MotorStorm 2 out by Christmas, says BBC
- Posted February 25th, 2008 at 04:45 EDT by Mike Harradence
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A reporter for the BBC attending the Game Developers Conference last week has revealed some interesting tidbits on a number of upcoming projects for Sony’s PlayStation 3 console.
Among the more notable elements of his report include details on Evolution Studios’ forthcoming racing sequel, MotorStorm 2, which he claims is scheduled to hit shops in time for the 2008 Christmas holiday season.
The high-speed off-road romp will take players across a variety of new environments, including those set on tropical islands “full of interactive vegetation.” A four-player split screen mode has also been confirmed.
However, perhaps the most intriguing aspect of the report comes in the form of a nameless title due for release on PS3 in 2009; though sworn to secrecy under a Non Disclosure Act, the blogger notes that the mysterious title looked so impressive, he feels that Sony could be on the verge of making the next step “in what games consoles are capable of in terms of story-telling and immersion.”
Those of you who feel obliged to speculate as to the identity of this title should feel free to do so in our comment section below.
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IONIXX |
IONIXX- 4:49am GMT - February 25th, 2008
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is there any pics or trailers anywhere for motorstorm 2? i would love more than anything for a game to be made by sony themselves, the mastrs of ps3, the ones who know everythin about it, be taken and have a title that fully, FULLY- displays its power in ALL categries, realisticness, graphics, and the rest of the latter, perhaps this is it?
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Gomersoul |
Gomersoul- 5:11am GMT - February 25th, 2008
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maybe it is lemmings 2, son of lemmings!! Haha! seriously though maybe it is max payne 3. out just the same time as the movie. that would be top notch. good news about split screen for motorstorm 2, that was the only thing missing from the first game.
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princevegeta1980
- 5:41am GMT - February 25th, 2008
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at last split screen for motorstorm, good news for when my mates come over to my place especially if we have four controllers, just for this i'll deffinately buy it with my eyes closed. I think the title for 2009 might be a totaly new IP!
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PS3-The Ultimate Machine
- 6:07am GMT - February 25th, 2008
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With such news,i can already tell that E3 is gonna be BIG for Sony.
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chilledbreeze7
- 6:27am GMT - February 25th, 2008
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Wow, lets hope this new mystery title lives up to this early hype! Of course I can't wait for the Motorstorm 2 as well :) Looking forward to the new Tropical Island courses!
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TekkenLord |
HitMan00- 9:03am GMT - February 25th, 2008
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"A four-player split screen mode has also been confirmed" that's all i need to hear right now. i thinking that we won't see any trailers not until E3
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Naucious23 |
Naucious- 9:44am GMT - February 25th, 2008
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ive still been trying to get the first one but all these great games keep coming out
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Psydistix
- 11:17am GMT - February 25th, 2008
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Motorstorm 1 turned me off at one point and it was the first day that I played it. I expect more from an Exclusive title advertised the way Motorstorm was in the states.
I am driving a good speed and I am nearing a small ramp where there is a helicopter on a platform behind it already cranked on with the wings spinning. I said to myself, I am going to fly right up into those Helicopter wings and they are going to mess up this car something terrible. Behold, I fly up the ramp, on pace to get chopped up, and the car actually goes through the helicopter wings as if they were even there. No contact, no nothing. Just a car flying through helicopter wings as if a bad glitch or something. I put the game down seconds after that. In order for me to pick up Motorstorm II, they will have to give me assurance that this type of wannabe next gen realism will not be in this game.
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AclayPS3
- 12:03pm GMT - February 25th, 2008
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Thank God, I'm glad to hear that Motorstorm 2 will make it out before the end of this year because there has literally been no info about anything in regards to Motorstorm 2 and I'm VERY VERY glad to hear that it's making a 2008 showing.
However, in reference to the nameless title that was shown, Someone found an article on it, and they passed it along to me. In the article Phil Harrison was shown the trailer for the game and he was SPEECHLESS and he was totally blown away.
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Stickemup
- 12:28pm GMT - February 25th, 2008
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Motorstorm is good, but it really felt empty after a while. I do think that they might be able to make if great or close to in the second title. As for the unanounced game I really can't wait for E3, aren't we all really waiting for that TRUE Next-Gen tittle to come out? Uncharted was great and I bet GTA4 will be awesome, but I really wanna get that same feeling I got when Shenmue was coming out on the DC. I felt like I was gonna be able to jump into an actual world. Or the feeling of playing Mario 64 at Toys 'r us. This generation has been good, but I haven't had that feeling yet.
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InfernoReaper |
GrimDarkling- 3:05pm GMT - February 25th, 2008
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It's kind of surprising to see a Motorstorm sequel out this quickly. It hasn't even been released for a year yet. I'm not complainging though. I loved the first one and the split screen is going to kick some ***.
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I can only speculate as to the other game and even though I haven't played SotC yet, I hope it's SotC 2.
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@Xelios: The majority of dev time now is trying to get everything working on the Cell. With Motorstorm already having pioneered it for them, all they have to do is make the game.
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psn_frov |
frov- 4:17pm GMT - February 25th, 2008
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F#$K I'm gonna need a better job for all the games I want to get this year, anyway YES Motorstorm 2 has split screen and on top of that another title for '09 that looks that impressive should really be good, also Evolution Studios is turning out like Insomniac with popping games out every year, which is great in my book bad in my wallet
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The1Weapon
- 8:19pm GMT - February 25th, 2008
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If any game is gonna be more immersive and graphically impressive than I think Heavy Rain will be, I don't know what to say. Thats great about Motorstorm though. I don't know how they missed multiplayer split screen last time.
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Pablo0620 |
Pablo0620- 2:42am GMT - February 26th, 2008
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I expect Motorstorm 2 to be absolutely awesome. I loved the gameplay in part 1 but it was a bit shallow. More tracks, perhaps custom tracks, custom skins, custom vehicles, and a better career mode...and more. Yeah Motorstorm 2 is going to be sweet
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