PS3's Lair Playable Via Remote On PSP 84
Next Generation has confirmed with Sony a rumor working its way through fan boards: Lair is playable via remote on the PSP. That is, you can load up the game on your PlayStation 3, and then actually play it on the PSP's small-but-beautiful screen. This is functionality that Sony has been hinting at since the PS3 was announced, but up until now remote play has been restricted to music and movies stored on the console. Kotaku notes in their writeup that you need to play through the tutorial first on the console proper if you want to do this. The PSP doesn't have the buttons the game uses to brake.
Re:Maybe this will make it playable (Score:3, Interesting)
I played the Motorstorm demo and hated it. (I'm not really into off-road racing so it is probably a good game for which i am not the target market).
F1 Championship Edition is a good game and lots of fun if you like Formula One. The big downside is that if you play career mode, it takes between 2 and 3 hours at a time to play it. You have to do practice, then qualifying, then race before you can save your progress. Because of that, I haven't gotten very far in career mode. Once i'm more familiar with the tracks, i'll probably skip practice and skip a lot of time in qualifying and then it'll take about an hour between save points, but right now i'm not good enough to skip the practice.
Fight Night Round 3 has the same problems it had when i played it on my friend's xbox 360 (the biggest problem being it's a buggy piece of crap). When it behaves, it's pretty fun. When it starts threatening to stop the fight if you dont defend yourself, while your opponent is pinned to the ropes eating punches and tells you that you need to fix your cut, but doesn't show a cut in the repair interface, it will make you want to throw the controller across the room.
Virtua Fighter 5 is fun if you like fighting games. I really like it and it is as good as previous versions were. (i used to play it in arcades...not so much on consoles, so i dont know how the previous ones were on consoles)
I haven't bought it yet, but i did play Warhawk a little bit at a friends house this weekend and it was pretty cool. I really liked flying the fighters. The ground combat sucked, but that has more to do with me hating console interfaces for first person shooter (or 3rd person shooter) type games.
For downloadable games, I liked Blast Factor and flow. They were both pretty good.
However, Super Stardust HD is fantastic and probably my favourite game on the console. I have a rivalry going with a friend of mine on it and it really makes for some good motivation to try and beat each others' high scores.
They also release demos of some of the games in the store so you can try them before you buy them.
Another thing i like about the store is that i can choose what i want to buy and when i check out i can put exactly the amount of my purchase in my "wallet" and pay for it. I really like not having to convert cash to points and not having my money tied up in their online system when i'm not actively trying to buy something.
Re:Amazing Game Just Got Better (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Maybe this will make it playable (Score:3, Interesting)
Yeah. I remember when we went from the single-joystick, four-button controllers to the scheme both Microsoft and Sony use, and Nintendo used on the Gamecube. Everybody complained about how complex it was.
I played Lair for the first time tonight, and after just a few minutes, I could do things with the combination motion-control and joystick/buttons that you couldn't dream of without the motion control. I can assure you, the control scheme is *not* awful.
My only complaint is, the control scheme is different for one-on-one fights, as opposed to the general melee fighting. Both control schemes are decent (though I prefer the melee controls). I found myself getting used to it after about an hour, though. A few more hours, and it'll be second nature to switch back and forth.
I really enjoyed it, and found the control scheme very nice. It's substantially more complex than Warhawk, but it's also way cooler.