The superbike and chopper both feel disappointingly flimsy, and the riders never seem to really be part of the action around them. New additions like the hot hatch and muscle car are executed with a certain amount of purpose, and both are satisfyingly sturdy in their cornering, but when it moves over to two wheels it's a little less convincing. MotorStorm's never been a game about precision handling and the fast and loose nature of its garage goes hand-in-hand with the nature of its racing, but there's still a lot to be desired in the way that they feel. With every effort evidently placed on making the decaying city the star, the vehicles themselves suffer a little. MotorStorm Apocalypse can be a victim of its own ambition, though. Even as bridges buckle and buildings collide the frame rate remains smooth, and the amount the game throws on to the screen is an incredible achievement in itself – and one that's amplified brilliantly for those fortunate enough to play the game in 3D, a feature that Evolution manages to wring more out of than much of its competition. The level of devastation is phenomenal and what's really impressive is how Evolution destroys an entire city without ever breaking a sweat. When things blow up in MotorStorm Apocalypse – which they'll do frequently – they do so in style and with an often jaw-dropping sense of scale. And while its cutscenes aren't exactly Oscar-winning material, at least the action itself is comparable to some of Hollywood's more explosive moments. There's a defined start, middle and end, with each story bookended with mad dashes to and from the MotorStorm carrier. Each rider's story takes place over three days and each offers different perspectives on the tale of a city that's eating itself in increasingly spectacular fashion. Its real achievement is in giving every race a sense of context. Evolution has wrangled an excellent sense of progression with its single-player Festival mode, though that doesn't come from the animated cutscenes that thread through each of the three different riders' stories - these are best watched with one hand over your eyes, the other furiously stabbing the start button in an attempt to skip through these atrocities. Racing games and storylines go together like slugs and salt, but Apocalypse has a crack at getting the two to play nice. With the city reduced to cascading concrete and tumbling skyscrapers the challenge now comes from the environment as much as it does your fellow racers.

A thinly disguised San Francisco hosts the MotorStorm tour and it's fast turning to rubble.

Play Apocalypse brings MotorStorm's world literally crashing to its feet, but in doing so it brings Evolution's formula to a natural conclusion.

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