makingmusic476 on 21 February 2010
It appears that the domain Motorstorm3.com is registered to Sony Computer Entertainment Europe. Curiously www.motorstorm3.com takes you directly to Sony’s Official Playstation Website. So with that, I ran a quick Who Is search and sure enough, www.motorstorm3.com was created by Sony Computer Entertainment Europe on the 19th of January 2010 with an expiry date listed for the 19th of January 2012. It looks like Motorstorm 3 could therefore be on the way to Playstation 3. Motorstorm 3 would be the fourth game in the franchise after the original Motorstorm, sequel Pacific Rift and PSP incarnation Arctic Edge. Hopefully we might get an E3 reveal.
Glad to see the guys at Evolution are being given another shot at this franchise. After the sales of the last one, I wasn't sure it'd be coming back.
Maybe if they give this one more time in the oven (which they seem to be doing, as it hasn't been announced yet) and market it better, it'll sell better than the last. Pacific Rift was a nice improvement over the first in many areas, but it still felt quite rough around the edges. For all the improvements they made to the graphical engine, the low res ground textures and lack of AA brought down the overall look, imo. I didn't have enough hands on time to really comment on the gameplay, but I haven't heard any bad things on that front.
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