MX vs ATV Untamed (PS3)
MX vs ATV Untamed (PS3)
Customer Review: Pretty good
I downloaded the demo of this game from Playstation network and was pretty impressed. It is fun to play and is an exciting racing game. The graphics are pretty good not excellent though. Some of the effects are amazing. There is also a very fun minigame where you can practice stunts beforre the race. If a few problems are sorted then it should be a good game.
Customer Review: Where to start…
Rainbow Studio’s really gave PS3 owners a bad one with their first next generation game.
I’ll be brief with this review. As there is too much to take in, if anybody owns it.
First of all the bad:
1: PS3 owners wont enjoy this game online, yes the online capabilities have been improved over MX vs. ATV Unleashed. Here is the fun part, there is no way to talk to other players via text communication, or headset/microphone support. They simply did not put it in.
The lead developer at Rainbow Studio’s regarding the Playstation 3 version, said publicly that he wasn’t aware of no communication support until the last minute.
2: During online play, the game will occasionally lock up your machine from time to time (totally random). Either when the MX vs ATV logo spins before game starts or just as you get off the gate into the first corner. This is probably the worst part.
3: Hay Bale derby. Good luck with Supercross races, more so online. There is hardly any reset time for the bales. There is a lot of nasty going ons if you happen to be second place. It appears on your screen like the leader is deliberately hitting the bales and causing them to fall down to the center of the turns. Usually blocking the racing line and having to play dodge em’s with them.
Based on what I experienced thus far playing online when considering an SX tourney, I can’t see anyway possible that it would be any fun. Especially when you run tracks like wilford. Ran against 8 guys the other night, and it was carnage galore. I mean, you couldn’t even ride the track. The longer the tracks are it gets a little better, but when you have a track that is no longer than a 45 second track, it makes it virtually impossible to have a real race. It more like survival than it is a race. I still can’t fathom, how this passed without being fixed. Heck, I remember on the PC version, guys that made tracks, would at least put in the time to have beta testors to give the guys critical feedback. I can’t think of one track where there was a total miss like this bale thing. Amazing!!!!
4: Passing other riders. You cannot pass a rider cleanly or you will be taken off the bike. You must stay like 10 feet away from each rider to pass and remain on the bike.
5: The game was originally advertised as 12 players online, but Rainbow once again at the last minute reduced the online players to 8. While the Xbox 360 version has 12 players online.
6: Extremely poor bike sounds for the 4 strokes. Sadly if there’s any big thumper fans, you’ll be extremely disappointed with the sounds Rainbow Studio’s gave them.
7: Good luck with the rider collisions, if they hit your rear wheel hard enough they’ll send you off the track or into a 360 spin.
8: No thrill cam, it was such a nice feature from Unleashed, but they took it out.
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The Good
1: Improved bike physics, you can really pull off some great whips/scrubs in this version.
2: Customized MX bikes to some degree, you can alter the plastic colours/change parts, graphic kits (limited number of kits), handlebars, hub colours, tyres, suspensions, fork colours and exhausts.
3: Bike setup, suspension tuning, low or top end tuning and brake adjustments.
4: You can buy most of the big named rider gear, helmets, boots, goggles, and chest protecters. Or you can choose not to wear the chest protector. Ride with or without a number and name.
5: Impressive life like helmet cam. It’s great seeing the tip of the visor enter the view of your screen when you hit hard jumps etc. Just like real life, so to speak.
6: The only way to communicate with riders, is once you’ve setup a track. You wait in the hangar and send invites to your buddies to whoever has the game in your friends list. You can free ride in the hanger track while you wait for other people to join your game before its time to line up at the gates.
7: The scenery on the tracks are quite spectacular, more so some of the Nationals. Despite when most of the banners, stakes, objects get pulled over and remain on the track.
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I really do hope Rainbow addresses these problems with patches for the Playstation 3 owners, more so for online communication support. As it really takes the fun factor out of this game.
The problem is Rainbow has never been known to patch their previous games. I just hope there is a first time.
Rainbow has gave the impression to a lot of users that it was a XBOX360 exclusive and causing the Playstation 3 version to look like a quick port.
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Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 (PS3)
List Price: ?49.99
Amazon Price: ?34.99
Used Price: ?30.00
Customer Review: Simply Awful
Do not buy this game what ever you do its like stepping back in time ,the graphics and textures are straight off the PS1 and the online play is a total shambles.bought and took it back a day later, its a poor effort from Ubisoft who used Vegas’s massive fan base to make loads more money and rip everyone off with a game that is no more than a slightly updated Vegas1……LAZY Money Grabbers!!!…..Buy Call of Duty4 instead.
Customer Review: Unfinished
Put quite simply - the online aspect of the game does not work at all. It’s either unfinished, untested - call it what you will its impossible to play. There’s currently a 1 in 20 chance of being able to accept an invite and the chances are if you successfully accept an invite, you’ll be thrown out of the game. Don’t but this if you want to play online - wait until its fixed. If you want to play offline - don’t buy it yet. Wait until the Marketplace is flooded with cheap copies as people who want to play online will be selling it on.
Ridge Racer 7 (PS3)
The latest instalment of the acclaimed drift racing game returns on PLAYSTATION 3. Key Features: Drift racing at its best: Ridge Racer? 7 includes a total of 40 machines and 22 exhilarating courses filled with nitrous, fast corners and hairpin turns. With reversed courses, the total grows to 44, the most in the series ever! Customise your ultimate machine: The brand new machine customisation mode gives players the power to create their dream machine with 375,000 possible visual customisations and 7,150 tuning modifications. Any racing style can be brought to life for the most hardcore or casual gamer Race your way to the top: In the new career mode, RIDGE STATE GRAND-PRIX, work yourself up to become the best Ridge Racer. The player will be tested to the limit, building a career from the ground up in over 160 races Online play: In addition to the single player modes, Ridge Racer 7 will produce heated races for up to 14 players (TBC). Racers will be able to bring their customised machine online to prove who the ultimate Ridge Racer is. Online features also include a true global ranking system with downloadable content.
List Price: ?39.99
Amazon Price: ?19.99
Used Price: ?13.98
Customer Review: persevere
I bought Ridge Racere 7 for ?20, being in love with the original arcade game, and having loved ridge racer revolution on psone, but sceptical at some of the videos i had seen of number 7, I thought for ?20, compared to ?40/50 for most games it was a risk worth taking, and i’m glad I did. Some of the negative reviews are correct, it is very unrealistic, and some of the time when you drift it does seem like you arent 100% in control of your car, but you are NEVER not in some if not all control. I understand the whole unrealistic thing, but as someone else here as said, why has that become such a huge problem? How many computer games are realistic? If you really like gran turismo, sure, this might not be for you. But it’s just different. I agree with the reviews that are unsure at first playing the game, but to say youve played for an hour then given up I think is a mistake. I was feeling a little let down at first, but if you perservere, like most games, it gets better. You get the hang of timing corners better, the feel becomes more natural, the cars get faster. And as for lack of tracks, i’m slightly surprised. Most ridge racer games, as far as i’m aware, have never had this many tracks, and when you race them backwards and at different times of day, I was actually quite surprised how much I didnt find the tracks get samey. I have 3 games for my new ps3‘>ps3. Resistance, Uncharted, and this. And out of them I get the feeling that this is going to have the longest life. I have just completed resistance, and am not overly tempted to replay it, as much as i enjoyed it first time through, but the amount of grand prixs, time trials, single events, and manufacturers trials does make for a long career mode. Although it may only be minor things, you do keep constantly winning rewards from your efforts. The more I play it, the more im impressed and challenged. Overall, i’d say if you an absolute turismo die hard, this will take a lot of getting used to.If you do get it, and at ?20 most places I dont see why you shouldnt, give it time. It feels unfulfilling at first, but give it 3 or 4 hours and pick up the feel of it, and it becomes an excellent racer. Very high tempo.
Customer Review: Fun with a capital smile (for some)
I totally understand why some don’t like ridge racer, indeed hate it with a passion. But i am in the opposite camp - i love it. Ridge Racer involves a totally different driving style than you get in other games: drifting. Maybe as petrol head you will have watched the Fast and Furious movies: well number 3 involved drifting The story follows a kid from the states, decent driver/street racer going to japan, getting involved in racing - and being introduced drifting. He can’t do it - crashes his car several times. In ridge racer - thats what you will do as you learn to play… Or maybe as a petrolhead you will have seen the episode of topgear where the Japanese drifter racers do a demonstration and teach Hammond how to drift. At first he can’t do it- he spins around in 360’s and goes round corners backwards… Again in ridge racer thats what you will do as you learn to get to grips with it. I feel my fellow reviewers who say that RR is unrealistic are being unfair - maybe they are just unused to this style of driving - and we don’t seem to get it much on telly over in the UK (mainly because drifting round corners rather ruins your tyres in the same way doing a do’nut does - but worse cause you need downforce and traction to still get round the corner while do’nuts need more of a sliding effect). As for the game - you start of with some ok cars, some easier than others to control - you win races you get faster cars that are slightly harder to control - you win points with which you can then buy parts, making the harder cars slightly easier to drive, making it easier to win the harder races, which gives you faster cars which are… oh you get the idea. and that’s the problem with this version of RR - the learning curve starts high as you have a new car, then as you progress through the races, getting points for a third place which allows you new things (say new tyres) the difficulty drops off - while your skill goes up (well it should go up after each race): making it easier to win the next time. I think it’ best summed up as being not so much a learning curve, as a learning rollercoaster. And you also have a fair bit of redoing the same early races with different cars to get points with a different manufacture - but you only realise this once your skills and the cars make the outcome a bit ehmm ‘obvious’ After a while the game does top out when you have the skills, the cars, the add-ons, and each race is a challenge until you have it mastered. And then there is the online play - which is great: although at first i seemed to only get into races where the others had suped up cars, and i wasn’t at that level. I either mysteriously learned how to avoid it, or can compete at that level now - either way it’s great fun Which is just as well as there is no two player mode for people in the same room - which kind of kills that game as one to have your mates around to play.
Lego: Indiana Jones (PS3) 
List Price: ?39.99
Amazon Price: ?26.99
Turning Point : Fall Of Liberty (PS3) Customer Review: PLAINLY THE WORST PS3 GAME EVER
with some of the worst graphics on ps3‘>ps3 rubbish gameplay glitches galore this is probably the worst game on ps3‘>ps3. IF YOU WERE GOING TO BUY THIS GAME HERE IS AN IDEA DONT GET CALL OF DUTY INSTEAD.
Customer Review: Funny but not fun
As with the other reviewers , I agree the graphics are shocking ,even the vehicle textures are plain i.e. no detail.
There are clipping bugs everywhere (funny) and the enemy AI is non-existent. They don’t seem to even be aware of you at times .
Having, said all that I love FPS’s so I still got something out of it - not worth the ?45 I paid though
So one star only and thats pushing it
I GIVE THIS GAME 7.6 OUT OF 10 
