The Rise and Fall of Motorstorm
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PlayStation owners throughout the PS1 and PS2 eras had no shortage of arcade and simulation racers. From first-party offerings like Gran Turismo and Wipeout to third-party endeavors such as Formula 1, Ridge Racer, and Burnout, PlayStation players regularly enjoyed their fill of high-octane action. One development house-Evolution Studios-made a name for itself by producing sim racers for the Sony-owned hardware. Evolution’s World Rally Championship, or WRC, franchise received five PS2 entries, dragging fans into off-road excursions with impressive physics and audio designed to reflect the exhilaration of the life-threatening car sport.
Evolution pumped the brakes when transitioning to PS3 development, foregoing its simulation roots in favor of the arcade-driven MotorStorm. Often likened to the carnage of Burnout, MotorStorm set a new bar for off-roading by throwing away the rulebook that many racing games had long followed. The pursuit of these ends resulted in a racer that pit vehicles of disparate types against each other, with dirt bikes fighting for control of the road versus big rigs. Evolution made sure every vehicle controlled differently and every lap around a track offered new challenges, a feat it accomplished across multiple games.
But not unlike WRC before it, MotorStorm drifted to the background when a new generation of hardware skidded onto the scene. Instead of bringing the popular PS3 series to PS4, the developers hedged their bets on Driveclub, the immersive racer where teaming up with others took precedence. Driveclub’s unfortunate failure marked Evolution’s last turn at the wheel and spelled doom for the future of the beloved MotorStorm IP.
This is the rise and fall of MotorStorm.
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Great racing series with a unique character and gameplay. Wish Sony wouldn’t have dropped it like a hot Potato after Apocalypse. Imagine how spectacular a PS5 MotorStorm would look like.
Agreed, would love to see more physics based racing games with the power of the new consoles.
Motorstorm + DualSense haptic feedback is a match made in heaven honestly
Motorstorm Pacific Rift on the PS3 emulator RPCS3 look amazing in 4K60 fps !
imagine the dust and mud effects, and destruction
Amen I loved the first good memories
It's hard being a racing game fan nowadays
It is exhausting. I’m not sure why developers think the only format for a racing game is live service, but it’s really burning me out. No pun intended
Need to for speed unbound had great gameplay but the way it was was presented sucked. I absolutely hated the dialog and characters. Wouldn't usually be a problem in a racing game but there's no way to make the npc's shut up.
@@HyperShadowRIku21 I also hate that almost every racing game has this "festival" theme. Okay the motorstorm games had the theme BUT they made the format exciting and not boring and suppar
@@lutkuhuuli586 Forza is so bad for this. Devs are downright lazy and the gameplay is repetitive and boring.
Microsoft introducing paid online through Xbox live ruined the gaming industry
Motorstorm is straight up one of the primary reasons I got into Pendulum and DnB as a genre. Forever holds a warm place in my heart
I gotta thank rollcage 2 for that
Oh hell yea. "Pendulum - Slam" was my jam for so long and really still is. Was a huge introduction to a whole new type of music for me.
Motorstorm is a franchise that needs to be remembered. That whole era of studios creating the best first party racing games of a generation is something we may never see again.
I''ll never forget it....running to the school bus at the end of the day, getting home and unpacking my brand new PS3 with Motorstorm and Resistance. Loved both games but especially Motorstorm, I was blown away by the dynamic mud deformation and was even more shocked when I realised it stayed like it the whole race, seeing more and more tire tracks as the race went on was amazing to me, never experienced anything like it before.
Still one of my favourite racing games of all time.
How that came about? I mean getting a PS3 on a school day. Was it your birthday?
@@BUPMY1 Naah, I was lucky enough that my parents purchased it for me just as a gift. I still have the console to this day :).
@@Nades_legendary parents right there 👍🏽
Resistance was so good online with his pve against the alien hordes :D
Pacific Rift was such a blast back in the day it was nearly the perfect arcade racer!
None of them were anywhere near "nearly perfect", they were pretty good, so was Driveclub. All of the Motorstorms had major issues ESPECIALLY with rubber banding. Driveclub had the same issue, pretty to look at but issues also with rubber banding. Nothing with rubber banding that bad is anywhere close to perfect. Its piss poor design when no matter how perfect you drive they make sure the AI is always right on your ass
Exactly my thoughs
This and Blur were so good. Even more sad that about never got a sequel.
played the first two a lot in coach multiplayer, enjoyed them a lot.
I remember breaking my controller in half playing Pacific Drift split-screen because of those insane turns requiring memorizing the track.
Great video - I worked on Motorstorm, Pacific Rift & Apocalypse and a bunch of DLC. I'd forgotten a lot of that. Thanks for creating, well done, great info.
Thank you for my childhood 🙏🙏🙏
Thanks for your hard work! These games will always be remembered warmly by racing fans!
I remember being about 12, getting a lend of a PS3 and hearing Pendulum's Slam come on and thinking that Motorstorm was the best game I'd ever played. And that was just the demo!
I didn't own Pacific Rift until recent years, but I must've put dozens of hours into just the demo back in the day
@@carston101 get yourself a PS3 emulator. I wish there was a remaster
Please Sony bring it back
Terrain deformation is one of those things that should have been way bigger in todays offroad games. Just like complete destruction of environments and other things pioneered in the early 2000's, it all got put on the backburner while everyone focused on adding more pixels to everything. They chose the wrong path. I'd give anything for proper AI competition and real-time terrain deformation in a racing game. I don't need 8k HDR graphics.
Spintires is the best we ever got for that
The need for devs just to put on more shiny graphics hasn't even worked out that well! The promised 4k 60fps paradise of the current gen has not materialised, all while physics, interactive environments and AI have taken a backseat and are now possibly worse than 15 years ago.
That summarizes most of my issues with Triple A games. Too much emphasis on making things pretty and not enough on making them fun. The new Battlefields should have even bigger levelutions rather than what got now, for example
the genre has degraded to tech demo status.
no more arcadey racers that offer more like Underground 2 or Motorstorm.
Yikes. The moment I looked at the Thumbnail on my Feed I said to myself "Oh, this is going to hurt..."
Swear to god man 😭 the good die young
I remember buying the Sony Playstation branded 24" 3D monitor that came with the 3D glasses and a copy of Motorstorm: Apocalyse. Where the 3D TV hade a very cool feature where you could play a two player game on the same TV with both player having a full screen! Very ahead of it's time for a 2009 3D monitor!
I remember that, surprised they didn't try pushing the tech further as I remember looking it up it wasn't 100% perfect with ghosting from player 2's screen etc but yeah super cool idea to come out of 3D.
I played the Motorstorm Pacific Rift Demo so many times on PS3. I never brough the game but I played the hell out of that demo stage :D
You have no idea, I did the same, that volcano level.
Kanaloa Bay FTW, playing the remix of Romantic Rights by Death From Above 1979.
Always had to dart to the Wal-Mart gaming section to play the demo of Motorstorm's demo.
Motorstorm inspired my biggest hobby. It gave me dreams of being the most bad ass rally racer to ever do it. I'll never be in Dakar or any real tourneys. But when I take my rig offroad and turn up the motorstorm soundtrack... I still make the little motorstormer in me happy. Motorstorm never died, it lives on in the hearts of the children it inspired.
I recently bought a PS3 so I could experience these games again. I have to say, Motorstorm 1 and 2 were way ahead of their time. Somehow, they still look and feel (minus low resolution) up to date. I haven't played an off-road racing game that I enjoyed more than Motorstorm 1 and 2. I can only imagine how utterly stunning a PS5 Motorstorm would be. Truly tragic.
It's better to emulate them on a PC at 60fps and higher resolution
@@nickmotsarsky4382 Can you simply download MS 1 & 2 on PC or do you need a special disc drive and a physical copy of these games?
I would like to try playing these on PC but it just seems so complicated to set up the PS3 emulator.
Quoting inFamous 2:
"Half as long, twice as bright".
This series couldn't last long without a drastic change (Apocalypse was already a big one), so it was fun until it lasted.
Great video, this series deserved it!
Just wish they made proper ports for pc and ps4/5. Idc about new games i just want to keep then alive with pc and modern gaming. Emulation can only do so much
When you compare the volume of exclusive content with the PS5.
Having this game at a launch window was an absolute blast.
I wanted to make a comment on how fucking mindblowing Motorstorm's graphics were back in 2006 BUT... the graphics of your title cards are even better. Props to your animators.
I remember when I was around 8 years old, my mom and I went to a Walmart and in the video game/tech section they had a PS3 hooked up to a screen with the Motorstorm demo playing. I remembered playing the hell out of it while she went around shopping for groceries. Had such a blast playing it, really good times.
That shit looked more next gen than anything else to me at the time.
Same, that demo stuck in my head for years! When i finally got a job, I bought a PS3 just for Motorstorm lol. Well worth it
Aww,this one fucking hurts boys.
Motorstorm we miss you and hope you return… I never stopped playing it… Hell since PS5’s Disastrous 4 years I found myself back to PS1-PS4 Again and back to all the Motorstorm Games!
When this game initially came out, I was obsessed with playing it and a bunch of my friends enjoyed playing it too. I miss this era in video games. When things focused on the importance of physics effects, gameplay mechanics & feel, environmental interaction, a selection of gameplay modes, being able to play off-line against the cpu. Unique art design & visuals. This is what gaming should be focusing on.
Distinctively remember this game cause anytime someone would select to play the demo at a store, Slam by Pendulum would be blasting at full volume.
Playing Pacific Rift split screen with my friends as all ATV/Dirt Bikes with one Monster truck obliterating anyone who crossed its path was such a fantastic time!
Definitely one of my favorite racing games of all time
MotorStorm, my beloved. I craved more MotorStorm so much, I went and got my hands on the PS2 version of Arctic Edge. It was worth it.
So many good memories playing arctic edge on my PSP. This got me into Queens of the Stone age
I played this game on a overhead tv in a Walmart way back in the day. I remember thinking I wanted to stay there all day to play it.
Same I played the shit out of the demo of apocalypse at GameStop
First time in human history that the words "I wanted to stay there all day" have been said in regards to Walmart.
Fantastic video! These racing games have been a big part of my childhood and continue to be a favourite that I visit very often.
Glad to see that you guys are still pumping out this incredible high quality content!
This Game has lived rent free in my mind since the PS3. Such a technical achievement and frankly a lot of fun!
I'll watch the video soon when I have the time but wanted to quickly say that : )
I’m so happy the community came together for this channel, you guys are pure quality and love
Tarantula still lives in my head rent free. *LONG LIVE MOTORSTORM!!!!!*
First two titles were among my fondest memories of the PS3 generation...I remember being absolutely floored by the visuals!!
intro went so hard on the new 1080p tv
This channel is the best. Share it as much as possible. TH-cam trying to push out the smaller creators in favor of IGN etc. We can't lose this kind of quality content
They should have stuck to MotorStorm instead of drive club on PS4, Gran Turismo already has the normal car games cornered.
I disagree, arcade track racers are a dying breed nowadays and the amount of commitment they had with DriveClub is something to recognize. Something that Gran Turismo doesn't have as much as I like the series.
*I wanna take you on a rollercoaster...*
[TECHNO INTENSIFIES]
I still remember seeing Motorstorm for the first time at Target in 2006. The graphics and crash physics were very impressive.
Just imagine a Motorsport game on PS5!
Current-day sony doesn't care.
They'd rather give you an overwatch clone with ugly characters with pronouns.
Done, 7 season passes, 2 cars on launch and 50 to be released as DLC, you can pay to skip races, awesome!
@@Mecks089why can’t we have games with normal looking people anymore, IDGAF you purple hair creeps are NOT NORMAL NOT EVER WILL BE
The biggest take away i got from Motorstorm was the great soundtrack in the games. There's a few bands that game introduced me to that I still listen to today.
I honestly don't think there is a soundtrack out there that can balance rock, metal, and D&B as well as these. Whoever managed the soundtracks had good taste.
I can still remember the day my parents bought me a PS3 with Motorstorm for my birthday. I spent countless days glued to the game and it's addicting racing
This one really hurts, i was so hoping there would be a Motorstorm World Tour or something like that for PS4, and then when the original studio instead made that multiplayer team whatever thing called OnRush which was another spectacular failure ... such a shame we will never see another racing game like this. So desperate for another all-out off-road arcade racing game like Pacific Rift.
Ah motorstorm world tour would be perfect, a little bit of every environment with the same gameplay & physics just more updated would be the best offroader ever
I rememeber playing the demo of motorstorm back in day at best buy and it blew me away. It was such an amazing experience playing this game and i loved every second of it. I really miss motorstorm :(
havok physics were just so damn cool in any game.
Motorstorm was the first game I ever played on ps3 and seeing it in 60 frames on my friends dads ps3 since the system cost 600 back then was crazy. I bought the pacific game and absolutely loved the tropical environment with rain and fire effects. I played the demo for the apocalypse game and loved it as well but it’s a shame they never made another one.
This is the only series i want a remaster of, even if its only pacific rift.
One of the first victims of the "GaaS-efication" of the gaming industry. Driveclub and Evolution Studios, you will be sorely missed.
It’s a damn shame Sony gutted and closed Evolution and Studio Liverpool. I really would love to see a new wip3out and a new motorstorm
This is the content I need!
Pacific Rift is a masterpiece, and running it on RCPS3 with enhancements now really shows how good the design still is today
I loved Apocalypse. Its was just the amount of crazyness that felt perfect for the series. Shame we never got PS4/PS5 versions.
This is so weird. I swear like two weeks ago I was thinking of this game but couldn’t remember the name! I loved this!!!
The original Motorstorm will always be a memorable milestone in gaming for me. Being a fan of all kinds of racing games, Motorstorm was the first game where I finally got to test out my skills against other players online. I played the absolute hell out of it. Would love to see a remaster of the original.
Apocalypse is soooo underrated. Love Pacific Rift too. I want a remaster trilogy on PS5 so badly. Some of my favorite games of all time, they really don't make games like these anymore.
Motorstorm online is back. You all should play it again if you’re missed to play them
I think I’m gonna start making videos on apocalypse again. I took a break and I’ve been doing the old grid games
The only channel I've ever paid a sub for on TH-cam. Y'all please keep making great content. I'm a fan I'm a fan I'm a...
We are lucky we are getting these high quality documentaries for free! Thanks GVMERS! Definetly deserves all the support.
omg thank youuuuu for making this video... Motorstorm that came with the original PS3 was amazing, my dad and I only wished it was split screen! Online was crazy and getting that 'God' Rating was super satisfying
Cannot believe we are already at a point where there is a video about rise and fall of motor storm, because it feels like yesterday when all friends were talking about how popular Moto was
Super good video in general but damn that intro cg clip with the plates and the name of the game imprinted on the mud goes super hard. Kudos to the vizdev team!
Awesome documentary! 👍 Missing the series still to this day. This game teached me to love arcade racing instead of sim racing. Had a fantastic soundtrack on MS1 and one of the most competitive online racing. Everything about felt so raw but in a good way. Even then it was pretty refined in its car handling and had quite some easter eggs in its paint jobs and car referencing of real world cars.
The 'camper' dropping of the cliff at the end was my go to car for pacific rift. I always remember that car first as it was so weighty on its rear axle. So bonkers to drive such cars, and having numetal on the speakers. Loved it. Loved it. Loved it.
This channel is so underrated, I actually don't know how you guys don't have over 1 mil subs. I've been watching for years and I love the videos you make. Whoever the narrator is they have such a good voice for it and I hope they get into voice acting or something. Keep making videos guys
Thank you!
This was definitely one of my favorite racing games, such a shame evolution studies is gone 😢
Big red rocket of love!
Motorstorm was definitely a big favorite of mine. I remembered playing the first one at a restaurant where the kids area had PlayStations to try out. The most I’ve played was on Arctic Edge the PSP version with the wonderful customization options. I missed this series.
My favorite arcade racing franchise!
One of the games I had for my launch PS3. Absolutely banging soundtrack and a real shame what's happened to a great series.
You guys have the absolute highest quality videos
One of the most underrated series that almost nobody played! I love all three games of this Arcade Racer, too bad Sony is on the Live Service Business because a well done remastered collection would be awesome!
That Motorstorm demo was so awesome! I never played the series but seeing a major jump in graphics, physics and sound was what the PS3 desperately needed at the time.
An excellent profile on a absolute fantastic favorite on the PS3, I would get a PS3 just to play this series, it's so great!
"MotorStorm Pacific Rift" is my favorite of the 3 games, incredible physics, vehicle views & massive air!
The first video game I remembered playing. God I love this franchise, the vehicles the music. I would pay top dollar to have it ported to PC
Motorstorm was ahead of it's time in terms of terrain physics.
happy to see Onrush mentioned. Super underrated game!
Agreed
A shame it didn’t get any more gamemodes. It would have really benefitted with a racing mode since vehicles could all keep up with each other and it already had the system in place to allow natural catchup (such as no fodder spawning at the front). It could have involved a team points system based on individual position plus strategy to get your team across the line first.
Instead they pulled the plug and axed the team
I still play the custom game every now and then
I remember this game had the best graphics out of the early ps3 games, i played it a lot
God I miss this series why cant we get a HD remaster for the trilogy in current day?
This game was a blast played it in stores for months before having saved enough money to finally buying it for my ps3 i was like 16 good old times
Motorstorm was such a great game, it had that 90's soul and 2010's physics and graphics.
Thinking of 90's games like Fatal Racing/Whiplash, Demolition Racer, Destruction Derby Raw and Stunts.
been watching your videos for a while now, first videos i watched were i think the C&C documentary, or the R6 Patriots one. Both an absolute tragedy that happened to those projects. watching the documentaries for those games though was thoroughly satisfying. since then i've been keeping an eye out for new videos and was never disappointed if ever.
my hope, is that some day you get to make a video on a prior project that is making a successful comeback. like so many brands i miss these days.
Great video yet again like always keep up the awsome work! This channel is gaming history to a lot of people a lot of nostelgia & emotions come to play i hope you all will be able to continue! If times are hard just tell the community like before & many will be there to support & donate to keep the channel up! I would suggest a fund raiser once a year could help you all have a family eveything that costs money just like evryone else you have all our support & thanks keep it up🤗👍👊💪
I discovered this series recently and fell in love with it. I purchased all 4 games immediately. It's now one of my favourite racers along with burnout.
I worked at Gamestop as of as an entry-level employee back in 2006 and 2008 and this the demo was amazing for this game. I think it was nirvana that was playing on the demo, but it made me want to pick up the game and me a lot of people by the game also, I can’t believe the franchise is 20 years old. I miss this series. It reminds me of simpler times please do the rise and fall Ridge racer next.❤
One of my all time favorite series, wish it could have continued into the present... and Driveclub was amazing once it got all sorted out, best rain effects to this day.
i stumbled unto onrush sometime ago and i enjoyed that so much. didn't know that game had so much history behind it :'(
Great video good to have you back!
One of the best games ever made, when I was getting tired of my PS2 (Due to owning an Xbox360) this is the game that reignited my passion for it for MONTHS.
There's a series based on "Motor storm".
Really nicely done .
Miss this series like you would not believe. OnRush and Dirt 5 were good games, but didn't fill the void it left.
Hi, GVMERS!
Sup guys !
I still miss these games. Went and re-bought Pacific Rift a couple of years ago and it’s held up remarkably well. I still play from time to time. It’s the perfect racer for me. I know we’ll never see it but a current gen version would be incredible.
Thank you for giving this, great franchise another chance for more exposer!
I bought the ps3 games recently & man it’s so much Fun!
Totally slept on Motorstorm back in the '00s.
I started building up a solid PS3 library about 5 years ago and had fallen absolutely in love with the series.
I am currently working on the idea of putting motorstorm maps into the BeamNg game. i have currently been able to make a portion of gold rush from motorstorm psp playable.
my dream is to convert everey Pasific Rift mapos. but it takes a long times. Motorstorm is a underated game, and i really wish they could remake them all into pc
I wish they remaster this or remake or something. I freaking miss chaotic racers like this and Burnout series omg pleeeaaassseeee I'd play these types of games with my little bro until dawn back then, Motorstorm on the PSP and everything, all of it.
I usually don’t get into racing games much, but I did really love this series
I wish I was a little bit earlier to witness the entire series flowed with me. I've only played MS:A but it was perfect enough to experience. Alas, it was too late for me to miss out on MS:PR which I later found even crazier than Apocalypse. It's intro officially blew my mind. Without any doubt, this franchise deserves to be exhibited in a video game museum if there's any around.
You guys need to do the rise and fall of Burnout, such a great racing series that has been locked away by EA. The last 3 games were some of the best arcade racers ever made!
The land braces itself...
It was such a sad end for this developer that made the game with passionate and then dissapeared caused by their console platform's agenda
As always your content is wonderful. Absolutely love the first Motorstorm and quite like Pacific Rift too. It's got a different vibe to the bonkers first one though. Soundtrack is just as bad ass. Only played a little of Apocalypse and didn't really get on with it, but it influenced another great and over the top game called Split Second. Never played Arctic Edge. Lovely tribute indeed. I'd absolutely love of Evolution studios made a return to Motorstorm and ticked all the right boxes. Doing a Motorstorm game on PS5 would likely look exactly as awesome as the 2005/6 CGI release trailer, if not even better 😃😄
Loved motor storm such a great ps3 launch title
Motor Storm, not being on the 360, was the reason why I picked up a PS3. It was a fantastic racer.
I was waiting for this for years
I still love and often play the first two MotorStorm games. I own apocalypse but it just never felt like a true MotorStorm game to me. I play it but don't care for it all that much.