Well, all you 3 people that read my “G.E” blogs.. Sept. 28th is kindof a sad day. on the last Friday of this month, Sega will be completely pulling the plug on there final System ever… the Dreamcast, I can hear a couple fanboys go “Goodzorz!” or whatever the hell you say while manipulating yourselves to your Playstation2’s or whatever. While the failure rate of the ol’ Graybox is pretty non-existent.. they won’t last forever 
Evolution Studios, the creators of MotorStorm and, well, aside from that and WRC, not much else. But that’s OK, because they are good at it, there isn’t much need to go into other things right now, right?
MotorStorm RC, although still a racing game, is a large departure from anything they have done previously. While their other racing games have always been from traditional camera angles; Hood, in-car, rear, etc. This game is seen entirely from a isometric angle. Harking in games of old like Super Off-Road, and closer to the fantastic Rock and Roll Racing for the SNES.
So, with the change in play style, camera, and the shrinking of the MotorStorm franchise into a 5-inch screen (or, whatever size your TV is if you are playing on the PS3.) Does Evolution Studios pull it off?
We start our story how all good stories should start; with deception, greed, lies and the underlining sense that the person on the other end of a phone call has no clue what they are in for. Before I started college, I worked as Technical Support for the Xbox3601. Maybe you’ve heard of it? I was the guy you would call if you had issues with online connectivity, billing, hardware malfunction, etc. I would fix it as best I could over the phone. There was something else that I got on the phones sometimes, “Phishers”2. A Phisher, as defined by FreeDictionary.com, is someone who requests confidential information over the Internet under false pretenses in order to fraudulently obtain credit card numbers, passwords, or other personal data. These people who call in trying to get me to slip up and tell them the smallest amount of information they could use to later call back and get access to the account with. This is a story of one of those incidences my friends and I have labeled “The TRON story”.
In case some people don’t know, TRON3 is a cult classic from 1982 featuring some of the first instances of computer-generated imagery, also known as “CGI”4. The movie, about a computer programmer/hacker accidently gets himself stuck in a computer world called “The Grid” and he’s forced to play gladiator like games in order to continue living, was critically panned and a box office failure, but like other stinky cheeses, aged well and picked up a strong cult following that allowed it a sequel called Tron: Legacy set for release in late 2010, which is where this story officially begins.