Its official, the next Motorstorm has been announced. Leaked earlier this week, showing off the game that takes place in what looked like a destroyed San Francisco, and as it turned out, was real. Check out teh full details of the game after the jump!

The soundtrack sums it up perfectly; the immortal bassline from Lalo Schifrin's Bullitt theme thumps along, evoking the urban cool of one of cinema's most stylish car chases before it's ripped apart by a violent break-beat. On-screen herds of vehicles race through a city that's eating itself, whole office blocks tumbling and gun-toting groups on foot creating a scene of perfect chaos. It's an old standard given a fresh twist, and that's the perfect way to describe developer Evolution's latest.

A series that's in a near-exclusive club in reaching its third instalment this generation, you can't blame the Liverpool studio for wanting to mix things up this time out. The first MotorStorm was a successful launch title, the sequel a respectable if unspectacular continuation that spawned an Arctic spin-off on PSP and PS2. And the third? Well, from a distance it's hard to identify this as a MotorStorm game at all, the screen brimming with explosions and flying concrete. Get close and personal and the series' DNA shines through, the races a familiar blend of multi-vehicle mayhem.

Here's the premise: the MotorStorm outfit, having done dust-bowls and jungles, has packed bags and shipped out, their destination an anonymous and fictional West Coast city that's in throes of a natural catastrophe – and what better place to kick-start another MotorStorm festival? Set over a three day period, MotorStorm Apocalypse's backdrop is rapidly disintegrating. On the first day it'll be all tower blocks and freeways, but come the festival's climax it'll be a mounting pile of rubble – and the final race will be a mad dash for the MotorStorm freight ship as the city consumes itself.

Sayyed via ps3.ign.com »