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OK I'm speaking as a complete neutral here, I have played on both the PS2 and the DC.
To start with as soon as I started Tekken Tag I was so disappointed it was untrue. Tekken Tag looked like Tekken 3.2! I was so angry that the gameplay was just like Tekken Tag and it was not as 3D as Soul Calibre. Now the DC is not perfect, but at least it has a good solid 3D beat'em up in Soul Calibre. So so far DC is ahead of PS2 in the beat'em up department.
Next round sporting games. OK so the DC has appauling footy games, but Sydney 2000, Virtua Tennis and Sega Bass Fishing + others make up for it. So far on the PS2 I've played snowboarding and the only thing that springs to mind is Cool Boarders. It was exactly the same. Obviously the graphical tweaks made it look slightly better, but that was not enough to keep me playing. I've began reading about ISS Pro Evolution on the PS2 and it looks really good, but apparently it plays badly. To me it seems a case of Sony giving the PS2 much more graphical capability than the PS, but they have not concentrated on the gameplay.
Next round RPG. ONe word that should make anybody come over in a shiver. Shenmue. My cousin came down for a week and after I beat him at some games we put on Shenmue, that was it, our sleeping, eating, going out to the pub had gone, he was mesmorised by the sheer genius that is Shenmue. Now PS2 has Eternal Ring (or something like that, I read about it, but have not bought it). Now the many reviews I have read said this was possibly the worst RPG on any Sony machine. They said the storyline, gameplay and the whole game was a waste of time. The final verdict on the game was 2/5 and 26% (or something like this). Don't get me wrong I think the PS2 has far better graphics than the PS and I would not go back to the PS, but the games are just so...in a word.....rubbish. Roll on MGS2!
Next round the console. My DC is nestled nicely between my video player and my TV. The opening mechanism has enough room to open and the pads are great for games like Crazy Taxi and Dead Or Alive 2. The PS2 looks futuristic, but I can't help but feel it looks too futuristic, infact Sony have made it look so modern it looks tacky. The sideways opening is a nightmare, as my PS2 is placed by the side of my TV standing up. Now the one thing the DC does not have is the DVD player. Right? Wrong. Because the first day of playing on the PS2, I decided to watch a movie, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. I opened the tray placed the disc in and set it up ready to go.....then nothing. The DVD was not working properly. I heard this happened to other people too. You see now I can't help but wonder if Sony were in such a rush to get the PS2 out in the market that they did not actually put it through the paces and have sold thousands of "faulty" machines to us, the public. Anyway for now I'm using a DVD player, much better that way, because the thing actually works!
SO my verdict is PS2 is good for a laugh, is better graphically than the DC, but never really satisfies you enough to warrant the £300 price tag. The DC now reduced in price, although games are slow to come out to start with is definitely worth half themoney for a PS2 and with slightly worse graphics, it really does outplay the PS2. My final verdict on this is the PS2 is good, but the DC is better value for money.
Final point. I know alot of you guys will reply telling me I'm insane and don't know anything, but I am entitled to my own opinion and like it or not, this was it.
To start with as soon as I started Tekken Tag I was so disappointed it was untrue. Tekken Tag looked like Tekken 3.2! I was so angry that the gameplay was just like Tekken Tag and it was not as 3D as Soul Calibre. Now the DC is not perfect, but at least it has a good solid 3D beat'em up in Soul Calibre. So so far DC is ahead of PS2 in the beat'em up department.
Next round sporting games. OK so the DC has appauling footy games, but Sydney 2000, Virtua Tennis and Sega Bass Fishing + others make up for it. So far on the PS2 I've played snowboarding and the only thing that springs to mind is Cool Boarders. It was exactly the same. Obviously the graphical tweaks made it look slightly better, but that was not enough to keep me playing. I've began reading about ISS Pro Evolution on the PS2 and it looks really good, but apparently it plays badly. To me it seems a case of Sony giving the PS2 much more graphical capability than the PS, but they have not concentrated on the gameplay.
Next round RPG. ONe word that should make anybody come over in a shiver. Shenmue. My cousin came down for a week and after I beat him at some games we put on Shenmue, that was it, our sleeping, eating, going out to the pub had gone, he was mesmorised by the sheer genius that is Shenmue. Now PS2 has Eternal Ring (or something like that, I read about it, but have not bought it). Now the many reviews I have read said this was possibly the worst RPG on any Sony machine. They said the storyline, gameplay and the whole game was a waste of time. The final verdict on the game was 2/5 and 26% (or something like this). Don't get me wrong I think the PS2 has far better graphics than the PS and I would not go back to the PS, but the games are just so...in a word.....rubbish. Roll on MGS2!
Next round the console. My DC is nestled nicely between my video player and my TV. The opening mechanism has enough room to open and the pads are great for games like Crazy Taxi and Dead Or Alive 2. The PS2 looks futuristic, but I can't help but feel it looks too futuristic, infact Sony have made it look so modern it looks tacky. The sideways opening is a nightmare, as my PS2 is placed by the side of my TV standing up. Now the one thing the DC does not have is the DVD player. Right? Wrong. Because the first day of playing on the PS2, I decided to watch a movie, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. I opened the tray placed the disc in and set it up ready to go.....then nothing. The DVD was not working properly. I heard this happened to other people too. You see now I can't help but wonder if Sony were in such a rush to get the PS2 out in the market that they did not actually put it through the paces and have sold thousands of "faulty" machines to us, the public. Anyway for now I'm using a DVD player, much better that way, because the thing actually works!
SO my verdict is PS2 is good for a laugh, is better graphically than the DC, but never really satisfies you enough to warrant the £300 price tag. The DC now reduced in price, although games are slow to come out to start with is definitely worth half themoney for a PS2 and with slightly worse graphics, it really does outplay the PS2. My final verdict on this is the PS2 is good, but the DC is better value for money.
Final point. I know alot of you guys will reply telling me I'm insane and don't know anything, but I am entitled to my own opinion and like it or not, this was it.
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That looks right!
I looked at the other spellings and thought they were wrong, but I couldn't for the life of me think how it might mbe spelt.
Sole Kaliber: Guide Billy Conolly (Can't spell that either) around a desolate wasteland trying to find the one remaining bottle of non-alcoholic beer: The sole Kaliber....
I looked at the other spellings and thought they were wrong, but I couldn't for the life of me think how it might mbe spelt.
Sole Kaliber: Guide Billy Conolly (Can't spell that either) around a desolate wasteland trying to find the one remaining bottle of non-alcoholic beer: The sole Kaliber....
I have played the ps2 and thought it was great. i have also played the DC and thought it was ok. Basicaly i am rooting for the ps2 to win the console wars but truth be told i feel the newly entered company always wins. for example nintendo and sega have been fighting it out since the original game boy and game gear then sega released the saturn and sony release the playstation. Over all the psx won with something like 90 million consoles sold. This time the new company is microsoft with the X box (or whatever it is called after the law suit) so i believe the winner will be microsoft. I feel that sega were great but lost too much on the saturn to ever come back and the hype alone got the ps2 got 9 million consoles sold and because of that dreamcast is losing out. But if sega can get the DC going then good luck to 'em is what i say!
devo your spelling is great.
Soul Caibre 2 on PS2?
As if it was ever gonna be on anything else.
Sega are trying to run away from the DC, they cannot stop development of the current games, and so they'll try to make as much money as possible, but I don't like the way they play the market. The Saturn was not a good console and so it deserved to fail, and when it went down to £99.99 no-one wanted it, now that the DC is in the same price zone everyone seems to have woken up to the fact that the Dreamcast is a damn fine machine.
Anyway, Soul Calibre is a superb game, and a sequel would not be any better because Soul Calibre is perfection.
Soul Caibre 2 on PS2?
As if it was ever gonna be on anything else.
Sega are trying to run away from the DC, they cannot stop development of the current games, and so they'll try to make as much money as possible, but I don't like the way they play the market. The Saturn was not a good console and so it deserved to fail, and when it went down to £99.99 no-one wanted it, now that the DC is in the same price zone everyone seems to have woken up to the fact that the Dreamcast is a damn fine machine.
Anyway, Soul Calibre is a superb game, and a sequel would not be any better because Soul Calibre is perfection.
> I read this over the weekend, too. I bought the latest issues of 3
> mags: PSW, The Player, and P2.
Just to clear up any confusion - I meant that I'd read about Soul Caliber 2 coming to PS2 - not that I'd read scouse's post elsewhere.
> mags: PSW, The Player, and P2.
Just to clear up any confusion - I meant that I'd read about Soul Caliber 2 coming to PS2 - not that I'd read scouse's post elsewhere.
I am sure i have read this somewhere!
If its copied should an incident like SNIPER's occur!
If its copied should an incident like SNIPER's occur!
Where does it say that on this post?
Did I miss something?
I'm confused!
Did I miss something?
I'm confused!
I read this over the weekend, too. I bought the latest issues of 3 mags: PSW, The Player, and P2.
it was in at least one of them - but I can't remember which!
it was in at least one of them - but I can't remember which!
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