MotorStorm: Arctic Edge (Essentials) (DELETED TITLE) /PSP

I got this game for my older brother for his birthday. I was looking for something different than the normal racing car games which you can get. So when i came across MotorStorm Artic Edge i could tell this game would suit my brother. I watched the short preview of game footage and i myself found it pretty amazing!! The graphics (PSP really does have some of the best features and graphics) are awesome and the selction of places/tracks and different vechiles well lets say you are spoilt for choice!! In all it was a great buy at such a great price and i have got one happy brother enjoying his new game!! It would be great if i could get this game on the ds??

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.

Sadly a psp essentials copy of the game rather than original label.

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.

A bit surprised this game does not have a review yet! If you liked Motorstorm then this is basically at its core the same game as on the PS3 but on the PSP - which is exactly the quality of games that we hoped for surely on the portable version! The psp is not a mini PS3 at all but it's pretty impressive the way the developers have done this - again if you enjoyed Motorstorm then check this out.

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!

Game dose not work. My boy heart broken.

Before this, i bought Gran Turismo and was bitterly disappointed. it just wasnt fun. i was hoping this wouldn't be the same but i needn't have worried. this game is excellent. you'll be playing for lots of hours too as the length of the game is pretty good. this is the first game i've played where there's alternative routes in every track so you can choose a different turning every time! pretty great in all areas i don't really have anything to complain about!

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El producto cunple con lo esperado. El reparto ha sido deficiente. No se entregó en mi domicilio y tuve que ir a buscarlo a la oficina de Correos.