In the story mode there are three campaigns with varying difficulty that you unlock one by one. Some vehicles are better than others, but as your choice of wheels is pre-determined for each race it helps little - baffling when you're up against a mixture of rides, and you're swamped with a mixture of jealousy and anger as opponents race by you on monster trucks and motorcycles. There are dune buggies, super minis, muscle cars, trucks, rally cars, ATV's and more. It's a shame, as the selection of vehicles is rather good.

Motorstorm: Apocalypse is an arcade racer where you really can't drift - far from an optimal situation. It feels as if many of the vehicles have their centre of gravity positioned too high, and if you swing your tail end out to drift you quickly lose speed. Fatally the controls are problematic and overshadow the rest of the game. But there is no shame in that, and on paper it's a brilliant setup for an arcade racer.īut despite the great concept the game fails to impress. We've encountered levels with destructive tendencies in Split/Second, and the post-apocalyptic theme is almost as common as zombies in video games. It's a nice concept, even if it's not entirely original. What else? That's the basic premise in Motorstorm: Apocalypse, where you will boost your way past the competition whilst navigating collapsing buildings, burning houses, highways crumbled by earthquakes and coastlines hit by tsunamis. What do you do when the world comes crashing down and civilisation as we know it is falling apart? Do you have to ask? Race around the ruins.

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