First impressions....the PS3 is quite bulky (but so is the Xbox 360). It's got Blu-ray, HDMI out, HD capability, etc.
We played about half a dozen games. The first one is MotorStorm, is an off-road racing game. The great thing about this is that your car breaks apart and eaqch time it is completely different depending on how you crash. Crashing in this game seem to0 be a huge deal...but then again there is nothign much you can do with racing games so the crashes are definitly highlights. The game is also designed to take advantage of the high detail capabitlity of the new PS3 console.
Second game we played is called Lair. It's like Lord of the rings combined with action and flying games. The first stage is flying the dragon and it takes advantage of the 6-axis tilt controller [idea] that Sony stole off the Nintendo Wii controllers. But It is still good. Takes a bit of time to get use to since all previous generations rely on buttons and joysticks for control.
Lair graphics is quite good. When I was flying above the water I could stop looking at the water graphics quality. Gameplay-wise it's not bad. First, you fly around attacking other dragons. You can shoot fireballs at them or if you dare, target your dragon, zoom fly in, once you switch to action mode, you fight the dragon mid-air and leap onto the enemy dragon and kick out the enemy pilot. Very dramatic....lots of oohs and aahs..
Third game we played is probably not much worth writing about...It's called Genji, a third-person samurai type fighting/adventuire game. Hated it.
4th one...another one I personally do not like...F1 racing...Once you played one racing game, the rest is pretty much the same. But I must say the graphics is really good. If it is raining, you will see the rain drops on the screen screen which will later slide sideways when you speed up.....Just graphics details...nothing special.
The last one we played is very very good. Well I'm a bit biased because I prefer playing action games specially first person shooters.
Resistance: Fall of man is the last game we played and one we had most fun. Graphics is quite good - highly detailed. AI is also good with good adaptability. One moment you are hiding/crouching and getting ready to shoot at the enemy...next thing you know he is walking around to get you.
I managed to play about 4 checkpoints/scenes...enemies in the beginning range from you usual grunt type aliens to these Jurassic Park mini-raptors and scorpoions looking creatures coming at you.
We managed to get to a stage where we are required to drive a tank. That was sort of fun ... running over enemies but it wasn't much fun...seem to easy....well that's because we've set difficulty on easy...duh! I would have set it on normal setting but I wasn't alone. Resistance reminds me of Halo.
Overall it was a great experience. All the games played were still on development code and therefore buggy and some run on 720p resolution. But considering it was on development code and that the console is a prototype, the PS3 only crashed once and it wasn't during gameplay. We also never experienced any lag like we did on Xbox 360 Gears of War. It'd be interesting to see how PS3 performs at full capacity and full HD.
The controller is wireless (woohoo) but it seems to me it was something they forgot and tried to include as a catch up...to connect your wireless controller to the console, you have to plug it in using the USB cable. Unlike the Xbox 360 and Wii controllers where all you need to do is press a button on the controller and it will sync up to the console, the PS3 is not exactly wireless...I'd rather call it semi-wireless or pseudo-wireless.
I don't think the $1200 planned price tag is worth it...maybe when its cheaper...but I do love it...Sony, if you are reading this, please give The Kuya Club a free PS3 concole set with games. :)
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