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Radioactive IT PlayStation Home Ho-Hum
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| by Mike Bantick | |
| Wednesday, 17 December 2008 | |
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Let’s run through the basics, firstly you will want design your avatar, choices are limited currently to a human male or female with a number of preset characters to select, or design your own, within a small range of design options. It is disappointing to see that physical design options are currently so limiting. Rather than using slider bar options, PH gives you set structure options Clothing options are a little more expansive, but overall it won’t take long to design your avatar and get into the game world proper. You start inside your multimillion virtual dollar apartment, with a beautiful, though non-animated seaside harbour view. Here you can move furniture around, while you wait for the other four beta locations to download in the background. So you have moved all the furniture you can move, and now you want to explore the outside world, first stop is the Plaza Square, the hub location, to get to the Bowling Alley, Shopping Mall and Home Theatre – more on these later. In the Square you can explore your social skills as other avatars first pop in as ghostly apparitions, and then as their textures load, appear as fully fledged virtual people. Time for some social intercourse. It quickly becomes apparent that a Bluetooth headset/microphone and or a keyboard are the order of the day when it comes to oration within PH. There are easy to get too stock answers and questions however, which help enormously, and then there is the option to just dance. And you will be dancing a lot, pop over to the Listen@home booth to vote on a musical choice, or some to the big screens to form a conga line of dancers. The extensive range of dances available, from Disco, through Robot, Running Man, Rock and more, help to pass the initial moments of your time in PH. Then it is time to wander past billboards and videos of Sony products to one of the other locations. |
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