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MotorStorm: Pacific Rift - Game Preview
By Flaviu Volosciuc
Published: October 22, 2008
Print MotorStorm: Pacific Rift follows the same receipt used by the first MotorStorm, delivering a high-octane arcade off-road gameplay with many vehicles and luxurious tracks. This time Evolution Studios changed the environment and decided to go for a more tropical location. Automatically this change requested a high demand of new graphical effects only possible to be reproduced by a modified version of the original graphical engine. In this way the physics system, almost unnoticed in the first game (except the rag-doll effects), becomes much more complex, the developers introducing also destroyable objects and dynamic vegetation. Still the game cannot achieve the spectacular dynamics present in FlatOut Ultimate Carnage. Improvements have been made also to the damage system. The vehicles have even more impact zones, so the visual experience after each incident becomes much more spectacular. Still there are no handling changes while crashing your car. A simple respawn will put you back on the track without a single scratch.
The demo present on Playstation Network consists of a single-player race with three different vehicles classes, and a 2-player split-screen race with other five new vehicles. Both racing modes use the Rain God Spires track, a track very similar to ones in the former MotorStorm. Although as already mentioned, the biggest change in this sequel is the new location, Rain God Spires cannot show what exactly can the graphical engine do, and many of the physics engine are not very easy deductible here. The terrain in general is a rocky and dusty one, with a huge jump that remembers me of PURE. Although Sony announced that water will have a big impact in the gameplay, cooling the engine while using too much nitro, not a single drop is present in the demo.
Besides water, new terrains are confirmed: volcanic mountain sides, beaches surfaces, jungle full of vegetation, caves, etc. The total of 8 vehicles are: a bike, a monster truck, two buggys, two racing trucks (one of which can be selected in both modes) and two rally cars, try somehow to balance the lack of playability of the demo.
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