Motorstorm, Between Schlocky Arcade and Tricky Twitchy Racer

I started Motorstorm for the PS3. This 2007 title is a little old and came with my playstation when I bought it in 2009. I just started playing it seriously and I seriously don't know if I'll stay with it for very long. This is an over the top racing game that takes place in Monument Valley. You race over mesas and buttes and in the muddy river banks, so there's buggys and rally cars and big wheel trucks. And mud. So much mud.

It's a tricky game and it's easy to fall off a canyon. The terrain is rugged and rocky. This is a far cry from Gran Turismo. It's more like Off-Road. It's also ludicrous to think anyone would race on to of a mesa. Then again, the beauty of video games is that you can go and do something you just cannot do in real life.

This game is old and it feels old even for a PS3 game. When you're driving, whether it's bikes or cars, you kinda have control over the vehicle in mid air. Remember when SixAxis was a thing? And Sony was saying that it was going to save gaming to have a controller you tilted around and that's how you'd play your games? And how it was nothing like that crappy Wii motion control? Yeah, this game is from that time. Some races let you pick any kind of vehicle while others force you to choose a specific type. Let me tell you, some types are no fun, namely bikes and big rigs. This is something that's telling me I might not go all the way in this game. The difficulty isn't ramping up too badly, but it's not the most precise driving game ever. This is a bad thing for a racing game unless it's a super goofy arcade game, which this game certainly qualifies as.

I'll let you know how I'm doing.