Motorstorm: Pacific Rift Preview

Motorstorm: Pacific Rift is the second chapter from the Motorstorm series. With a whole new island, better graphics and better gameplay mechanics, this time around Motorstorm will be a better game to play. With the Dual Shock 3, Trophies and In-Game Music this game can be a way better game then the first one. In the demo you can tell how different the game is when you are scrolling through the menu. Before it would take forever for the vehicles to load up but now it’s real fluid. You also have the option of playing friends that are in your house, before that option wasn’t there you could of only played online. Now after playing the demo for like an hour, I don’t think I can really get into this game because I ain’t really into racers like that except for Gran Turismo. The control of the vehicles is a little bit more complicated than the first one. You have to use more brakes around this time then before, but it seems that the motorcycles are easier to control compared to the monster truck and the pick-up truck. The one flaw about motorcycles is that if you just kinda nudge the car too much with the motorcycles you will fall off. Graphically the game looks a little bit better than the first one, but not too much. The one thing that I think they kinda failed at are the crashes. In the first Motorstorm the crashes looked more realestic than the second one, maybe they tweaked it down a little bit to make maps and the characters graphically better. Overall this is a game that I will/might pick up if the presentation is better then the demo, but if it doesn't I will make it a rental. It is a better game with all the new features than the first Motostorm didn't have, but it may not cut it.