We bought a Playstation 3
March 17, 2007 – 7:41 amDuring an impromptu trip to Target on Sunday night to pick up some movies, Michele and I exercised our complete lack of impulse control and bought a Playstation 3. We bought the more expensive one with a 60GB hard drive, built in memory card reader and 802.11 b/g Wi-Fi.
We have four full games so far in addition to the slew of demos available on the Playstation Store:
- Resistance: Fall of Man
- Motor Storm
- Virtua Fighter 5
- Untold Legends: Dark Kingdom
I found Resistance hard to play with the PS3’s controller, but I’ve read online that it’s playable with a USB keyboard and mouse. I’ll make an edit here once I’ve tried it. I haven’t given much time to Virtua Fighter 5 yet, since that’s more of a multiplayer thing and nobody’s been around to challenge. I did run through the practice mode for a few minutes and I found some of the moves to be impossible to pull off. Dark Kingdom was Michele’s pick. It’s a hack and slash Gauntlet type of game from SOE, the makers of EverQuest, so she’s enjoying that one.
Motor Storm is by far the best game out for the PS3 right now. The graphics are nothing short of amazing and the game is just plain fun, although the soundtrack could use a little help. One cool trick I noticed is that as you race around the tracks, lap after lap, the ruts left in the sand and mud by each racer don’t disappear. It’s a nice touch.
Last night Michele and I played the demo of Full Auto 2: Battlelines. That game is fun. Cars and trucks with your choice of weapons attached. You can play through a career mode and actually race other cars, or do what we did and play the arena mode and just blow up your opponent’s cars up with no goal other than having the most kills. It’s good stuff.
Michele has also been enjoying the Sudoku game that is available for download from the Playstation Store. It reminds me of the situation with Geometry Wars on the Xbox 360: Here you have this complicated machine that cost several hundred dollars and what do you do with it? You play the hell out of the simplest game ever devised.
On a side note, with my new T-Mobile MDA phone and the Playstation 3, our wireless router is finally getting some actual use. Getting the PS3 connected to the wireless network was super easy too, in case anyone has been wondering about that. Our network here is locked down with WPA. The PS3 found the network and synced right up in a matter of seconds.
