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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.
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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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kangarootoo
05/09/08 @ 12:16
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Its just for publicity isn't it. Its like making free maps available to certain players earlier than others.
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charliemouse
05/09/08 @ 12:23
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Does anyone want my Home beta in exchange for this? If only it worked like that :o(
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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. |
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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?
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kangarootoo
05/09/08 @ 13:15
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@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? |
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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. |
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kangarootoo
05/09/08 @ 13:18
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@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. |
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kangarootoo
05/09/08 @ 13:20
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@Widge
"And as we don't get it, we get random advance to stop the moaners" You would think wouldn't you. |
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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.
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farticusmaximus
05/09/08 @ 13:59
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Bizarre situation regarding the demo there. Can't see why they dont just release it properly.
Anyway, regarding MS vs. Pure. They are completely different genres so comparisions are a bit redundant. Pure is not really about racing, it's about tricking whilst getting rediculous air. Great fun if you like the SSX series. Motorstorm is balls-out hang-on-if-you-dare offroading. Great fun if you like... well, it's just plain great fun! Pacific rift doesnt seem to have messed with the formula, just added little bits and pieces and hopefully streamlined the interface and added a little depth to the career mode. Should be sweet. |
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charliemouse
05/09/08 @ 14:10
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I'm in Home and have fired it up about 5 times, shan't bother asgain. But then I'm an unsociable fucker.
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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... |
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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.
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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. |
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kangarootoo
05/09/08 @ 14:42
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@Olemak
Surely securing a demo is exactly what is required to set your expectations more firmly either way?
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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 |
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