| Online Support |  |
|
|
|
MotorStorm: Arctic Edge (PSP) |  | From: Sony
Category: Video Games
List Price: £24.99
Buy New: £9.90
as of 2/9/2010 22:42 PDT details
You Save: £15.09 (60%)
New (18) Used (4) from £8.29
Seller: john_mi6
Rating:  18 reviews
Format: Unknown format
Platform: Sony PSP
Genre: car-and-truck-racing-games
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Operating System: No Operating System
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 6.9 x 4.1 x 0.6
MPN: 1000000100000
UPC: 711719121855
EAN: 0711719121855
Release Date: September 18, 2009
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
| |
| Similar Items:
| |
| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
Head to the Arctic Circle for an off-road racing rampage, where sub-zero hazards, unpredictable terrain and reckless rivals ensure no two laps are ever the same. Racing just went off-piste so throw on your thermals and get set for a dose of pure MotorStorm adrenaline. - The brutal and reckless MotorStorm racing experience makes its debut on PSP and this time, it's tearing up Alaska
- Plough through 12 reversible, multi-route tracks with six classic MotorStorm vehicles plus the brand new Snowmachine and Snowcat
- Customise your vehicle to outpace rivals in style
|
| Customer Reviews:
Showing reviews 1-5 of 18
 Unique racer that has gorgeous track designs and a great career mode, but is let down by a few very important aspects. August 13, 2010
Nismology (Bristol UK)
Let me start with the few things that should be the MOST important things in a racing or driving game:
1. A sense of speed
2. Vehicle handling that you can master and adds satisfaction to the game
3. Good and varied vehicle design
4. Good and varied track design
Firstly, there are many things that Motorstorm on the PSP does right. The tracks are very well designed, with multiple routes suited to different types of vehicle. The tracks vary in difficulty and terrain, from muddy dirt tracks to deep snow drifts and glaciers. Each course has it's fair share of insane jumps, high speed banked turns, and suicidal sheer drops, making this game wildly different to your standard circuit racer.
Next there is the Vehicles you can choose from, almost adding a strategic element to the game. You can choose the standard buggy, which is easy to drive, but lacks straight line speed, the motorbike, which is fast, but looses time in slippery sharp turns, the rally car, the fastest vehicle in the game, but requires more skill to drive, the trucks, which lack fast acceleration, but can plow the smaller vehicles out of the way. You can also drive snowmobiles, quad bikes and snowcats (like tanks with snow plows).
The game is very well presented, with an excellent menu system, intuitive career (festival) mode and a huge array of unlockables. The soundtrack is one of the best aspects of the game, with adrenaline pumping songs from the likes of Pendulum, The Prodigy and Queens of the Stone Age and Motorhead.
The disappointment starts when you actually start driving...
I would liken the way the vehicles handle in this game, to trying to control a water skier being towed behind a boat. When you steer right, the car moves to the left hand side of the screen, and the body of the car rolls. It is hard to feel any interacton between the car and the road. Very well, you say, but I don't care if the handling isn't realistic. But I would say the handling of the vehicles in this game isn't even worthy of an arcade racer.
Then theres the sense of speed. The game has a sense of speed, but you are always left wanting more. When you're going flat out and press the boost button, you expect a sudden surge of speed, like in burnout or need for speed. However All the boos button is motorstorm seems to do is add more motion blur around the edge of the screen and make your car run wider in the corners. I swear there is very little speed given.
The third driving game rule this game breaks is in the vehicle design. Sure the choice of vehicle is varied, but you only get three vehicles in each class, and the looks of said vehicles is appalling. I would describe most of them as chunky and unimaginative. For instance, the third rally car you get, and the fastest is hideously ugly. Looks like a Daewoo thats been sat on. Most of the paint jobs are gawdy.
However, at it's heart this is a fun and unique racing game with great track design and gameplay, supported with a variety of game modes and an excellent soundtrack. This outweighs the negatives making it an excellent addition to your PSP game library.
 Excellent June 4, 2010
Tenacious DK (Ireland)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Really enjoyable game - not too difficult at the start, gets a little more challenging later on, though I haven't completed it yet. Graphics and gameplay are great, and very responsive. Would definitely recommend this game to anyone who enjoys racing with an 'ssx on tour' flavour!
Good game but major online bug May 3, 2010
S. Dunn (UK)
Arctic Edge will be familiar territory for Motorstormers; a career mode (ie Festival) together with Wreckreation (time attack and online). AE is exactly what you want, a PSP version of the PS3 game. The graphics are very good though the small screen makes things a little frustrating at times (not seeing little rocks that make you crash), but overall a strong `on the go' game that many who like arcade racers will enjoy.
On the negative side; Firstly, the AI - as someone who has golded the MS, MSPR & MSAE festivals I can report that AE is the easiest, a bit more forgiving, but I find the MS AI a tad boring now, ie easy levels to start and then play `avoid the kamikaze' in the higher levels. I wish they could have just given us a faster and more intelligent AI. Secondly, the load times can be really long, why not have an install data utility like eg Gran Turismo PSP to make the game flow that much better ? Lastly;
BEWARE - there is a major online bug - you cannot play in online mode using the MSAE servers if you have more than 50 in your PSN friends list, and the PSP can only be tied to one PSN account so any workhound is going to be a pain (eg creating a new PSN account). It is a shame that a woeful lack of proper QA has robbed this game of a good online experience and replayability
Online play is also available via adhoc mode and adhoc party but that will not help your online rating, give you access to ghost replays nor win the online badges (MSAE version of trophies).
Pros: a true Motorstorm experience in a PSP game, great graphics and the Motorstorm AI (love it or hate it).
Cons: no install data utility, major online bug and the Motorstorm AI (love it or hate it).
I rate 4 stars, if the online was not messed up it would get 5 stars. Note: I clicked 5 starts for fun, but only 3 show up, strange.
new motorstorm hit March 21, 2010
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
General racing: Very good graphics, It has a limited number of tracks but even though they are quite good tracks, as you work your way through the 8 different ranks many new vehicles, mini movies, and characters become availiable to you. The crashes are insane! 3 different vehicles in each class can be obtained by completing different events, which include Big Rigs, Motor bikes, Cars, Jeeps, Buggys, Snow machines and more!
Menu: You can customize any one of your vehicles, lights, bumper, roof acessories and paint pattern + colour. You can see your unlocks, achievements and badges you have collected.
Online: Certainly not the best part, If you crash you are held back a long way and it is very hard when you have only just started, but when you get used to it its pretty good. But still!
time attack: Propably the best bit, you race against the manufactures times and you can upload them to the online leaderboard to compare your time to your friends (or enemys)
I would definatly recomend it over need for speed, Grand Tourismo and Midnight club
 ok February 25, 2010
M. Cattermole (engalnd)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
i was expecting somthing a bit better
the controls take a lot of getting used 2
why is it a 12???????
Showing reviews 1-5 of 18
|
|
|
CERTAIN CONTENT THAT APPEARS ON THIS SITE COMES FROM AMAZON EU S.à.r.l. THIS CONTENT IS PROVIDED ‘AS IS’ AND IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE OR REMOVAL AT ANY TIME.
Powered By PodStuff
Contact Us | |
