Great all around racing game! Excellent improvments compared to the original.

User Rating: 8.5 | MotorStorm: Pacific Rift PS3
I've never played a racing game with such intense racing tracks to this date. Its got alot of variety when it comes to vehicles and track selection. They added a few new features compared to the first title such as bonus unlockable tracks and you can choose your driver, water areas that cool down your Boost gauge, MONSTER TRUCKS! and more vehicles to unlock and 4 different types of tracks (earth,air, fire and water) to choose from.

I have not tried multiplayer whatsoever.Im still in the process of completing all the single player first which is quite long but very entertaining with a high fun factor right till the end of the game.

Graphic wise looks stunning. very colourful visuals and controls respond decent enough. Odd glitch i noticed when boosting the screen jitters and chops way more than its supposed to. Not a big deal.

The downsides is you get stuck on some tracks that seem nearly impossible to beat. Especially ones with the monster trucks b/c any part of contacting one(front,behind, side etc...) you instantly explode unless your in a bigrig or another monster truck.
It seems certain vehicles seem unbalanced compared to others especially the mudpluggers and bigrigs b/c theres only a few tracks they can really take advantage of. most of the time your struggling to get ahead.
Also steering controls at times feels off and loose causing you togo outta control for no apparent reason!

All in all this game is solid. I love it and compared to the NFS series and DIRT i prefer this. rocky terrains and crazy jumps and tracks is my style. Boring rallycar flat gravel/sandy roads need not apply.