MotorStorm: Arctic Edge | PSPgo | ®eview
The MotorStorm games are arguably the best looking/playing arcade racers you’ll find on a PS3, meaning Bigbig Studios had its work cut out delivering an equivalent experience on Sony’s handheld.
Fortunately – deliver they did.
PS3 Motorstorm has always been purely about racing. No cocking about tuning, customizing, upgrading, going for licenses or sticking to any racing line. Just press and hold the X button and roughly try and steer your way to victory. The tracks aren’t really tracks, they’re more like levels from a FPS – but with roads. And the gameplay (particularly while boosting) isn’t really driving – it’s like injecting speed into your eyeballs. Fortunately the same applies here. All of what’s good about Motorstorm: the freedom, the vehicles, the competition (yes, they’ve managed to keep all the competitors) and, of course, the hemorrhage inducing speed.
The default control scheme works well as you only ever press one button to go, and another to go faster; in Motorstorm – brakes are for wimps. Not only is the game good but there’s a lot to do, with 100 events to compete in across the single-player campaign, plus a shed load of multi player options – as you’d expect.
It looks good, like Motorstorm – but on a PSP, all set in an ‘Alaskan’ style landscape, with the obigitory mountain passes, ice caves, ice bridges, bobsleigh tracks etc. Again, all that really means is that the blurry colour you see through your streaming tears is white this time, not brown or green. As with it’s big sisters, Artic Edge’s circuits all have an impressive selection of paths, and this time there are also an impressive number of weather conditions to conquer. Add to that a few new vehicles; Snow Cat, Snow Machine and Snowplugger (to name but a few) and you’ve got yourself a AAA title.
Quite how Bigbig have managed to cram this game into little over a gig, on a PSP, is beyond me. MotorStorm: Arctic Edge has got everything the PS3 version has – only this time you can play in on the tram.
Awesome.
Subconjunctival hemorrhage awesome.
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