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As one of 2000 broken PS2 owners, I thought I'd rave about the best console of the last millennium, let's not forget about this little beauty - my respects to the PlayStation.
Sony’s first venture into the world of gaming proved to be an incredible hit! The Playstation, although partly developed by Nintendo, is still holding it’s own in the modern day market soaking up an incredible 52% market share! The Playstation has been recently transformed into a small, but ultimately indifferent PSone, which sold very well over the Christmas period. This new device is basically a Playstation – about half the size or less, but is compatible with an LCD screen add-on, which costs £99.99 separately! This allows for portable gaming, so you can play more or less wherever you like as long as there is a plug socket!
I have been a great fan of the Playstation, and have around 100 games in my collection – a lot, I know, but I really do like games! My wife isn’t so impressed when I tell her about my latest addition, but my work chums usually come round to have a play-test on a game! There are around 700 games for the Playstation – maybe even more, and its good to see that developers and publishers are still backing it 100% even though the new PS2 has arrived.
There are around 6million PSX owners in the country, and I’m sure that most of them have been fairly pleased with their machine. It’s inexpensive, has an incredible backlog of superb games including nearly every EA sports title, loads of racing games – Gran Turismo 2 being my absolute favourite, as well as many other games in around 50 different genres!
Graphically the PSX is not the best around, but a few years back it was state of the art stuff. Nowadays, the N64 has better looking games, but it seems as though that is on its last legs, the Dreamcast and Playstation2 both have better looking games than the lot, although my PS2 experience wasn’t so great (see my review on it!!).
You can chip your console easily to play back up or ‘copied’ games, but I haven’t done this as I do not like ripping the publishers off – there is a very, very wide black market in copied Playstation games – this has lead to decreasing profits for many developers and publishers because a lot of people just buy the copy for a fiver instead of paying £30.
If you like adventure games then check out Crash Bandicoot. If you’re into horror games then you’ll find none better than the magnificent Resident Evil series – but I personally recommend Silent Hill above all others. There’s a t least 40 football games on the Playstation, with FIFA 2000 being the best so far, although ISS Pro is superb.
Everyone is catered for with the Playstation! I have seen the price tumble from £300 back in 1995, all the way to just £79.99 as it is today – excellent value, but try the 2nd hand market – you may be able to pick one up for £50 with a couple of games.
The PSX has served its purpose in my view. Great games like Tony Hawk’s have become classics on the console, but it seems as though the console may not be the publisher’s first choice now as they’re selling PS2 games for £44.99 now, and with the new Game Cube arriving soon, not to mention the XBox, we won’t be seeing many top games on the console released soon. The best has been and is still here, but we’ll all be buying the next best thing soon.
Overall, the Playstation offers very good value, and will be your best friend for a few years!
So far I have been more impressed by the Playstation than the PS2 – I give this console 10/10, shame about my personal experience of the PS2.
Jester
Sony’s first venture into the world of gaming proved to be an incredible hit! The Playstation, although partly developed by Nintendo, is still holding it’s own in the modern day market soaking up an incredible 52% market share! The Playstation has been recently transformed into a small, but ultimately indifferent PSone, which sold very well over the Christmas period. This new device is basically a Playstation – about half the size or less, but is compatible with an LCD screen add-on, which costs £99.99 separately! This allows for portable gaming, so you can play more or less wherever you like as long as there is a plug socket!
I have been a great fan of the Playstation, and have around 100 games in my collection – a lot, I know, but I really do like games! My wife isn’t so impressed when I tell her about my latest addition, but my work chums usually come round to have a play-test on a game! There are around 700 games for the Playstation – maybe even more, and its good to see that developers and publishers are still backing it 100% even though the new PS2 has arrived.
There are around 6million PSX owners in the country, and I’m sure that most of them have been fairly pleased with their machine. It’s inexpensive, has an incredible backlog of superb games including nearly every EA sports title, loads of racing games – Gran Turismo 2 being my absolute favourite, as well as many other games in around 50 different genres!
Graphically the PSX is not the best around, but a few years back it was state of the art stuff. Nowadays, the N64 has better looking games, but it seems as though that is on its last legs, the Dreamcast and Playstation2 both have better looking games than the lot, although my PS2 experience wasn’t so great (see my review on it!!).
You can chip your console easily to play back up or ‘copied’ games, but I haven’t done this as I do not like ripping the publishers off – there is a very, very wide black market in copied Playstation games – this has lead to decreasing profits for many developers and publishers because a lot of people just buy the copy for a fiver instead of paying £30.
If you like adventure games then check out Crash Bandicoot. If you’re into horror games then you’ll find none better than the magnificent Resident Evil series – but I personally recommend Silent Hill above all others. There’s a t least 40 football games on the Playstation, with FIFA 2000 being the best so far, although ISS Pro is superb.
Everyone is catered for with the Playstation! I have seen the price tumble from £300 back in 1995, all the way to just £79.99 as it is today – excellent value, but try the 2nd hand market – you may be able to pick one up for £50 with a couple of games.
The PSX has served its purpose in my view. Great games like Tony Hawk’s have become classics on the console, but it seems as though the console may not be the publisher’s first choice now as they’re selling PS2 games for £44.99 now, and with the new Game Cube arriving soon, not to mention the XBox, we won’t be seeing many top games on the console released soon. The best has been and is still here, but we’ll all be buying the next best thing soon.
Overall, the Playstation offers very good value, and will be your best friend for a few years!
So far I have been more impressed by the Playstation than the PS2 – I give this console 10/10, shame about my personal experience of the PS2.
Jester
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I agree.
Damn...this is just not happening today is it?
I'll be forced to post meaningful and intelligent things, don't let that happen..please
Damn...this is just not happening today is it?
I'll be forced to post meaningful and intelligent things, don't let that happen..please
Goatboy wrote:
> someone have a fight with me, go on.
Star Wars is a brilliant film.
> someone have a fight with me, go on.
Star Wars is a brilliant film.
If I am right, this will be my 5000th post ever on the forums!!
So I'm gonna out my latest review of Red Faction on here. Here goes:
You are Parker, lured to Mars by the Ultor Corporation’s promise of a better life. Many came to work for the massive mining company, not knowing what hell awaited them when they got there.
They were abused daily from the Ultor Guards, they had to timeshare they’re beds with about 8 other miners, and worst of all, a plague is sweeping through the barracks, killing off many miners. As the days went by, miners became more angry and frustrated, and the plague got worse and worse. Someone named Eos appeared to be trying to fight Ultor, by writing stuff on walls, and annoying the Corporation by not giving them any clues on who she was.
The mood was very tense. All it needed, was a spark.
One day, a guard and a miner had a small arguments in one of the mining tunnels. There was a scuffle, and then gunshots. Suddenly, all hell broke loose. The Red Faction had began the Revolution, led by Eos.
As Parker, you will have to travel though many different places in the Ultor Corporation, killing guards, accompanying people to Eos, finding out secrets about Ultor and perhaps killing a few rather-hard-to-beat Bosses on the way.
So, how does the gameplay fare? Well, if we quickly forget the extremely poor controls that are already set for us (but you can configure them, thank God,) then gameplay is another great thing about this game. The PS2’s Analog Controllers make it easy to move Parker, and you can change the sensitivity in the options mode. As well as using a primary and secondary function on literally all of the 15 weapons available, you can also jump to get onto boxes etc, and crouch if you want to go into stealth mode. Some parts of the game may look like they require stealth, but you don’t have to-stealth has always been somewhat hard in First-Person Shooters.
A very good addition to the gameplay is that you could even call this game a multi-genre. This is because there are 5 fully armed land and air vehicles to use in the game-including. These can be used to travel to other places faster, drill through walls, or when you’ve been invaded by guards you can use the powerful weapons they are enabled with.
There is a Training Mode, but we’ll ignore that as it’s rather easy (as in so easy that you’ll complete it in under 5 minutes the second time you do it,) and we’ll go straight to the most innovative part of Red Faction-Geo-Mod Technology.
Geo-Mod Technology enables you to destroy and alter the environment any where you want to! Sometimes pointless holes will be created, and you’ll be in a room full of craters (this is thanks to too much use of the Rocket Launcher,) but occasionally it comes in very useful. I got annoyed as I couldn’t find the way into this locked control station, and finally tried planting a Remote Charge on the wall outside the door. It exploded, leaving a nice big hole for me to go through, and hit a few switches inside. Lovely.
Lets go onto graphics. At first you may be disappointed-the faces seem to be rather poorly animated, and the textures are nothing special. But as you get further into the game, and you come across different types of walls, you will begin to realise how detailed and realistic the environment is, as well as the weapons. Reloading is always a beautiful thing to watch, unless you’re being attacked by many guards, of course.
Faces have always been hard to do, and although they’re not all that detailed, the eyes and mouth move very well.
Once you’ve finished the single player mode, or in fact, before you’ve finished the single player mode, there is a multi-player deathmatch mode to enjoy.
So overall, what do you get? Well, you get a great first person shooter, with an enticing plot, some great gameplay, Geo-Mod Technology, undetailed-but-still-pretty-good faces, great environments and an enjoyable multi-player mode.
What more could you want from a PS2 game?? Surely this an AAA Title, and Red Faction has finally shown what the PS2 can really do.
JOIN THE REVOLUTION-PLAY RED FACTION
Thanks for reading, Ant.
So I'm gonna out my latest review of Red Faction on here. Here goes:
You are Parker, lured to Mars by the Ultor Corporation’s promise of a better life. Many came to work for the massive mining company, not knowing what hell awaited them when they got there.
They were abused daily from the Ultor Guards, they had to timeshare they’re beds with about 8 other miners, and worst of all, a plague is sweeping through the barracks, killing off many miners. As the days went by, miners became more angry and frustrated, and the plague got worse and worse. Someone named Eos appeared to be trying to fight Ultor, by writing stuff on walls, and annoying the Corporation by not giving them any clues on who she was.
The mood was very tense. All it needed, was a spark.
One day, a guard and a miner had a small arguments in one of the mining tunnels. There was a scuffle, and then gunshots. Suddenly, all hell broke loose. The Red Faction had began the Revolution, led by Eos.
As Parker, you will have to travel though many different places in the Ultor Corporation, killing guards, accompanying people to Eos, finding out secrets about Ultor and perhaps killing a few rather-hard-to-beat Bosses on the way.
So, how does the gameplay fare? Well, if we quickly forget the extremely poor controls that are already set for us (but you can configure them, thank God,) then gameplay is another great thing about this game. The PS2’s Analog Controllers make it easy to move Parker, and you can change the sensitivity in the options mode. As well as using a primary and secondary function on literally all of the 15 weapons available, you can also jump to get onto boxes etc, and crouch if you want to go into stealth mode. Some parts of the game may look like they require stealth, but you don’t have to-stealth has always been somewhat hard in First-Person Shooters.
A very good addition to the gameplay is that you could even call this game a multi-genre. This is because there are 5 fully armed land and air vehicles to use in the game-including. These can be used to travel to other places faster, drill through walls, or when you’ve been invaded by guards you can use the powerful weapons they are enabled with.
There is a Training Mode, but we’ll ignore that as it’s rather easy (as in so easy that you’ll complete it in under 5 minutes the second time you do it,) and we’ll go straight to the most innovative part of Red Faction-Geo-Mod Technology.
Geo-Mod Technology enables you to destroy and alter the environment any where you want to! Sometimes pointless holes will be created, and you’ll be in a room full of craters (this is thanks to too much use of the Rocket Launcher,) but occasionally it comes in very useful. I got annoyed as I couldn’t find the way into this locked control station, and finally tried planting a Remote Charge on the wall outside the door. It exploded, leaving a nice big hole for me to go through, and hit a few switches inside. Lovely.
Lets go onto graphics. At first you may be disappointed-the faces seem to be rather poorly animated, and the textures are nothing special. But as you get further into the game, and you come across different types of walls, you will begin to realise how detailed and realistic the environment is, as well as the weapons. Reloading is always a beautiful thing to watch, unless you’re being attacked by many guards, of course.
Faces have always been hard to do, and although they’re not all that detailed, the eyes and mouth move very well.
Once you’ve finished the single player mode, or in fact, before you’ve finished the single player mode, there is a multi-player deathmatch mode to enjoy.
So overall, what do you get? Well, you get a great first person shooter, with an enticing plot, some great gameplay, Geo-Mod Technology, undetailed-but-still-pretty-good faces, great environments and an enjoyable multi-player mode.
What more could you want from a PS2 game?? Surely this an AAA Title, and Red Faction has finally shown what the PS2 can really do.
JOIN THE REVOLUTION-PLAY RED FACTION
Thanks for reading, Ant.
Eeeexcellent.
Thanks, we hadn't been fighting for over a week now, starting to feel odd.
Er...stop shouting about gameadays or something. Except you haven't...damn...er....someone have a fight with me, go on.
Thanks, we hadn't been fighting for over a week now, starting to feel odd.
Er...stop shouting about gameadays or something. Except you haven't...damn...er....someone have a fight with me, go on.
Not at all.
You people attempting posts of length would do well to read Dan, for his are long but interesting.
They look scary but are quite often a good read.
Now, I've been nice about your posts Dan, go mental for me.
Go on, just once...you know you want to.
>:)
You people attempting posts of length would do well to read Dan, for his are long but interesting.
They look scary but are quite often a good read.
Now, I've been nice about your posts Dan, go mental for me.
Go on, just once...you know you want to.
>:)
I think this thread should be renamed
"Why playstation attempts for gameaday"
Many, many posts of words.
Very, very dry and dusty.
"Why playstation attempts for gameaday"
Many, many posts of words.
Very, very dry and dusty.
Dan2K1 wrote:
M16 - well done on using many, many 'PS2' and
> 'PS3' in your reply.
Cheers dan.
:D
M16 - well done on using many, many 'PS2' and
> 'PS3' in your reply.
Cheers dan.
:D
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