F1 PS3 racing

[BenG]

Originally Posted by b4rs

oh i really odnt know. most of my mates have a 360, they lal say ps3 is rabbish wouldnt they so....wat good shootign games ae there on ps3?

no worries mate.

Funnily enough, my cousins ha a 360, he's the PS3 is rubbish, only because he couldn't wait to buy a PS3

[millzy]

dude southwell had a 360 and I have the noraml xbox, and well his over prices 360 was a load of puppy cash and no better than my bothers ps2

id get the ps3, played the motorstrom and wasnt impressed, Rage racer is lush love the drifting.


im in the wait untill the price drops boat

[BenG]

is it better than a PS2 though?

[b4rs]

lol of course, just read this review on play.com, now this sells it to me, sony should giv this guy a job!!!
This console is fantastic!
I was sceptical when it came out. £500+ for a gaming console when the 360 was at least 200 quid cheaper! What could it offer?!
A lot it turns out! I loved my PS2 but since I bought a HD TV last October I was craving HD gaming. I had nearly bought an XBox several times but wanted to wait for the PS3 to see if it was worth it. Even after the launch I wasn't so sure until I went round a mate's house who had just got a new PS3 (he already had an Xbox360 so I had the direct comparison!)
I bought one the next day! Why?
- REALLY slick user experience (way better than XBox)
- free online gaming membership (MS costs £40 per yr)
- free download of games, demos, videos, etc. and they can be 'background downloaded' so you just select what you want and carry on playing your games while the download runs silently in the background (a little message tells you when the download(s) are complete)
- MotorStorm and Fall Of Man graphics are amazing and game-play is totally addictive. Online its great fun too!
- 60GB HDD and its a media-player so you can use it for playing videos, music and viewing pics.
- web browser, for if you are too lazy to go upstairs on the PC!
- blue-tooth: so you should be able to use your mobile phone headset with it (my Nokia headset works) if you don't want to shell out for a Sony one!
- Blu-Ray drive (HD video for those that don't know)
- SixAxis controller is motion sensitive (Wii style!)
- Red Kawa have produced free media server software so you can use it as a media extender just like the Xbox, but it'll work with normal Windows XP (MCE not required) on your PC and there's a Linux version too!
- 'Other OS' installation: you can install another operating system and use it as a fully fledged PC! I've done this. Really easy to install (I used Yellow Dog Linux), took about an hour and came bundled with 'Open Office' and loads of other apps. Also makes the media player experience potentially limitless (as you can use whatever media player software you want and download the codecs required for your AV files!)
I reckon anyone who has posted negative reviews compared to the Xbox haven't actually tried it and are just anti-PS3 or are Xbox die-hards! Yes, the Xbox has a more established games selection, but MotorStorm and Fall Of Man are fantastic (the latter is definitely a match for Gears Of War in my opinion!) and its only a matter of time until the PS3 games collection catches up!
If you already have an XBox then its probably worth waiting until the selection of games matures a bit or the price drops a bit more, but if you are thinking of buying either one or the other then the PS3 wins hands down - if you buy an Xbox you'll be regretting it later on!
More incentive? When you join the PS3 network (online), if you are one of the first 495,000 to do so you get Casino Royale Blu-Ray for free from Sony as a thankyou!


also check the url its from theres alot of convincing reviews.http://www.play.com/Games/PlayStatio...ctReviews.html

[Lee]

I wasn`t overly impressed with the 360 when i got it when it first came out, but then i got the 42" HD plasma and WOW it is awesome!!!

I haven`t played on the PS3 and i dont want too because i dont want to regret buying the 360

[RLGfx]

360 all the way...

Rainbow 6 vegas rules... and Forza motorsport 2 is coming very very soon... as is colin mcrae dirt (not sure about this online though...), GTA4, Fable 2, Project Gotham 4, and wait for it......... wait for it........ GOLDEN AXE!!!!!!!

Lee you're right, 42" HD tv and surround sound makes it well worth it, and there's a host of good stuff coming this year... Halo 3 anyone?
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yes I'm a 360 fanboy...

[Kopite]

Halo 3 wins it for me!

...and the Golden Axe rumour has given me a semi

[Lee]

A semi eh??

Mourinho had a semi................

But lost it

[budgio]

Why not wait a while and pick up the XBOX 360 ELITE

[Southwell]

Ive heard a lot of rumours that Microsoft have stopped fixing certain hardware faults even when their under warrenty, due to too many overheating and failing!!

[Richard Lowe]

Originally Posted by Kopite

the Golden Axe rumour has given me a semi

I'm waiting for a while to get my PS3, to be honest I'm not interested until the next GT is around. Hopefully by then the online play will be fine and they'll have worked out all the hardware bugs, not to mention it'll be half the price.

Why doesn't everyone go PC gaming, far better...

Battlefield 2 PC online > 360+PS3

[b4rs]

all elite is, is a diff colur, like ps3 and its got 120gb hardrive and hd dvd palyer, nothing like bluraythats it.

[Richard Lowe]

It's got HDMI aswell.

When the Elite production run is over MS are going to sell the exact same machine but in white in the Premium bundle, the current Premium spec will become the Core spec.

[b4rs]

but i need to know now, whcih is better, overall id say ps3 but then i cchanged to xbox, then read another review ad went for ps3 and then otday read yet another review and it said xbox. is ps3's service and online feature really poor?

[b4rs]

is it true that ps3's bluray can be ruined after 3 years of watching movies?

[Richard Lowe]

You should take reviews of stuff like consoles with a pinch of salt, the only way to tell it to get your hands on each and make up your own mind.

If I get either it will be a PS3, purely for Gran Turismo, if the GT series were available on the PC I wouldn't have a PS2. RTS and FPS games just don't work with a joypad IMO, and most driving games that are released these days have stupid arcade physics. Now the GT games' physics are hardly Grand Prix Legends but they just feel right to play. So long as they fix the drift angle issues with the physics engine in the next GT I'm happy

[Southwell]

Originally Posted by Richard Lowe

If I get either it will be a PS3, purely for Gran Turismo,

Good boy!!

[Southwell]

Originally Posted by b4rs

but i need to know now, whcih is better, overall id say ps3 but then i cchanged to xbox, then read another review ad went for ps3 and then otday read yet another review and it said xbox. is ps3's service and online feature really poor?

Nah, i think it's fine, i get 200k a sec downloads on a 2mb line. O how i miss 10mb at my old house!

[telboy]

my bro had 2 xbox's, and they both went pop! so he got his dosh back and he's getting a ps3.

I've gotta wait til the price drops.

[matdodd]

PS3 all the way for me!