I’ve played the PS3 and it’s INSANE!

Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Friday, 17 November 2006 08:28

Your IT - Entertainment

The first thing you notice when you turn on the PS3 is just how much the interface looks like the PSP. This is a fantastic way to get access to all of the PS3’s array of functions, and it certainly looks quite snazzy, too.

Games that we sampled include Lair, Ridge Racer 7, Resistance: Fall of Man and MotorStorm, an amazing car and motocycle racing/rallying game that took place over mountainous terrain.

The graphics on all the games we played looked absolutely incredible. Highly detailed, smoothly rendered and animated graphics, they looked good no matter whether they were in 720P resolution, or 1080P.

Both Resistance and MotorStorm were in 720P, while Lair, a game set in medieval times with flying dragons, and Ridge Racer 7, were displayed in 1080P.

The explosions and slo-mo car rolls as cars crashed in MotorStorm were fantastically detailed, with bits flying off the car as you crashed into the terrain until it exploded in a massive ball of flame.
Resistance looks like you’d expect a FPS (first person shooter) to look, except better. Ridge Racer’s graphics were super smooth, super high speed, super high-res and great fun to play.

Lair is a game that has to be played – you get to fly a dragon around while attacking castles and other people on the ground, along with (no doubt) other players in the air. It made full use of the PS3’s SIXAXIS motion detection, a system that’s somewhat similar to the Nintendo Wii’s motion sensing technology.

We also got to take a look at the PS3’s multimedia capabilities, watching some 1080P Blu-ray content, both in animated and video forms. As we’ve already seen with standalone Blu-ray players, the quality was nothing short of stunning, especially when hooked up to a screen such as the Sony Bravia HDTV’s they used. Sony wouldn’t use any other screen now would they? Haha. :-)

With such clear and high-def video from the PS3, why in the world would anyone buy a standalone player? The only possible reason is because they can’t buy a PS3 as they’ll all be sold out, and you have more than enough money to waste on a standalone player.

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