Publisher: Ubisoft Developer: Ubisoft Genre: Modern Shooter Players: 1 Europe Release Date: 22nd Feb 2008 Age Rating: 12+ Online Play: Yes (16 Player)

Sony Playstation 3 can play all of your PS2 games as well as play the new cutting-edge Playstation 3 games. The powerful console also allows you to play blu-ray movies! Find out why you should get yourself a Playstation 3.

PlayStation 3 Graphics:

The PS3's graphics processor is created by NVIDIA, a name well known to PC users. Jen-Hsun Huang, the Co-founder, President, and CEO of NVIDIA explained that Kutaragi approached him with three challenges for the company when developing the PS3's graphics processor: build the world's most advanced GPU, synthesize movie quality graphics, and take full advantage of the Cell processor. With HD the colours are far richer, the graphics crisper and the overall experience lots better. But I don't want to get too carried away. While the graphics are indeed much better, the games themselves aren't so different. Sure, there are new race tracks, characters or challenges, but you'll still end up frantically pressing buttons to steer cars around corners, cross swords with bad guys or get your golf swing just right for that hole-in-one. In a sense it's very similar to upgrading to HDTV. You get the same shows and movies but just enjoy them more until the novelty of HD wears off and the picture quality becomes your new measure of what's "normal." About four months ago I was used to the PlayStation 2's graphics but after seeing the Playstation 3 in action on a HDTV there was no stopping me, I purchased one the next day! Those HD graphics will definitely tempt a lot of people to buy the console -- but not immediately for all people. While I enjoyed the new games, they're just not sufficiently different from the old ones for a casual gamer like myself to rush out and buy the PS3 on launch.

Away from games, the console offers a whole lot more than the PS2. The main menu uses Sony's cross-media bar, "XMB," which will be instantly familiar to anyone who has used the PlayStation Portable. Nestled within the menu is a Web browser that does a pretty good job of displaying Internet sites on the TV screen. Also new is a function that shows when your friends are online and allows you to send them short messages, in much the same way that PC instant messaging applications do, but a lot more advanced. It is also worth knowing that playing online on the PlayStation 3 is totally free unlike the competing Microsoft Xbox 360. Plus of course there's the Blu-ray Disc player. Sony has high hopes that its inclusion in the PlayStation 3 will give the HD movie format a needed boost -- and it might just work with some users.

With the console hooked up to an HDTV, why not pick up a Blu-ray Disc instead of a DVD? Unfortunately, the selection of titles available on Blu-ray Disc and the competing HD DVD format is increasing rapidly. The gaming, network functions and Blu-ray Disc player all add up to living room fun but only if you've got an HDTV. Consumers with standard definition sets might do well to sit tight until they have a TV that does the PS3's picture quality justice, because there just doesn't seem to be enough to justify the hefty price tag if you won't be getting the full effect of the graphics.

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