this is Ferill, reporting back from the playstation2 experience in London

Fez · #1 08-31-2003, 08:54 AM

hi guys, last night i got back from the PS2 experience in Earls Court, London. There were tons of games that i got to beta test for the PS2, i'm gonna add a huge list now, so just ask what a game was like, and i'll tell ya.

note: these games are all in beta testing (except for a few), what i tell you might not be in the finished game.

*i didnt play this game
# i recommend this game, brilliant.

*Alias
*Amplitude
Arc
*Arsenal CLUB FOOTBALL
Asterix and Oblix XXL
*Backyard wrestling: dont try this at home
*Batman: rise of the Sin Tzu
Beyblade
Beyond good & evil
*Breath of fire: Dragon quarter
Broken sword: The sleeping dragon
Buffy 2: Chaos bleeds
Castlevania
*Chaos legion
*club football - chelsea FC
#Colin McRea rally 4
Crash nitro cart
*Crouching tiger, hidden dragon
Dancing stage feaver
*Dark chronicle
Destruction Derby Arenas
Disneys Extreme Skate adventure
Dogs life
Dragonball z: budokai 2
everQuest online adventures
#Eyetoy: play
*FIFA football 2004
Finding Nemo
Formula one 2003
Freaky Flyers
*Freestyle Metal X
Ghosthunter
*Gladiator: sword of vengance
#Gran turismo 4
Gregory horror show
#Hardware online arena
Harry potter: quidditch world cup
Jak II: renegade
#James Bond 007: all or nothing
#Judge dread vs judge death
Karaoke revolution
Kya: dark lineage
Legacy of Kain: defiance
*Liverpool CLUB FOOTBALL
*Manchester United CLUB FOOTBALL
Maximo vs the army of zin
#Medal of honour: rising sun
#Megaman X7
Metal Arms
Mortal Kombat: deadly alliance
*Music 3000
My street
*NBA 2K4
*NBA jam
need for speed underground
*NFL 2K4
*NHL 2K4
*NHL hits pro
Pitfall harry
pop idol
prince of persia: the sands of time
*PES 3: pro evolution soccer
Ratchest and clank 2: locked and loaded
#Resident evil: outbreak
Rise to honour
*Roadkill
Robinhood: defender of the crown
*Secret weapons over Normandy
Simpsons: hit and run
*Sing
Siren
#SOCOM: US navy SEALs
Sonic Heros
*Sony DJ
Soulcalilbur 2
SSX 3
#Syphon Filter: the Omega strain
Tak and the power of juju
Teenage mutant ninja turtles
the hobbit
*the italian job: L.A. hiest
the lord of the rings: return of the king
*the suffering
Time crisis 3
True crime: streets of L.A.
Twisted metal: black online
*Unlimited Saga
*Urban Freestyle soccer
*Virtua fighter 4 evolution
Wallace and Gromit in project zoo
#Warhammer 40,000: firewarrior - the best game there
Whiplash
Worms 3D
*WRC 3: the official game of the FIA world
*Rally championship
*WWE smackdown! here comes the pain!
#XIII
#Zone of the enders 2

enjoy...

***Alcar*** · #2 08-31-2003, 09:16 AM

Oh my god, you have to me what playing Ratchest and Clank 2: Locked and Loaded and Jak II: Renegade was like! In detail please!

Alcar...

Forbidden Paradise · #3 08-31-2003, 12:09 PM

Medal Of Honour: Rising Sun - Please tell! Gameplay, missions, ease of use with controller?!?! What about the graphics? Lucky lucky lucky...

Al the Vykker · #4 08-31-2003, 02:35 PM

Syphon Filter omega strain details, I know about the customization for your character you play as. But gameplay details, etc, would be great!

Same with RE Outbreak if possible.

***Cloverfield*** · #5 08-31-2003, 02:45 PM

What, no FFX-2. Stupid Square Europe. *grumbles*

Anyway, it would have been really cool to go to something like that. Is it industry only like E3, or can anyone just turn up and play lots of games which aren't out yet?

Abe Babe...

Al the Vykker · #6 08-31-2003, 02:50 PM

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Is it industry only like E3?

Thats one thing that I dont like about E3 anymore. It used to be like normal public conventions, but now you have to have either been invited, won a contest, or other special vip reason.

Disgruntled Intern · #7 08-31-2003, 02:52 PM

Speaking of E3, I will now toot my own horn.

I write video game reviews for a fairly well known website. Because this is a tech/review site, we will be getting 'press' passes to next years E3.

Or so my 'boss' claims.

Feel free to worship me, regardless.

SeaRex · #8 08-31-2003, 03:36 PM

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Originally posted by ferill
Ratchest and clank 2: locked and loaded

Oh, is that what they're calling it in England? Here in Merka, it's "Ratchet and Clank 2: Going Commando." Charming.

And Dave gives me yet another reason to hate him...

Fez · #9 08-31-2003, 06:40 PM

wow people slow down.

Rachet and clank 2: locked and loaded - this was a very interesting game, not my kind exactally, but i did find it very fun. And there are lots of big guns.

Jak II: renagade - i liked this one, very good graphics (even for PS2) and you egt tons of cool weapons to "play" with. Very cool enemies, good design.

Medal of honour: rising sun - this was a very good game, it is cabable of on-line play, set in the jungles (vietnam i guess). The graphics were a bit bad, not very detatiled, but you do get a thompson with a drum of ammo and vertical grip (chicago style). It also got a co-op mode.

syphon filter: the omega strain - this game wasnt bad, just looked like a MGS rip off to me. But its fun, ya get a shotgun (not very stealthy) but it has very good graphics and over all a fun game.

Resident evil: outbreak - this was good, i didnt play much do to its popularity, but its very realistic. Your health effects the way you walk, when i was nearly dead, i had to pull myself along the floor! Good detail in the zombies.

No its not like E3, it was a public thing, anyone could go. But the tickets were quite expensive, an ya get a goodie bag full of cool stuff ; )

whElk · #10 08-31-2003, 06:49 PM

Woah you got to play XIII! So what was the mission like? Stealthy, or just loadsa blasting? Was it interactive, like could you break windows and stuff? Damn I wish I went...

Fez · #11 08-31-2003, 06:52 PM

XIII - this was one of the best games there, and forget stealthy, i got to run into a room filled with guards and kill em all with me M-16! (good reload animations) and the cell shading is superb. It is very realistic in how every thing is effected by what you do to it (bullets holes in walls, glass shatters ect ect) and you can go down in just a couple of bullets. Lots of blood though, which makes it look cheap.

Al the Vykker · #12 08-31-2003, 07:39 PM

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syphon filter: the omega strain - this game wasnt bad, just looked like a MGS rip off to me. But its fun, ya get a shotgun (not very stealthy) but it has very good graphics and over all a fun game.

Apparently you havent played the first three games then.

You can usually choose to be stealthy, or run and gun, whatever suits you. Syphon Filter definately was different from MGS though. The whole way you play the game is much different atleast IMO.

oddguy · #13 08-31-2003, 08:00 PM

Gran Turismo 4.......details my friend!

-oddguy

Fez · #14 08-31-2003, 08:12 PM

GT4 eh? it was just like a racing game, but better. Very sharp graphics, and cool level layouts. But the best bit was playing it while sitting in a seat that moved as you played! it was real!

oddguy · #15 08-31-2003, 08:14 PM

Oh baby! Would this moving seat be availible for purchase?

-oddguy

Fez · #16 08-31-2003, 08:24 PM

no way, it was a big simulator thing. If it was for sale it would be like £/$1,000

oddguy · #17 08-31-2003, 08:45 PM

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Originally posted by ferill
no way, it was a big simulator thing. If it was for sale it would be like £/$1,000

Ah @%$#! Well, you know that you are very lucky for getting this opportunity!

-oddguy

***Cloverfield*** · #18 08-31-2003, 10:49 PM

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Originally posted by Disgruntled Intern
Speaking of E3, I will now toot my own horn.

I write video game reviews for a fairly well known website. Because this is a tech/review site, we will be getting 'press' passes to next years E3.

Or so my 'boss' claims.

Feel free to worship me, regardless.

*worships DI* You know that I'll be asking for a report on OW3 if they have anything there next year. LOL

I could go, but I don't know when I'll be going back to the US. I can get a pass, but I've just never been able to use it. I blame stupid circumstances for that. I could have gone the last 2 years. *grumbles*

Abe Babe...

Facsimile · #19 09-01-2003, 03:16 AM

Okay ferill. Worms 3D. Details. Lot's of them.

Fez · #20 09-01-2003, 08:31 AM

worms 3D - i loved this game man!there are so many different views (3rd, 1st, side scroller, birds eye) in first person you can get great accuracy with rthe guns, my fav was the uzi. All the fun stuff is back, and it looks great in 3D. This is a must have!

Jacob · #21 09-01-2003, 10:27 AM

DI - How did you get a job doing that?

Ferill - In 'XIII' when you say about 'bullet holes' do you mean just holes in enviroments or when you look through them you can see the room on the otherside?

I.G.I claimed to have shtuffs like interactive enviro's but in the end you just got black holes on the surfaces of shtuffs...very shite

Fez · #22 09-01-2003, 03:43 PM

i meant just holes in the walls. But it is still a very realistic game, about 5 bullets took me down, damn...

oddguy · #23 09-01-2003, 05:40 PM

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Originally posted by ferill
i meant just holes in the walls. But it is still a very realistic game, about 5 bullets took me down, damn...

That does sound very realistic. A very big challenge I'm sure. Wow.....look how far we've come from Goldeneye.

-oddguy

Al the Vykker · #24 09-01-2003, 06:07 PM

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Originally posted by oddguy
That does sound very realistic. A very big challenge I'm sure. Wow.....look how far we've come from Goldeneye.

-oddguy

Hey Goldeneye was a great FPS, its a classic. Hell, I still have that and perfect dark in my closet.

It was more realistic when you turned down the health and either put one shot kills, or negative health handicaps.

oddguy · #25 09-01-2003, 06:27 PM

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Originally posted by Al the Vykker
Hey Goldeneye was a great FPS, its a classic. Hell, I still have that and perfect dark in my closet.

It was more realistic when you turned down the health and either put one shot kills, or negative health handicaps.

Whoa!

I'm not dissin' Goldeneye! I love that game! I'm just saying that without Goldeneye, we wouldn't be where we are today. Goldeneye has made a great mark in the FPS genre and we owe it some credit for all the great games we have now!

-oddguy

Disgruntled Intern · #26 09-01-2003, 09:10 PM

jacob, I was lucky enough to have an old [when I say old, I mean we were friends from pre-school until 8th grade] friend move back to town, and it just so happened he runs a tech/review site.

It is currently being revamped, and changing servers, though.

Anyway, he moved back, and gave me a job, since for the passed 2 years, I have had my own small review site, and done the occasional review for a few others.

Fez · #27 09-02-2003, 09:17 AM

i'd love to get a job like that. Oh i forgot some games.

spyhunter 2

damnit i've forgotten the other one. I'll put it up when i remember.

edit: i remeber! Rogue ops!

Facsimile · #28 09-03-2003, 01:17 AM

Goldeneye is my favourite first person shooter.

Aww ferill, now you've got me super-hyped about Worms 3D.

Fez · #29 09-03-2003, 08:15 AM

sorryy man, but it is such a good game...