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Motorstorm Review (Japan)


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Motorstorm is pretty much the best off-road driving simulation ever to grace a console. The physics are so accurate, yet altered for arcade like effect, and feel so right that the development team must have had at least a couple Physics PhD’s on staff to pull off such a feat. From the deformable terrain, to the vehicle handling, to the dirt accumulation, and the exquisite vehicle parts detail, it truly is an incredible piece of software from a technical standpoint. From a game standpoint, things are a bit different though as the presentation and overall experience lacks in a few key areas.

 

The first thing you’ll most likely notice is that the graphics of Motorstorm are extremely detailed but don’t quite exude next-generation quality. Drivers have high polygon counts, every single part of every vehicle is expertly modeled, and yet the environments look pretty standard. Dust, dirt, and, mud grab onto your vehicle’s moving pieces as they rip away from rough driving and collisions, and yet all the vehicles look good but not great most of the time. The developers seem to have pushed all their processing power towards physics while leaving a bit to be desired in the overall graphical picture presented to the gamer. While everything looks good, I hope the sequel looks like the target renders.

 

The second thing you’ll realize is that the controls do take quite awhile to get used to. This isn’t your standard hold down the go button and power drift through corners game. In order to win a race you’ll need to constantly manage your speed and boost to keep yourself on the track heading towards the goal. Bouncing through dust, dirt, and mud requires that you ease off the gas from time to time and punch your boost while drifting through turns. With the R2 throttle held down you essentially tap the circle button and then hold down the boost as long as you can to power you through turns.

 

With no on screen indicator of speed you also have to slowly learn which terrain types slow you down. Different textured terrain causes more or less friction while driving over it and the obvious mud seems to slow you down the most. Feeling out the ground types by seeing how your AI competitors deal with the same areas of the many tracks in Motorstorm really adds to the fun factor as well as the difficulty. That along with no on screen radar really brings a racing thrill to the game I haven’t felt in awhile.

 

My only real gripe about this game is that the overall package doesn’t feel quite finished. The menus lack any kind of free driving scenario or time attack, all the CG videos are unlocked from the beginning, and well it just feels like they quickly slapped on the menus and setup some races. It just lacks a bit of polish, but you won’t notice this at all when actually playing. Also unfortunately it was rushed to market in Japan without online support that is supposedly coming for the US version in the spring. And last but not least I also got a bit tired of the whole desert scenario and I often wished there was more variety to the tracks. They’re quite unique and well made, it’s just once you’ve seen mud dust and dirt for the hundredth time it gets kind of old.

 

 

 

ATV road rage at its best.

 

If you’re in the market for an off-road racer the likes of which the world has never seen, then you must own this game. Remember the Playstation 3 is region free so if you can’t wait for the US release, go ahead and import this bad boy. Personally I’d rather play this through the holiday season on my shiny black PS3 brick than Resistance, the only other worthwhile game on the system. Oh and there are so many races, and some of them are so hard that it took me nearly 20 hours to finish the game entirely.

 

Import Friendly?

 

Almost all the menus and on screen text is in English. The only hiccup is if you want to change your controller configuration, as that menu is all in Japanese. Playstation 3 is region free, it will play on your Playstation 3 people!

 

Pros

Incredible Physics

Amazing handling and control on all vehicles

Tons of “tickets” and races to unlock

Free-for-all races involving all vehicles are so much fun

The technical aspect of the graphics

Great soundtrack

 

Cons

No online for Japanese version

Lacks quite a bit of polish in the menus and overall presentation

The desert gets old after awhile

Sixaxis control option is laughable and horrible

 

Gameplay 9.50

Graphics 9.00

Sound 9.00

Overall  8.50

 

Total 90/100

 

Tok bare med en del av reviewen, resten finner dere her

 

Ser ut som at spillet leverer på gameplay og grafikk siden. Nå forventer jeg at de gjør presentasjonen bedre, med bedre menyer og flere valg. De må også få fikset sixaxis kontrollen slik at det faktisk går ann å bruke den, om den er så dårlig som det påstås her.

Men en god online support og litt polish i menyer så blir dette ett meget bra offroad spill.

 

Skal kjøpes i mars.

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:) Reknar med at dette blir kjøpt, ja, men eg håpar dei leverar eit meir komplett spel i mars. Det verkar som om kjerna i det, sjølve køyringa, er veldig bra. Men utan skikkelege fleirspelarmodusar (då tenker eg ikkje først og fremst på online) og variasjon i banene, er eg redd det kan bli keisamt i lengda.

 

Kay

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Ja 1up var ikke like enige i siste episode av 1upshow.

Spillet som kom ut i japan hadde blitt totalslaktet i statene, og dersom det eneste de legger til er online multiplayer så er det ikke godt nok, for singleplayeren lar deg bare kjøre gjennom en campaign, du får ikke velge baner du skal kjøre på, du blir bare sendt gjennom campaignen og det er hele spillet. Noe som blir for tynt for et fullpris spill.

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Høres jo ut som noe skikkelig makkverk dette her egentlig, i og med at valgene er for er fraverende ;) Ser forresten at sixaxis styringen blei som eg tenkte, billig gimmick, ihvertfall i dette spillet altså.

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Vel. 1 av 3 av 1up editorene likte faktisk sixaxis styringen. De to andre likte den heller mindre.

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Ja 1up var ikke like enige i siste episode av 1upshow.

Spillet som kom ut i japan hadde blitt totalslaktet i statene, og dersom det eneste de legger til er online multiplayer så er det ikke godt nok, for singleplayeren lar deg bare kjøre gjennom en campaign, du får ikke velge baner du skal kjøre på, du blir bare sendt gjennom campaignen og det er hele spillet. Noe som blir for tynt for et fullpris spill.

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Hvis det du sier der er sant, er det helt latterlig at spillet fikk 90 av 100 poeng.

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