Comments on: Time Crisis 4 Preview…

By: reakt

reakt — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:59:58 +0000

They now have a link to the MGO news to the right of this page (via the US blog). I guess there’s nothing more for them to add.

By: STJ

STJ — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:59:08 +0000

Imo, does TS even need to talk about the MGO Beta delay? It’s listed right under the Playstation BLog tab, anything TS posts would just be a simple copy-paste job from Playstation Blog, and it only takes you one click to get there. While I enjoy Playstation Blog, TS is excellent for covering upcoming products and games, I’ve never seen the information posted here about Buzz and Singstar posted on any American site. It’s nice to get a EU perspective (espically since I’m an Australian gamer).

Keep up the great work TS (but please include Australia in future giveaways, I’m a huge fan of Uncharted and was quiet dissapointed when I couldn’t enter the Press Kit giveaway. Although luckily I found one on eBay ^_^ )

By: rooee

rooee — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:13:49 +0000

@ reakt - This is true. But Sony is reliant on exclusives like MG to achieve dominance in the market - so isn’t it strange that one of Sony’s (semi)official forums should suddenly go so conspicuously silent when a debacle occurs?

Big love, TS, I’m not slating you - just seems a tad selective, that’s all.

By: Darius

Darius — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:59:51 +0000

I don’t understand why people complain about this game, it’s a great light gun game and I always enjoy playing it. Once you complete the arcade part of the game more mini games are opened which are quite fun to play. I really hope Namco or any other developer brings out more Point blank style games for the PS3 Store.

By: heaqdcasphil

heaqdcasphil — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:19:15 +0000

@12 rooee - I can kind of understand why the MGO delay hasn’t been covered here - it’s not an in-house title. However, I wonder when there will be a posting about the recent announcement that Home is delayed (again).

yes metal gear online has been put basck to the 24th and home has been put back and wont go live Until Autumn wich kinda sucks but o a good point PS3 Video Download Service This Summer and Call of Duty 4 PS3 Map Pack Release Date Moved to April 24th so we get it the same time as usa
now on to time crisis 4 i have played it and intend to get it but will wait till the price drops or come in seconhand as i feel 65 is a lot and think that there is more inportent games to get

By: Jimbo

Jimbo — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 11:38:04 +0000

Erm…where is my last post here? Why are posts being deleted? All I said was that we in Europe are having to pay nearly £30 more for this than people in America and I wondered if you’d find out why?

By: reakt

reakt — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:50:13 +0000

By: fanpages

fanpages — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:33:45 +0000

Thank you for your blog post, Steve.

Your Preview has inspired me to open the product I have had for almost a week (due to GAME’s policy of pre-orders arriving two days in advance of the official release date) & actually play it (rather than being lazy every evening & just starting-up “Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection”, “PixelJunk Monsters”, and/or “Pain” as they are pre-installed on my PS3’s hard drive).

I was in two minds after reading many other reviews following my pre-ordering of the latest Time Crisis title, even though I have been a fan of the series on all PlayStation platforms so far, but you have convinced me that this may be a better Arcade conversion than “Ghost Squad” (or even “The House Of The Dead 2″ & “…3″) on the Wii.

I was also sceptical about the First Person Shooter mode, but it sounds as if it could well be inserted at appropriate points in the plot of the “Complete Mission” to give the player a ‘breather’ between the high-action fast shootin’ rounds.

Thank you also for making me laugh out loud at your quote:
“..choose to play as either Giorgio or Evan, both VSSE agents, who are, frankly, every bit as effeminate-looking as they sound…”

The noise alerted my boss, who would probably die a few times over too if he found I was reading the ThreeSpeech blog rather than doing what I am paid for!

What with Steve Fox in “Tekken 5 (Dark Resurrection)” and Giorgio & Evan in “Time Crisis 4″, I am beginning to think (Bandai-)Namco have opened a closet full of such characters recently.

What next? Renaming “Bomberman”? [Think about it].

All we need now are standalone “GunCon 3″ controllers in the UK, or at least third party gun controllers compatible with the new sensors. Without them two-player offline games are going to be as kak as they ever were trying to centre a gun reticule using an analogue stick or D-Pad buttons.

PS. All:
Before “Duck Hunt” is quoted as the definite and/or first Light Gun experience, check out the Magnavox Odyssey “Shooting Gallery” home console title. This pre-dates the Nintendo offering by at least 12 years!

BFN,

fp.

By: rooee

rooee — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:51:18 +0000

The fact that I thought this had come out months ago says something. I’d rather play Duck Hunt.

@9 - Aside from the hyperbole, I agree with you - I’m surprised TS hasn’t mentioned the MGO debacle… even with a positive spin!

By: reakt

reakt — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:25:31 +0000

Sounds like the arcade element is the only part worth playing. That won’t keep me busy for long. I think I’d rather pop down the local megabowl and play it there for a pound a turn. Better that than shelling out £65 to prance about my lounge with a bright orange pistol in front of my sensors-clad TV.