive to US gamers who bought an episode of PSN show Qore.

Next Thursday the demo will be made available to US gamers who have paid for Episode 4 for the Qore show (USD 2.99), but Sony has said that a number of PSN users on this side of the Atlantic will be emailed a voucher code to access the demo as well.

The demo is thought to include a single track from the game's Air Zone, with support for single-player and two-player split-screen racing.

Sony has already said that the demo will be made available for free a few days before the game's US release. Sony UK has told Eurogamer that this will also be the case in Europe.

For more on the game, check out our MotorStorm: Pacific Rift hands-on preview and the MotorStorm: Pacific Rift Eurogamer TV Show, in which we journey to Evolution Studios and walk around and that.

Update, 2.42pm: Sony has told us that MotorStorm: Pacific Rift is not down for release in the US on 7th October after all, and should be out in November.

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Comments (47) Latest comment 3 years ago

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  • woodnotes #1 3 years ago

    Why? WTFITS?

  • TipTop #2 3 years ago

    Que? It's a demo Sony not a Beta, controlling a demo seems a little weird.

  • kangarootoo #3 3 years ago

    Its just for publicity isn't it. Its like making free maps available to certain players earlier than others.

  • DFawkes #4 3 years ago

    It does seem weird. If I got one I wouldn't even use it, I don't like Motorstorm one bit.

  • KayJay #5 3 years ago

    I got the Home Beta. I hope i get this too... :-)

  • charliemouse #6 3 years ago

    Does anyone want my Home beta in exchange for this? If only it worked like that :o(

  • Steroyd #7 3 years ago

    Guess it's so Sony can justify people buying Qore in the US.

  • Widge #8 3 years ago

    The demo comes out early for QORE's a few in the UK (so we don't pull the SONY HATE THE UK thing)... with the full demo coming out further down the line.

  • Olemak #9 3 years ago

    I liked the original Motorstorm fine, but I've heard that pacific rift is Qrap.

  • Widge #10 3 years ago

    Really? As far as I would assume it would play practically identical to the original, except with a new car, more varied environments and (hopefully) a more refined interface.

  • kangarootoo #11 3 years ago

    @Olemak

    Source?

  • neilka #12 3 years ago

    Play the Pure demo instead.

  • Widge #13 3 years ago

    Is Pure the "tricks in the air" thing? Because thats an instant NO for me.

  • peterfll #14 3 years ago

    Hello Widge.

    My thoughts EXACTLY. I was well disappointed with the demo for that exact reason. Why do developers think that we need associated joypad Olympics with simple game mechanics?!
    Edited by 1 at 05/09/08 @ 13:58

  • oreillymj #15 3 years ago

    Looking forward to Pacific Rift. My only gripe is that it seems too similar to the original.

    If they
    Fix the dog slow loading, vehicle selection.
    Make the different vehicles within a class actually behave and perform differently.
    Fix the cheating bastard AI wihich turns suicidal in later stages of the original.

    ... then I'll be buying this.

  • Widge #16 3 years ago

    For some reason, MS reminds me of Star Wars Pod Racer... no flashy tricks, just race and bump. Loads of enjoyment from a simple mechanic!

  • peterfll #17 3 years ago

    ...oh and back on topic, we must all feel grateful when a developer or publisher bestows their great demos on us.. thank you - we are not worthy...

  • rudedudejude #18 3 years ago

    It is even possible in the english language to have a 'Q' without a 'u' following it?

  • Pedrolot #19 3 years ago

    I hold no hope for this.

    90% of the people who got the Beta keys for resistance and Home are the people that never use PSN.

    /Betrayed

  • Xerx3s #20 3 years ago

    What a stroke of marketing genius.

    "We need to sell our product to as many people as possible!"

    "Quick, let's make the us gamers pay for the demo and limit the amount of people in europe who can play our demo!"


    ...

  • andyk #21 3 years ago

    I own the 60gb launch console, been an active user of the European psn, and the US one. So that probably means I won't get the demo in the same way I didn't get the home beta.
    Edited by 1 at 05/09/08 @ 14:09

  • hazelam #22 3 years ago

    so now we have to rely on scee's unfathomable criteria for being worthy of the honour of downloading a demo of a game developed in the same country where i live whereas any american with a couple of quid spare can get the demo.
    way to go sony.
    can you feel the love?
    Edited by 1 at 05/09/08 @ 14:08

  • El_MUERkO #23 3 years ago

    does anyone pay for Qore, why name something 'Qore'!?!

  • kangarootoo #24 3 years ago

    @oreillymj

    "Fix the dog slow loading, vehicle selection"

    I'm sure a movie I saw said this exact issue had been addressed. Not sure about the rest, though I believe the AI has had a good seeing to as well.

    @hazelam

    Which part of the word "random" are you finding unfathomable?

  • peterfll #25 3 years ago

    I never get invited. To anything - like parties and stuff.

    :-(

  • Widge #26 3 years ago

    I take it people missed the part about this being an advance of the demo and it will be available to all in the near future? Thats why people pay for Qore, for advance stuff? And as we don't get it, we get random advance to stop the moaners.

    Christ, its like this is the first system where one tier of people get the demos in advance of another tier or something.

  • kangarootoo #27 3 years ago

    @El_MUERkO

    It just seems to be another casualty of nu-metal style spelling that has invaded modern life. Putting numbers in words that describe the same number is another facet of this new plague.

  • kangarootoo #28 3 years ago

    @Widge

    "And as we don't get it, we get random advance to stop the moaners"

    You would think wouldn't you.

  • Phily50 #29 3 years ago

    So EG won't be getting 6000 keys for this then?

    /starts rumour on Official PS forums

  • nbnz #30 3 years ago

    DUMB. Oh, please may I download your precious demo to decide if I want to spend £40 on your game.
    Oh, you're only giving the demo to "special" people? Oh well, plenty of other games to spend my hard earned money on.

  • Widge #31 3 years ago

    is nbnz blind or something?

  • redgiemental #32 3 years ago

    I really don't see the point of this.

  • septimus #33 3 years ago

    I know we get it in the end, but wtf is the point of this? The demo is meant to help sell the game. Trying to build excitement for a demo let alone the game, by holding it back, just pisses people off.

    *edit* And if you ever logged into PSN, even once, you aren't getting shit. They do it to entice people who don't shop already via PSN to spend money.
    Edited by 1 at 05/09/08 @ 14:47

  • mischief #34 3 years ago

    I suspect the word "randomly" is a euphemism for "carefully".

  • johnnybrn #35 3 years ago

    Can I ask all those who are invited to the Home Beta, what's it like?

    Is it the second coming or a try-once kinda thing?

  • charliemouse #36 3 years ago

    I'm in Home and have fired it up about 5 times, shan't bother asgain. But then I'm an unsociable fucker.

  • Widge #37 3 years ago

    johnnybrn, check the blokes write up on IGN, then have a look at his screenshots, I found them most chuckleworthy.
    Like the idea of walking around saying random things to people.

    http://uk .ps3.ign.com/dor/objects/891773...

  • Olemak #38 3 years ago

    kangarootoo: my source is a person in the industry who has played the game in an unfinished state, I don't think he was really supposed to talk about it, and I guess I wasn't supposed to mention it either. Anyway, the problem was that in order to achieve four-way split-screen gameplay, too many sacrifices had to be made, both on the graphics side and on the layout/detail of the tracks. I hope he was wrong and that the game will be polished out of these problems of course, as I rather liked the original and would like to play rift as well if it is any good. I'm just not holding my breath, and I wont go out of my way to secure this demo either, expectations having been significantly lowered.

  • DrDamn #39 3 years ago

    The situation looks like a middle ground. We don't have the Qore stuff here in Europe - it's a silly idea anyway. They can't just give us the demo here cos that would piss off the US, they can't not give it out in some form as that would piss off Europe. So we get random selection able to get. Presumably they just pick names out a hat? Cunning idea to sign up as many email addresses as you have as PSN id's then and up your chances? :)

    I can wait until the demo just before release I think.

  • kangarootoo #40 3 years ago

    @Olemak

    Surely securing a demo is exactly what is required to set your expectations more firmly either way?
    Edited by 1 at 05/09/08 @ 15:42

  • Olemak #41 3 years ago

    Yeah, I will DL it whenever it's on PSN in regular form, but I'm not going to go out of my way to get it, not really psyched about the game after hearing the mentioned rumor.

  • Les #42 3 years ago

    "no flashy tricks, just race and bump. Loads of enjoyment from a simple mechanic!"

    Exactly. It's almost as exhilerating as Burnout 3.

  • collateral89 #43 3 years ago

    that means people who don't even like motorstorm might get the demo!!!!!!!!!!! p.s im not too keen on the game lol

  • godwin123 #44 3 years ago

    kinda pointless, as some people are getting it.... i will just wait till it releases on the PSN for everybody

  • degle #45 3 years ago

    meh, played a beta build at leeds. same old **** only 4 player.

  • DaveyJam #46 3 years ago

    very odd!

  • Gunzberg #47 3 years ago

    never enjoyed motorstorm, it was too hard, long loading times, long reset on track times, few good music tracks, lacked tightness in handling and kept coming off as a tech demo.

    Shame that I can't sell it for a good price since nearly everyone has it....

    Now the Pure demo, that was more fun in 5min than I had in all of Motorstorm, unless the above faults are fixed, i won't be buying