Riotguns MotorStorm Review: Nervenzerreissender offroad racer

Launch title for a console really are not generally among the very best games and will soon be replaced by relatively later appearing titles. Only MotorStorm consumed long from his reputation as a first real next-gen game for the PS3 and so I put my curiosity to these off-road racer, who gave me furious, fun and nerve-wracking 10 hours.

The gameplay
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Every year Motorsport Crazy meet in Monument Valley, to live out their lust in dusty, fast paced racing. Here the MotorStorm festival and increases access to the race and gets only one who was able to get a ticket. These tickets are the ticket to the event, which, however, can usually come up with four races first time one or two races. During the game, the career mode you will be able to participate in up to 21 tickets, which accounts for about 70 races. This race to rise to only 8 different tracks. 8th ?! That sounds like a very minor extent? Yes and no ... only half true, for these routes in turn involve different paths to the goal. Depending on which of the various vehicles you control, you are a serious racing truck better on the dirt road on the way, while bikes and quads should avoid these mud brakes at all costs and at first should look for jump passages and increased ways out or as a driver of a rally car bonus the top speed should exploit to the straightest possible routes. This also means that detours are sometimes no detours, but strategy for victory and an accurate track knowledge is essential for future success.

Mostly you are the game before the car class, sometimes you can choose yourself which car suits the track. Selects is a wide range of off-road racers as fictional motorcycles, quads, rally cars, SUVs, race trucks and trucks. With consecutive game more vehicles and finishes can be unlocked in the classes so you are not always on the road with the same mill.

Route architecture: 7/10
Vehicle scope: 7/10

The racing experience - Offroad pur!
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Very convincing white MotorStorm when finally the race is on and you descend a loss wonders when first driving wherever the hell you have to actually go. Until the lines envisioned, one depends first behind helpless and even the rubber band effect will not last forever. Not bad, since it really comes from the feeling off, the boost one conveys the pure sense of speed by Bluring that crashes recall drama and Spektatkel almost to the Burnout series and the learning curve plus initially steep rises. Moreover MotorStorm can score so that the route conforms to the race. You can feel natural when obstacles in the second round no longer lie where they have been still going on in the previous round. In addition, changes of the soil, especially in the deepest mud when the vices and pickups have left deep furrows. A great gimmick, because then a second and third round moves always different. Unlike similar games, you remain in MotorStorm to the finish in the highest tension, because the slightest mistake and the smallest hint of routine can be fatal due to the elastic effect. This causes a perfect 4.5 minutes not use the bean as it is passed with only a crash immediately from the top all the way to the back. In this exaggerated form, unfortunately, a downside of the game.

Conversely, this also means that the first two rounds are unfortunately canceled because you can start on the last lap his comeback easily. The victory recipe for MotorStorm is simple, but mainly from ticket 15 not so easy to do: it is enough, the final round to finish on a vehicle adapted route without crash. Let's talk about AI drivers. Surprisingly good and only a very few dropouts. Mostly they jostle ruthlessly to the player and push him preference in jump against rocks or other obstacles. Since the player is just frustration towards the end of the game from ticket 15 preprogrammed because, if one has come to this, no longer fails due to their own mistakes, but at the partly unfair attacks of AI. Of course that makes part angry, but it also brings a good deal of variety to the title, which counteracts the low-range variety. Taking the catchy, different for each vehicle type control just adds true with a few exceptions, the race package.

Offroad Feeling: 9/10

The presentation - Graphics, Sound & More
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Graphically was MotorStorm at its release Launch colleagues ahead very. The title can still like and you take from him that his 720p graphics knew well to use the resources of the PS3. The animations are a real eye-catcher and sometimes you are amazed even when dust stirred up, the vehicles with high-resolution textures show impressive leaps and spectacular crashes. Unfortunately, there is no intermediate or video sequences that have the setting lively can make and unfortunately the whole setting is in Monument Valley with the time somewhat monotonous sandy, but it has been learned and the successor to MotorStorm: Pacific Rift shows with the four elements ajar path contours as much more variety.

The best presentation showing the game in terms of sound and music. I have rarely experienced in recent years, such a catchy and to the game so perfectly balanced soundtrack, like MotorStorm. The heavy riffs of Nirvana, Queens of the Stone Age or Slipknot fit perfectly with the sense of speed and DN race. And the engine noise drone with a fervor that it is a pleasure to turn up the speakers. Much better is what a racing game any more.

As good graphics and sound are managed, the more compromises have to make the players in terms of load times and game peripheral. While the load times before each of the races run with about 15 seconds perfectly fine and that takes the player also gladly accept but what is not at all, are the loading times before selecting the cars. The presentation in this regard is very sober and unspectacular failed, so you betimes already wonder where 5 seconds to load to come per vehicle and per painting. Exasperated will be especially so usually take later the base model as the cars only look different.

The season is not exactly unusual opulent with about 10 hours of play time. As long as you need to complete the Career mode to 21 and the last ticket. But beware: In order to play the last tickets, all races have to be completed as the winner in the race of the previous tickets mandatory. So if sometimes satisfied with a 2nd or 3rd place, then looks at the end of the tube. Rather solved suboptimal. In addition, after the final victory in the last race flicker only the credits on the screen. So you have to be honest and confess that income and expenses here in only poor relation (there is no Trophy patch for the game) are. No credits, no sequences, only one albeit impressive panoramic tour of Monument Valley. The extras are all also only alibi, unfortunately there is no split-screen, but is waiting for the online mode with stable servers and a few lags.

Graphics: 8/10
Sound: 10/10
Charging times: 4/10
Time: 5/10

Conclusion
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MotorStorm was long the reference title in things racing game for the PS3 and is even today very entertaining, albeit with some quirks that cost the game eventually the fifth star. Nevertheless, the game at the current price is always a Basket value and makes besides still feel like the successor Pacific Rift. Recommended!