Today, new information about the 16 racing tracks from Motorstorm: Pacific Rift has been revealed. We've got all the screenshots for you, plus a shed-load of info about each one...

The Island is divided into four separate racing zones: Earth Zone, Wind Zone, Water Zone and Fire Zone, each with four multi-route tracks. Each zone takes the world's elements very seriously, boasting its own uniquely dangerous climate. Get right into the thick of the island's dense jungles when you enter the Earth Zone. Difficult to judge what's ahead of you, the island's heavy undergrowth hides all sorts of hazards, and the vegetation won't just get in your way – it'll fight back! Then, leave the undergrowth beneath you for the dizzying heights above you when you enter the Air Zone. Hurtle downhill, teeter on cliff edges and get big air on huge-scale jumps as you soar through four adrenalin-pumped racetracks.

Meanwhile, deep within The Island's volcanic lava fields, the Fire Zone is full of red-hot dangers forged into nature's crucible. Speed across four fiery racetracks characterised by rocky wastelands and creeping cascades of lava. The festival organisers have done their best to put up makeshift ramps and flags – but don't expect any crash barriers! Finally – it's time to cool off in the Water Zone – crashing across serene coastlines, through plunging waterfalls and across treacherous river canyons.

As in the original MotorStorm, tracks can only be accessed with tickets. Racers must obtain either a gold, silver or bronze medal in each track to increase their ranking and access more tickets to more tracks. Extra vehicles can be unlocked by competing in the MotorStorm Event- where you can throttle drivers all over the world as you play online via PLAYSTATION®Network. Compete with up to 16 mates or online players; and for the first time, racers in the same location can hit the gas in four-player split-screen mode.

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TheSixthAxis writes: "Unsubstantiated rumours are the foundation stones of many a site. Not us though. Uh-uh, no way, not never. So, we present a fully substantiated rumour. And by substantiated we mean someone told us of a link and we clicked on it and the link worked. And that's as far as we're going."
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MotorStorm: Pacific Rift is moving from the rugged desert to a lush Pacific island with all of the vehicles familiar of the first game (ATVs, rally cars, buggies, motorbikes, race trucks, etc.), while adding a new monster truck class. Evolution studios revealed the game is nearing completion as they have just submitted the gold master candidate to testers, to give testers one last hammering.
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ButtonMasher writes: A new trailer showcasing the carnage and demolition action present in MotorStorm Pacific Rift has been released, I thought it was just the run of the mill stuff until 1:01, when a behemoth dumptruck appears.
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Speaking with PSU.com, Evolution Studios game director Nigel Kershaw has revealed that MotorStorm Pacific Rift will feature a total of 50 Trophies for the player to unlock via a "wide-range of different challenges."
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Playstation.Blog:

"So a quick catch up. We finished MotorStorm, we thought it was pretty damn good, we knew we needed to make another one, but feeling a bit knackered, we decided that a bit of a vacation was in order. Skip forward a month or so to us sunning ourselves in Hawaii, beautiful place, lovely ladies, and most importantly for this yarn, lovely scenery. Dense jungle, lava tubes, mountains, swamps, volcanoes the works…."
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Threespeech reports:

We were filled with excitement here at Three Speech when we received the vehicle line-up for MotorStorm. But that's not all we've got - there's also a few multiplayer gameplay screenshots and the split-screen action is looking great.

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Stallone1993 here giving you my impressions on the demo of MotorStorm: Pacific Rift. Please note that the build that was playable in the QORE issue 4, was a build from E3 08. IGN has a new build and posted screenshots, and you can see it is a lot better. Why had they selected an old build for the QORE issue? I don't really know, but it still looks very good at the old stage - it just gets better in the newer build is all I am trying to say. Anyways, check out my impressions in the full article.
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Looks like Motorstorm: Pacific Rift's pre-release demo isn't strictly limited to the Qore subscribing elite. We've heard from many a tipster that Sony Computer Entertainment Europe has been sending out invites for the demo version of the Motorstorm sequel, freeing it from its shackles as a strictly pay-to-play demo.
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PS3-Sense writes "The invites for the Motorstorm: Pacific Rift demo are just sent out by Sony. The mails that have been sent out contain a code wich allows you to play the demo of the game. Qore Episode 4 buyers also can download the demo from now on."
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Three Speech writes:

"Don't forget to check your e-mail today, because you could be one of the lucky lucky people who got chosen at random to download the Motorstorm: Pacific Rift demo. Here's what you'll have access to:

Demo content:

* 1 playable track ('Raingod Spires')
* Single player & 2-player split-screen
* Offline play only

Have you got the demo yet? Have you played it yet? What's it like? The demo will be available to everyone next month, so if you didn't get lucky this time, there's always that to look forward too…"
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HDR has posted up a high-res image for the final US box art for MotorStorm Pacific Rift.
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SCEE has just revealed the official Motorstorm: Pacific Rift boxart.
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The demo for MotorStorm: Pacific Rift will be available for players who purchased the latest issue of Qore, and randomly selected European PSN users starting tomorrow (on the weekly Playstation Store update).

Rain God Spires is the name of the track that will be available on the demo - a bumpy coastal mountain circuit with plenty of ups and downs in order to demonstrate the game's massive draw distance.

No online multiplayer on the demo, but you will be able to play split-screen (and single player of course).
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PS3-Sense posted up the PAL-packshot of the upcoming game Motorstorm: Pacafic Rift.
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PS3Fanboy had a chance to check in with MotorStorm: Pacific Rift once again. An "80% complete" demo we played gave us access to four different levels: two single player and two split-screen races. Easily the most impressive level we played had to be the Wildfire level. This level takes everything that's good about MotorStorm and amplifies it to the extreme. Pacific Rift's play on hot versus cold goes into full effect here, in this dark volcanic level. It's unlike anything we've seen from the game so far, and it's a terrific contrast to the usual lush greens of the game.
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D+PAD: Following on from last month's rumour that Old Snake may be featuring in Sony's 'brutal offroad racer' MotorStorm Pacific Rift, we've spotted another character in the latest MotorStorm trailer that looks like a certain devil slayer.

A short clip of what looks like Dante riding a motorbike occurs at 1 minute 5 seconds into the latest trailer and we've pulled a screen which you can see below. Is it really him? Looks like it.
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Three Speech writes:
Three Speech has just heard that a demo of hotly anticipated off-road racer, MotorStorm Pacific Rift (as if we need to explain what MSPR is to you guys…) will be made available to a lucky few next Thursday. Some of you lucky lucky people will be selected at random to receive an email with a voucher code allowing you to download the demo, with it being made available to everyone else next month.
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DarkZero: Sony has announced they will be releasing a Motorstorm: Pacific Rift demo as part of their QORE subscription-based interactive online magazine for the PlayStation Network.

Those who download QORE: Episode 4 will get access to the demo, and get to play the game "a month before anyone else."

After this month long wait the demo will then go live on PSN as a free download, and be available for all to download. about a week before the games retail release.

No date has been set in stone for the demo as of yet, episodes for QORE usually go up the first Thursday of every month. Because of this a September 4th release in likely
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Ripten:

"Sony are the only console giant to have an official showing at this years Leipzig Games Conference and with promises of blockbuster announcements and possible new game revelations, what games do we actually know will be on show from the 20th-24th of this month? "
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