In all seriousness, this is a game that should've never been made. People STILL dont know if this is an Arcade or Sim racer and that speaks volumes about how terrible the hook is for this game. I mean seriously, what IS the hook? Car porn? We've been getting that from Forza and GT for over two decades now. How cares if they modeled the fibers on the car seat? When do you look at the car seat anyway?

They should've instead tried to recreate the Motorstorm E3 2005 trailer as faithfully as they can with the next gen specs. It's probably impossible given how detailed it was, but even at 50% it would've blown minds. Sure, Motorstorm wasn't exactly selling like hot cakes, but sell it at launch and watch it sell millions like Ryse, Dead Rising and Forza did.

I want to say that both KZSF and Infamous should've never been made, but Infamous has around 3 million views for all four of its trailers on youtube which is pretty impressive. I guess people want a new Infamous game.

@S0lidSnake said:

Carnage's Reply to this news.

Don't put words in my mouth drama queen.

As I've observed before, the original Motorstorm (despite the backlash over the fake trailer) was a big and deserved hit, but Evolution's games have been trending in the wrong direction ever since then. I blame most of the decline of Motorstorm on Motorstorm 2 failing to address the rubber band AI that was people's big issue with the original though its also true that the decision of Motorstorm 3 (and Split Second) to feature massive CoD style setpieces didn't thrill gamers.

The fact Drive Club, a game Evolution claims it has wanted to make for decade and has had a lot of time to make (its a safe bet most of the team didn't work on Motorstorm RC), has had to be delayed repeatedly is crazy. Judging by the team's track record and the state of the racing genre, its not going to be a big hit. If it had hit early it might have done okay (early in generations when pickings are slim people tend to give original games chances) but I'm not sure its going to do well if it launches against AC5, CoD and well, half of the industry's release slate Christmas 2014. Furthermore, as the shutdown of Irrational showed, giving a team unlimited time to make a game with limited commercial prospects just kind of allows them to make it harder for their game to be profitable even with solid sales.

I love all the Motorstorm games (the mainline games are a combo of Burnout 3, Sega Rally and Road Rash, three of my favorite racers of all time) and am somewhat interested in Drive Club (though I tend to prefer my arcade racers over the top) but honestly at this stage Sony should cut Evolution loose. Maintaining a big studio devoted to arcade racers (an increasingly niche genre) doesn't make a ton of commercial sense, especially when that studio is having problems shipping games.

Carnage's Reply to this news.

So the game is the real deal. I was right once again. ;p

I gotta say I am pleasently surprised to see Respawn be that upfront about the dev process. Especially admitting that 1080p simply isnt possible with a good quality AA. Regardless, the fact that they feel so strongly about increasing resolution means resolution means something after all. shocking.il