Just over, actually. PREY was announced first 1995, and over the years has experienced many changes. Overall, the final product was released last week, and it is very polished.
Not a single drab texture the entire game. It looks “whole.” As in complete.
Whether or not it was rushed out the door isn’t important as it plays like a fun game with a coherent story.
Finally finished Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney.
The game is entirely too entertaining than any Lawyer Adventure game should be. A lot of that has to do with the script, which does a good job with character development and plot.
It’s not perfect as an adventure game. As I’ve come to expect with most adventure games, there are sometimes solutions that are sometimes not intuitive. Phoenix Wright did not have any “put banana in the salt shaker” moments, but sometimes you had to present the “correct” piece of evidence. Which can be difficult, considering at one point I had over twenty pieces of evidence to pore over during my final trial. This can be somewhat frustrating—even when you believe that another piece would lead to the same conclusion, the game will not allow you to progress until you’ve presented the one that it wants you to.
Overall, a fun title, you play from the viewpoint of Phoenix most of the time, interviewing witnesses, collecting evidence from crime scenes and cross examing witnesses in the court room. All that may sound not so intruiging, but the story and characters kept pulling me back to the DS.
Of course, that may have had something to do with me being a fan of Perry Mason when I was younger.
Hey, it’s the PS3 pricing announcement. There are two models of PS3, $499 and $599. Let’s look at the differences between the two, based on the press release.
The $500 version is missing more than just hard drive space. Additionally, here’s what you don’t get:
The WiFi thing is odd to me because implementing WiFi is pretty cheap. At $250, the PSP has WiFi. Hell, at $130 the DS Lite has WiFi. But I guess you could get a USB wireless adapter. Currently this is how the Xbox 360 handles WiFi. Not a big deal here.
No memory card reader, also not a big deal. In theory, you can plug in a USB reader to the PS3 and have it read your media. Unless, they do something to their hardware to make it proprietary. Which would be completely out of character for SONY. All I ask here is that you can use them to save your games. Is that too much?
The no HDMI is going to make some people angry when they try to play a next generation DVD but can’t, because only HDMI supports the crazy ass DRM that the movie houses demanded be on blu-ray. Of course, this is a non issue since most televisions right now don’t even have HDMI connections.
So, if you don’t care about any of these things, sure. I guess it’s worth half a grand. On the other hand, an extra hundred dollars gets you the additional functionality. I’m thinking that all of these bells and whistles are a tad excessive for something that is supposed to be playing games.
And to be honest, I haven’t seen anything that makes me want to spend half a grand on the system just yet. We’ll see how things shake down in the next couple of days of E3.
But I’m not holding my breath.
Now I have to wait for the MicroSoft and Nintendo announcements.
I’ve got an article up over at videolamer about whether or not you should buy the xbox 360. I go through a few questions you should ask yourself, but as I read it now, I realize I completely forgot to talk about whether or not you have broadband. Ah well. That’s my editor’s fault.
Another thing to consider is, are you ready to be an early adopter? This is the first revision of the hardware. There will be others. As they work out tiny little kinks like overheating, the next model number of the Xbox 360 should be sturdier, cooler, more stable and less likely to consume you in green fire.
Just a couple of common sense questions. Questions that people don’t seem to be asking themselves when they consider the PS3.
It’s about time someone designed a game with cooperative play from the ground up.
I’m just surprised that it’s EA.