OK, so I probably played through 30 more events (10+ hours) of this over the weekend and the game is freaking awesome. I'm probably a third of the way through the Festival tour and the more advanced AI is starting to kick in making racing truly BRUTAL.
One I just played was 14 motorbikes and one massive armoured truck who's just smashing through the bikes left right and centre. It's pretty terrifying being in 1st place and seeing this huge thing coming at you from behind - imagine Spielberg's Duel but as a race. Brilliant.
Oh and props to Evo for naming two of their events 'Massive Damage' and 'Giant Enemy Crab' respectively. Good that SCEE has its sense of humour.
I think we need to do updated impressions on this as there's way more to the game. The night courses under crazy HD starlit skies are beautiful too.
Did we mention the music freaking rules? All live versions, in surround sound it gives you that outdoor, Mad Max festival vibe. Small touches make this game seriously great.
12 racers. Yes, I've spotted a night course but it's a few hours in. Going back to play now... the hook of this game is stroooong.
No it's just kinda... dark. Not pitch black just sort of moonlit. No extra lighting on the vehicles from what I can see. Maybe I need to play around with it more.
Anyway if there are other specific questions post them and I find anything else crazy over the weekend we'll do a follow up on Monday.
BTW the intro is crazy... flyby over mountain canyons... first time I've literally had a hard time telling if something is real video footage or in game.
Some of it looks as good as the E3 trailer, but some doesn't. Like that trailer was pretty scripted (esp. the ending) and it doesn't play like that. But seriously, as a pretty big skeptic the earlier Motorstorm builds I gotta say the game has shaped up in really amazing fashion. I mean, this is from someone who wasn't really even sold on the demo they showed at TGS.
Yes, the courses are huge open, multi-course worlds, not unlike SSX - vehicles jumping over each other mud flyinh and insane jumps and crazy emergent physics doing unpredictable things, they've used the phrase 'no two races are ever alike' before but here it REALLY applies. Just hugely dramatic races everytime, great fun to watch too. First person view is about the best looking you I've ever seen, though not always easy to control (specially using bikes). Great sense of humour in the game too.
They're actual live versions of the tracks from what I can tell. Oh and sorry, it's actually 15 vehicles racing in a race not 12.
Oh and I just found an option in the settings to play the game with tilt control?! Badass.
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