
Here are my picks; let me know if you can think of anything else that I may like and that I should add to the list based on what you see here
Alan Wake 360
Alone in the Dark PS3
Darksiders: Wrath of War PS3
Data-Fly PS3
Dead Island 360
Dead Space PS3
Fable 2 360
Final Fantasy XIII PS3
Fracture PS3
Fumito Ueda (Shadow of the Colossus, ICO) reveals plans for his next project to appear on Sony's next-gen console. PS3
Gears of War 2 360
God of War III PS3
Heavy Rain (working title) PS3
Infamous PS3
Infinite Undiscovery 360
KillZone 2 PS3
The Last Remnant 360
Left 4 Dead 360
Mass Effect 2 (working title) 360
Motorstorm 2 PS3
MGS4 PS3
Ni-Oh PS3
Prototype PS3
Resident Evil 5 PS3
Resistance Fall of Man 2 PS3
Seikan PS3
Shin Megami Tensei (working title) PS3
Silent Hill V PS3
Siren: New Translation PS3
Star Ocean: The Last Hope 360
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed PS3
Tales of Vesperia 360
Too Human 360
Wet PS3
White Knight Story PS3
Lots of JRPGs comming to 360 ![]()
Overall great game one of the best in the series IMO. I'm having freezes mainly online and experiencing the "stuck on loading screen" occasionally. To fix the loading screen issue I can disconnect from PSN but then I can't get online. The few times I was online it was awesome. I like quick deathmatches especially. Online is where I'm having most of my problems as far as crashes (not the car kind) so for now I'm going to stay offline until a patch is hopfully available. Sorry Mars188, Kreftain, and everyone else but it disrupts the game and is lame to constantly have to shut down my system during a game.
Its hit or miss whether I get stuck on the loading screen if I dont disconnect but most of the time I just don't bother disconnecting and once I'm in I don't have any more problems.
Anyway, GTA campaign is good fun. Great graphics and the first time I flew through the car windshield was glorious. In the past I was never that into GTA series; it was fun and all but It just never clicked. I think R* finally perfected the game with GTAIV. So, those are my thoughts. This has been a no frills report brought to you by Sprunk.
*EDIT May 7, 2008 1:21 pm PT:
Ask and ye shall receive looks like R* read my mind and released the patch lol
BluRay has won the high definition format war and Sony's PS3 has gained some much needed momentum according to NPD's February North American hardware and software sales figures* The full charts are as follows:
Nintendo DS - 587.6K (from 251K)
Wii - 432K (from 274K)
PlayStation 2 - 351.8K (
PS2 out sells both 360 and PS3)
PlayStation 3 - 280.8K (from 269K)
Xbox 360 - 254.6K (from 230K)
PSP - 243.1K (from 230K)
* Source Gamasutra
It seems Sony's decision to integrate the BD drive, whilst risky, may finally be paying off for the company and with the variable price points from multiple SKUs; the PS3 is a lot more reasonably priced after all. It's really been a game of quality over quantity for Sony. Granted, Sony's not out of the woods yet with its PS3 and given that supply constraints for the 360 will ease I expect a close race for March and April. Nonetheless I don't foresee a clear winner between the PS3 and 360 for 2008. While there are a few awesome exclusives for the PS3 and an acceptable amount of multiplatform titles, Sony will need to net more exclusives to really make a significant impact in the US market against the 360.
With BluRay a clear winner in the high definition format war and seemingly acting as a catalyst for the February sales boost for the PS3. Sony is off to a good start this year. I've seen first hand the importance of having an integrated high capacity disc player on a console when I opened the package for Lost Odyssey, exclusive for the Xbox 360, and I see not one but four discs crammed within and disc # 1 was just swimming around the top waiting to fly out at me when I carelessly opened the case. It really hit home that I will not have to deal with this when MGS4 or Final Fantasy XIII are released on the PS3.
Personal preferences aside high capacity and HiDef formats will not go away. The fact that Microsoft didn't bother to integrate their HD-DVD player into the Xbox 360 and instead went with a peripheral that did nothing more than play movies says a lot of things to me. Aside from confusing the market it is instrumental in a strategy that, I believe, may facilitate Microsoft saving the consumer from themselves with digital downloading or streaming. I'm not opposed to this idea but I am curious as to how this will look. Will it be anything like what is going on XBL now? If so I'll pass, this might work for games with a big enough HDD but movies forget it. Limited selection, 720p is the highest resolution, and you have to pay every time you want to watch. For me to even consider this a viable option my game console better come equipped with at least a terabyte HDD so I can DL and save my games and movies. Also, would this actually kill BluRay? Are we even going to have the option to be a society that has discs meticulously stored on shelves to enjoy at our convenience packed with extras, booklets etc..?
At any rate, I'm a collector, I guess. I like my junk; hell, I still buy music on vinyl along with legal downloading CDs, DVDs, Games, books... well you get the picture. I like BluRay but I hope it lasts.



