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PS3 is "fantastic," says MotorStorm dev

Posted on May 8th, 2008 at 07:25 EDT

Paul Hollywood, Creative Lead for the upcoming MotorStorm: Pacific Rift, recently described his experience in working with the PlayStation 3, labelling Sony’s latest home console as “fantastic.”

Hollywood noted how impressed he has been with the console after the team at Evolution Studios managed to circumvent the machine’s notoriously “tricky” architecture.

“PS3 is just fantastic. It’s tricky to develop on, but that’s just a learning curve,” he said. “You work that out and you cut corners and squeeze more and more out of it with each game you do.”

“I remember one minute in time when I just sat there and thought, ‘I can’t believe what this console is doing.’ I’ve been making videogames for 18 years now and I’m quite jaded, but I was like, ‘bloody hell, have you seen this?’ And it’s just getting more and more like that.”

Although Hollywood conceded that things would inevitably plateau at some point, he remained highly optimistic at the console’s potential for the foreseeable future.

“I’m sure it will come to point where it plateaus and [the jump between] our games will become smaller, but at the minute, because it’s a whole different architecture and you have the SPUs running in parallel, it’s a different way of development and we’re just cultivating different ways to use the SPUs, different ways of feeding them different technologies and getting different results out of it,” he added.

“It’s not necessarily trial and error but you try something for a week, which then gives you another idea and you try something else, so we’re still on that curve at the moment, going up and the future looks really good.”

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What are your thoughts?
posted 7:31am EDT - May 8th, 2008
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squeeze some more out, then. Because atm I'm not completely satified.

posted 7:34am EDT - May 8th, 2008
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Nice. Hopefully when MS2 comes out it will look better than the 1st one.

posted 7:55am EDT - May 8th, 2008
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For a launch title motorstorm was the best graphics racing game out there until prologue nothing on the 360 comes remotely close lets b honest

posted 9:04am EDT - May 8th, 2008
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Nice.. he sounds like he just got a "new best toy" :P (after discovering what it can do)

posted 9:27am EDT - May 8th, 2008
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I was impressed on how Motorstorm look, also with the PS3 10yr cycle the games will just keep on getting better, unlike the 360 where the graphics are as great
posted 9:34am EDT - May 8th, 2008
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When i see C.O.D.4 graphics in a GTA 4 world .....i will be impressed.

 

Tommyboy ;)

posted 11:00am EDT - May 8th, 2008
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Looks like he found out his new toy was actually a Transformer.

posted 11:35am EDT - May 8th, 2008
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psn id: gingo.... yay a developer actually think the ps3 is a good platform they are one of very few developers that dont complain about how hard it is to develop on

posted 12:14pm EDT - May 8th, 2008
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I love my ps3 and this going to sound bad, but like alti im feeling a little bit underwhelmed with it. Heres the dumb thing i play games and think WOW look what theyve done with that, but im always left wanting more,needing more like better graphics or larger maps....

i guess im just waiting for that game that blows my socks off. Or each game i play only brings me a little closer to what i expected, and therefore games i play later down the track dont seem as impressive as they would be if they were release games....its all in my head i think.

posted 12:53pm EDT - May 8th, 2008
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As a sony owned company i would be surprised if they said anything different.

posted 1:25pm EDT - May 8th, 2008
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What an awesome name, Paul Hollywood.

posted 1:45pm EDT - May 8th, 2008
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That´s his paycheck talking!!! XD

Still, good to know he´s enjoying working with the PS3

posted 4:30pm EDT - May 8th, 2008
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Someone send this article to Valve, Acti-Blizzard, and so many others! Though the Blizzard portion of Acti is the one that needs it, give an awesome Blizzard game like Diablo:D

posted 4:30pm EDT - May 8th, 2008
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Someone send this article to Valve, Acti-Blizzard, and so many others! Though the Blizzard portion of Acti is the one that needs it, give an awesome Blizzard game like Diablo:D

posted 7:01pm EDT - May 8th, 2008
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 Sounds great Paul... Motorstorm was a marvel both in graphics and innovation to the genre. Keep it up! 

posted 7:24pm EDT - May 8th, 2008
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Well that's nice to hear after Valve said all those things

posted 7:27pm EDT - May 8th, 2008
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PSN ID: tatti.........

Wow, he's actually not complainin bout the ps3, like all the other devs. I'm suprised.

posted 1:12am EDT - May 9th, 2008
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that's great. this is why Sony brought them in as 1st party exclusives. They realized that these Evolutions guys were seriously throwing themselves wholeheartedly into developing a killer ip for the ps3
posted 1:13am EDT - May 9th, 2008
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"No schit", says PS3 fan.

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