the last doubt on my mind has been erased. Thanks for this thread man.

Well, if you look at the ground in a few of those pics, you'll notice that the textures are pretty low-res. You'll never notice this in-game, but I think there are a few other issues that might become apparent in motion. This might be what they were referring to, among other things.

Overall it does look great though! :F

@Spartan: it's studentguy ^^, but I dunno if we'll be able to play together, I'm from europe.

I played smoothly in EU servers the other day, Im on the east coast of the US (I added you as a friend correct??)

This game is just flat out insanely good

Too bad there are so many other quality games to get that are more impressive than this one...cos i loved motorstorm 1

If i remember well there's an option to keep or remove the hud in photo mode, but it's totally ingame since it's 720p and u can clearly notice the 2x MSAA.
My only concern with MS2 graphics is some alpha coverage elements on some tracks, wich is related to the very own design of the game (vegetation and very far distance view) + sometimes the HDR is eating the MSAA, but some tracks looks really amazing and there s no question a big step forward compare to the first Motorstorm.
I love playing the Monster trucks, you feel so powerfull (!) i think it's the best new feature of this sequel.

The reviews have faired well enough.  On GameRankings, there are 23 reviews, 18 of which are over 80%, with quite a few over 90.

The issue is that OPM NA gave it a 60, bringing the average way down to barely 80%.  A PlayStation magazine, would've thought.

OPM is a joke! I'm not renewing my subscription as the magazine has went  WAY downhill in the past year.

I saw you in a couple races last night...I beat ya

Looks pretty impressive. I own the first one, maybe I will eventually come around to this.