Sports Games

In all studies, development happens to be made, maybe just to pass the time or to test ideas, small games for oblivion. Experimental sketches, fantasy or ways to vent frustration. Born and die like that, without that necessarily must come up with something. Or sometimes it happens that you decide to give a chance for these projects. It is for example what happens with some regularity in the house PopCap , or just the concept behind the most recent production of Double Fine. It is the starting point from which arises MotorStorm RC.

MotorStorm Apocalypse was not exactly a success. And at this point does not matter if the fault is really attributable to known factors "outsiders," seem to think the members of the development team, or anything else. Now it's gone. And what comes after? It is just a little game born in a moment of relief, in an effort to bolster the morale of the group, trying to create something simple and fun. Something completely abandon all hopes of entertainment and technical strength, focusing exclusively on gameplay. Something that at one point took life and became a project that, perhaps, worth proposing to Sony. And the guys at Evolution Studios knew perfectly well what the answer would be: "What about PlayStation Life implement it, maybe for the launch?".

And so, all things considered, in a move similar to that made ​​by Criterion with Burnout Crash , we find ourselves in front of a very special MotorStorm, which carries the brand known and called him back in the settings, menus and graphics in the cut in a certain taste for off-road, but then goes somewhere else block. And it is a brave choice in its own way, in a market that already seems to suggest a violent landing of many PlayStation franchise Life without special adaptations or revolutions, but "only" with the addition of some found touch and maybe a little 'of motion control. Here, however, follows a completely different way, and enjoy it.

The basic gameplay is very, very simple and allows you to take control of radio controlled cars to compete on different tracks in some kind of race. The driving model is clearly immediate, arcade, but does not give up a certain amount of depth, which is moreover evident From the wide differentiation between different types of car. While we no longer find the variety of old MotorStorm (no riders, because they would be tiny), the other supercars, muscle cars, rally cars and so on are very different: to keep the cars on the road most common matter is quite simple, but mastering a supercar, maybe dirt on heavy, is more complicated. To free choice in most competitions are added among other events dedicated specifically to a certain type of car: the muscle car, for example, can only be used in competitions such drift.