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24-11-2008, 09:46 PM
Hmm, im hoping that reviewing the actually game isnt technically against the ToS but who cares.
The first download you do will be roughly 77mb. With that comes your appartment. You don't get much to play around with at this moment in time. whether its different in the actual open beta we'll soon find out. The graphics gave me an instant WOW. Great colours and animation (if you call it that) are amazing and the view from your room, well, lets just say its good lol. There is a mini tutorial that you go through which is basically showing you how to talk and interact with things. The final stage is you going to the Main Plaza.
One of the biggest downsides of it so far is the loading and downloading of each area. Although necessary, you can get bored very easily just waiting. I dont mind a one of download of like 30mb but if it was a seamless transition between each area (like GTA) then it would be soo much better. Anyway, once you are in the plaza you are welcomed by once again another amazing view. The graphics are again almost crisp and the colours will astound you. Video screens are up and although you have to wait for them to download they are of a reasonable quality. Other areas include bowling and shopping. The bowling alley is reasonable well thought out. Bowling alleys in front, arcades to the side and pool tables to the left and right as you walk in. Once again amazing graphics. The arcade is great fun with games that you could play for an hour if you could be bothered. The shopping mall is also a nice idea. With typical shopping music it adds an ambiance of a typical shopping mall. Although no shops were open, the pictures they had up looked great (different apartments etc.)
Interacting with other Playstation 3 owners is great. Especially with friends. The voice chat is great. Clear voices are heard and you can have a right laugh with others. A few bad points is with the walking and running, you can sometimes tend to hover for a few seconds or two. Its annoying but a glitch sure to be gotten rid of soon enough in the public beta or release. I can see it being used more as a social area rather than meeting up to play a game. Yeh sure you can join a game from it with friends but with games becoming more aware of friends wanting to play each other, i think a lot of game designers will incorporate what LBP have and add an invite/join feature. More of a social network i am thinking.
I think what would be absolutely amazing is that if you could actually go shopping. Get a few shops to sponsor and add an actual shopping mall. so you can go clothes shopping, game shopping etc. Anyway, once its open, im sure youll find it a laugh for a week but if nothing new has happened to it then you will find it boring after a week or two. Their is very little furniture or clothes so atm, its not very customizable. I have seen people wearing other clothes that were from other HOMEs and it does look promising.
thats enough from me and i hope i dont get caught lmao
The first download you do will be roughly 77mb. With that comes your appartment. You don't get much to play around with at this moment in time. whether its different in the actual open beta we'll soon find out. The graphics gave me an instant WOW. Great colours and animation (if you call it that) are amazing and the view from your room, well, lets just say its good lol. There is a mini tutorial that you go through which is basically showing you how to talk and interact with things. The final stage is you going to the Main Plaza.
One of the biggest downsides of it so far is the loading and downloading of each area. Although necessary, you can get bored very easily just waiting. I dont mind a one of download of like 30mb but if it was a seamless transition between each area (like GTA) then it would be soo much better. Anyway, once you are in the plaza you are welcomed by once again another amazing view. The graphics are again almost crisp and the colours will astound you. Video screens are up and although you have to wait for them to download they are of a reasonable quality. Other areas include bowling and shopping. The bowling alley is reasonable well thought out. Bowling alleys in front, arcades to the side and pool tables to the left and right as you walk in. Once again amazing graphics. The arcade is great fun with games that you could play for an hour if you could be bothered. The shopping mall is also a nice idea. With typical shopping music it adds an ambiance of a typical shopping mall. Although no shops were open, the pictures they had up looked great (different apartments etc.)
Interacting with other Playstation 3 owners is great. Especially with friends. The voice chat is great. Clear voices are heard and you can have a right laugh with others. A few bad points is with the walking and running, you can sometimes tend to hover for a few seconds or two. Its annoying but a glitch sure to be gotten rid of soon enough in the public beta or release. I can see it being used more as a social area rather than meeting up to play a game. Yeh sure you can join a game from it with friends but with games becoming more aware of friends wanting to play each other, i think a lot of game designers will incorporate what LBP have and add an invite/join feature. More of a social network i am thinking.
I think what would be absolutely amazing is that if you could actually go shopping. Get a few shops to sponsor and add an actual shopping mall. so you can go clothes shopping, game shopping etc. Anyway, once its open, im sure youll find it a laugh for a week but if nothing new has happened to it then you will find it boring after a week or two. Their is very little furniture or clothes so atm, its not very customizable. I have seen people wearing other clothes that were from other HOMEs and it does look promising.
thats enough from me and i hope i dont get caught lmao