Evolution Studios have recently released a good, solid update to their off-road arcade racer, MotorStorm: Pacific Rift, as the game’s director, Jed Ashforth, makes a bold statement, and then a promise:

“More than just a patch, there’s a load of new features in there that will make your time playing MS: PR that little bit sweeter.

“Game Update 2 is also on the way soon, which has some very cool new content in it, especially if you have a bit of a penchant for collecting cool stuff, or if you’re the type of person who enjoys PS3 Trophies and the like.”

Uh-oh. He said Trophies.

The next time you start the game online, you’ll be prompted to download the update, which entails the following:

• You can now back up your save data for later restoration to the User Account it was created under (on any PS3 system, so you shouldn’t ever need to lose your personal progress).

• A ‘MotorStorm Helmet’ icon is now displayed on-screen during critical data saves. This is in addition to the HDD Access Indicator, which currently flashes while the game makes a critical save.

• We’ve fixed an exploit that was recently found where pausing and unpausing during critical boosting would grant you an extra second or so of boost. Repeated over and over people have been able to shave seconds off the top leaderboard times. Seems like a lot of work for someone just to cheat at a leaderboard time, but it’s all fixed now. Anyone who has used this exploit please be warned - we’ll be clearing down your times off the leaderboards shortly.

• We’ve made the online rankings easier to understand, and made the whole Online experience even smoother and easier.

• You can be confident that Photos taken in Photo Mode will now look their best, because we’ve tuned the graphics up a notch in this mode.