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I forgot to post this, but back in like...December I think, I went to a friend's house who actually had a PS3 and tried it out. What to talk about, I don't remember as much as I did, y'know, when it was fresh in my memory.
The Sixaxis controller is a DualShock 2 replica, only they made the shoulder buttons more trigger-y, and L2 and R2 kind of lean inwards towards the controller when you press them, which is kind of weird at first. There's also a PS button in the middle which I assume turns the console on and off.
The analog sticks were kind of changed, too, but not that much. They have a more rubbery feel, a little better than PS2's analog sticks which weren't the best.
As for the system itself, he got the 60 gig, so it has chrome and bling all over. It looks better in real life than in pictures, but it's still George Foreman-grill-like in shape. There's a slot for PS2/PS1 stuff, but you have to buy something separate to transfer memory over which sucks the big one.
The GUI is obviously PSP-based, very similar in menus and everything. But, for the more important part, there were games. He got Resistance, Genji (I don't know why), and Marvel: Ultimate Alliance. We didn't try Genji but I played the other two.
Resistance is obviously the one PS3 game people would potentially call a system-seller, but in all honesty it's not that. It's a very solid game, though, and you could tell it was done well as a whole. The weapons are original (expected, coming from Insomniac), but other than that it's really just a polished FPS. Nothing we haven't seen before. A solid presentation, yeah, but not something you want to shell out $600 for.
It did have co-op, though, which was a nice addition. More games need co-op, and it's a shame they don't. The graphics and effects were nice, too, but weren't "wow" material, probably 'cause it wasn't on an HDTV. But that's just extra stuff. In the meat of the game, the gameplay was overall fun to play, no doubt, and I would play it again if I could, but it wasn't spectacular by any means.
Marvel: Ultimate Alliance was all right. Much better graphics than the X-Men Legends series, but that's not saying a lot. Has co-op, too, which is always nice. I had fun with this, too, but it's a shame that over XML, XMLII and this no one decided to at least give different camera options. Not worth $60 but worth it at a lower bargain bin price, in my opinion.
Yeah, I guess that's all I wanted to say unless someone has questions.
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