MotorStorm:Arctic Edge

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  

MotorStorm comes racing back to PlayStation this fall with its newest game: MotorStorm: Arctic Edge.  The game takes place in Alaska and all the vehicles have been adapted to this.  It came out October 20th for the PS2 and September 29th for the PSP.  This game is sold exclusively to PlayStation’s PS2 and PSP (PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Portable).  The game includes fully destructive environments- for example, if you honk your horn or blow up you can start an avalanche, and the avalanche will then sweep away other players off the track.  I recently went to pick it up at the store because I thought it looked cool and worth playing.

           For any people who have actually heard of this game, it includes all new vehicles to play, including: the Bike, Snowmobile, ATV, Buggy, Rally Car, Snowplugger, Big Rig and Snowplow/Snowcats.  There are some awesome tracks, too: There are 12 different tracks in the game, such as Wolfpack Mountain, Eagle Falls, Widow Maker, Log Jam, Cold Rush, and Vertigo.  Also there is a “Mirror” mode which is all the tracks only backwards.  The game also has fully customizable vehicles; you can add different wheels, rear spoilers, exhaust pipes, and even paint jobs!  My favorite vehicle is the Snowcats because it’s huge, destructive, and pretty fast.  You can run over other vehicles and cause avalanches with your horn.

          Despite all the cool things you can do, there are some flaws in the game as well.  The bikes are totally unrealistic looking on the track.  Also, the choice of music sucks.  There are only one or two songs that I actually like, most I had never even heard of.  “Most of these songs make me think that the game is glitching up or the PlayStation is broken,” said my little brother after playing the game for about an hour and a half. 

          But all the same, I think this is a pretty fun racing game.  The graphics aren’t that bad and the game play is really good.  Over all, I think I got my money’s worth.

                                                                                       - Billy F.