People had mixed reactions to MotorStorm: Apocalypse, and though we enjoyed it quite a bit, immense disasters constantly happening on tracks wore thin with repeated play. Everything was more and bigger. Well, MotorStorm RC certainly is taking the opposite approach, instead shrinking everything down...
So, OK, “Apocalypse” is kind of a misleading subtitle for the next MotorStorm, if what we’ve been told is to be believed. Contrary to our early speculation, it doesn’t take place in a Mad Max-inspired, zombie-infested wasteland wherein the survivors waste their remaining resources on pointlessly destructive races. It does, however, feature a big-city backdrop inspired by several major California cities, which has been completely devastated by a massive earthquake. It also features a first for the MotorStorm series: a story...
Surprisingly few racing games are big on offline multiplayer these days, except for ones that end in the word 'Kart'. So imagine our surprise when Evolution Studios announced that MotorStorm Apocalypse would not only allow online play, but four-player split-screen too. So the UK GamesRadar team huddled around the TV to put this split-screen action to the test - and you can watch the results here.
Motorstorm Apocalypse is nothing like the Motorstorm you know. There are buildings collapsing like in Split/Second. There are supercars on the track like Burnout. And, most notably, there are people shooting at you and running around all over the racetrack - and you can knock them over.
They sometimes even hold onto the roof of your car for a few seconds, legs flailing around wildly as they attempt to hold on. And then they're gone, straight under the wheels of the next car. If we'd bought the game, we'd be looking at the disc and wondering if it had been put in the wrong box. This isn't Motorstorm - what the hell's going on?
MotorStorm was a sweaty, dirty game. Outside of Call of Duty 4 Sony’s console-exclusive off-road racer was the number one reason to stay online. It was a hard and unforgiving bastard too. MotorStorm was also buggy and flakey. Load times would wind you up long before the occasional random collisions sent your car spinning through the air in tiny pieces, in lovingly realised cutscenes that made Burnout blush. They couldn’t
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