http://www.mcvuk.com/news/30863/PS3-set-for-a-software-avalanche

You have to read it to appreciate the level of delusional confidence that Sony currently seems to be showing.

It’s console is WAY behnd Nintendo’s in the States, with recent NPD figures putting the latter as selling three times the amount, at least.

While the DualShock3 is no where to be seen on these shores.

Pathetic.

possible spoiler below!!!!!

I have been playing for 7 hours and there haven’t been any long cut scenes, the longest so far is about 10 minutes which was right at the end of Act one and the cut scene was interactive where you could move around and collect supplies while it was going in.

1. Sorry, yes, I meant that I am a fan of shooter games, primarily; first-person, but I do have many third-person shooter games across many different platforms. But thanks for confirming you have both options available.

2. No criticism of you, sir, but did you read back what you typed there? It just sounds way too convoluted. If I want something with action but a ridiculous, far-fetched plot that I have to concentrate on all the way through I’ll watch a movie by John Woo, J.J. Abrams, or the Wachowski brothers. If I want a bit of mindless gaming violence to relax & have fun I’ll play something I don’t have to sit through umpteen cut-scenes for.

It sounds like my viewpoint is in the minority though (based on the few individuals who have mentioned a similar disinterest in this title here at ThreeSpeech.com).

£40 is a lot to spend on something that I may hate, or it may be the best £40 I’ve ever spent.

But £40 is not a trivial amount to spend in a month of other such great classics like…

Kung Fu Panda

!

(I would like to think “The Incredible Hulk” is also going to be great fun, but I suspect not)

BFN,

fp.

1. its NOT a FPS, its a third person stelth game which happens to let you play from the FPS if you want to.
2. They can see though walls because every solider has nano machines which create a wireless network which controls how every people on the battle field acts from there emotions to the information they access. All the armys that are fighting each other are contorlled by one person and he is just doing it so… well better play the game to find out.

What distinguishes “Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots” from, say, “Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare”?

One of the “…Patriots” videos I watched was showing a mortar pipe bomb launcher. To me it looked like more attention was paid to how many dust particles were on-screen rather than the indication of trajectory of where the bomb would land.

Also, the angle, direction, and position at which the character was facing there would be no way he could see over a wall & accurately locate the targets.

Stealth is one thing, but Extrasensory perception
is something else.

Seriously, if you can convince me to try this game I would be very willing to do so, but I do not see the attraction (even as an avid player of first person shooter titles).

BFN,

fp.

Yup, I put an order in for the HMV exclusive “Robert Ludlum’s The Bourne Conspiracy” at the end of May & pre-ordered (Amazon exclusive?) “Battlefield: Bad Company (Gold Edition)” last Friday.

I’m not planning on buying the Japanese Old Age Pensioner title either as I saw some game-play videos this week & also couldn’t see anything to get remotely excited about. I don’t think I would even bother if it was half the price by Christmas. It just looked like any other generic shooter. And what was with all the on-screen icons showing you how to get up & lean against walls, and stuff? Perhaps said lead character has ’senior moments’ & needs reminders from time to time what to do.

Still, it means some other network-play servers will be a little less bandwidth-congested this weekend.

BFN,

fp.

picked up a copy of Skate for £20 today anyways. should keep me busy.

have pre-ordered Bad Company (gold edition) too. that looks like it could be a killer battlefield game, not taking itself to seriously *coff*CoD4*coff* either, which is right up my street.

some other game out today too i hear, Mental Grey Snake or something.. dunno, you may have read something about it somewhere… PSM3 magazine did a big review on it this month, sounded like a bit of a let down from what they wrote. and after seeing a load of gameplay on Playr over the weekend i can’t see what the fuss is about.