One of the best I've ever played before. It's just a shame the developers couldn't be bothered to make a game out of it.

User Rating: 7.2 | MotorStorm PS3
By hofstetter123 | Review Date:
this game had me interested from the first time i saw it. the videos, screen shots, interveiws, demos... it was all amazing. after i got it, however, it wasted no time in compleatly shattering my hopes that this might actually be one of the first really good ps3 games. while the gameplay is still everything it was in the demo and the graphics look even better than any of the videos, THERES ONE F#%^ING MODE OF PLAY. the first option you see when getting to the main menu is "play". this really reminds me of an arcade game. you can't pick how you play, you just do. when you get in it starts telling you about the routes best for different vehicles. most championship modes tell you where to race, and it's it not rare that it tells you with what to race but this is the first time i ever had a game tell me HOW to race.

Non of this really stoped the game from being exelent but it is a hinderence.
what kills the game is that you have no options.I can't name a single game in the past ten years that won't let you set up your own races, it's stupid, what were they thinking. hell, how hard could it be to set up an option to choose track, cars, time of day, and difficulty, theres no exuse for it. and only having 28 cars, 8 tracks, and 3 paint jobs apeice, REALLY dosen't help.

what was one of the most interesting things about the game was the whole motorstorm festival, but when they put it into the game it only serves as an intro and background for the menu. it had so much potential to make an interesting story or championship but they forget about it by the time the game has started.

5 things they SHOULD have done to make this better would be...

1. MORE MORE AND MORE, few cars, and few tracks, are big problems here and they should have seen that.

2. An online matchmaker of anykind would drasticaly increase value, searching for a game you can join gets old fast.

3. Make good on the promise of story components.

4. A custom race mode and maybe a time trile would have saved this game on their own.

5. It would really be cool if you could customize your cars or drivers.

If theres ever a plan for a sequel, these improvments would make the game near perfect.

overall this was fun and I've never seen more promise but as it stands, it looks like the developers got tired and couldn't be bothered to make a game out of it.

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