Data Max PS2 Memory Card Reader (PS3)
Customer Review: RUBBISH
Got this to carry on playing final fantasy 12 on ps3‘>ps3 coz i sold my ps2 little did i know it would be so difficult use. My ps3‘>ps3 does`nt even recognise the datamax when pluged nor does my pc which is only a year old the manual gives no help what so ever, complete waste of money and now got to start all over again on my game when was 35 hours into gameplay

do not by this product.

Customer Review: DO NOT BUY THIS!
I bought this for my nephew who just recently got a PS3. He decided to give me his PS2, so I picked this up so that I could transfer his saves and use his old memory card. I followed the directions and tried to transfer the data. It didn’t work. Odd. I tried to check the card. CORRUPTED. The card couldn’t even be reformatted. The card is now bricked, and the Data Max is useless. The plastic fell apart after inserting the card ONCE.

The card was an Official Sony 8 MB card. It is now a $25 paper weight. DON’T BUY THIS. Unless bricking your electronics is your thing. Then go ahead I guess.

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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.

[Bundle] Sony - BRAVIA KDL-40V3000 LCD Television + High Performance HDMI Cable - 1.2 m - 1080p - HDMI 1.3 + Flat Screen Cleaning Kit - free + PlayStation 3 40 GB Games Console (PS3)
Sony’s KDL-40V3000AEP makes Full HD televisions accessible to everyone! This TV includes the best Sony technologies, including the BRAVIA Engine, a Live Colors colour generator, a BRAVIA Theatre Sync function and a 3D digital filter, to imrpove the display of images on your screen. It has an amazing 16,000:1 contrast rate, bringing out the deepest and brightest colours on its 40″ display surface.The KDL-40V3000AEP has great connectivity too, allowing you to hook up your DVD player or games console, or even use this screen as a monitor for your computer! It also has a digital tuner, so you can watch even more programmes and enjoy your audiovisual entertainment to the max!

The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena (PS3)
List Price: ?49.99
Amazon Price: ?39.99

Ps2 To Ps3 Controller Convertor (Ps3)

Ghostbusters (PS3)
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HDMI Cable (PS3) Customer Review: HDMI cable Vs Component RGB cable
If you want to experience the playstation 3’s full graphics potential you will need an HD ready TV (preferably fully HD - 1080p).
HD quality video can be achieved using either a high quality HD compatible RGB component cable or a ps3‘>ps3 compatible HDMI cable.
The quality is the same for both when used with PS, PS2 and PS3 games as well as bluray or HD movie disks, the only drawback of using a component RGB cable is that the PS3 cannot upscale standard DVDs to HD quality, also note: some early HD LCD televisions do not have a component RGB socket (5 round sockets similar to standard AV component inputs).
I hope you found this information useful.
Customer Review: Useful?
What does this piece of kit do ? Is it needed when buying the PS3 ?
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The Darkness (PS3)
Customer Review: Could have been a contender!
The Darkness is a game with a good atmosphere, accomplished moments of tension and creepiness and a few problems.

First of all, there are a lot of loading times. You have to take the subway to go to the different locations, to do the missions and every time there’s a loading screen. The developer tried to mask this by putting in little monologues by Jackie Estacado, the main character, to advance the story but all these loads get old really fast.

Another problem is the fact that Jackie can’t run. This is very annoying, not only during the combat sequences but also as you walk through the streets, slowly, just to get to your destination. There’s also no map. You have to watch the street signs and try to find the way. At the start of the game this is very disorienting.

The game is in essence a FPS with a revenge story. Jackie Estacado is a hitman for his uncle, a Mafia boss. On his 21st birthday Jackie not only finds out his uncle Paulie wants him dead, he also gets a visit from the darkness, a demon of sorts, who’s origin is never really explained, that needs a host and has haunted the Estacado family for generations. The darkness gives Jackie some powers, like a demon arm which can impale enemies or pick up cars and throw them, two darkness guns, a black hole which sucks enemies into hell and “creeping dark”. Creeping Dark sends one of the snakes that accompany you through the game, slithering away to do stealth kills, open doors, go through small openings, etc. Some of these powers are useful, some aren’t. Creeping Dark is hard to control as is the demon arm. The Darkness guns are ok but not very powerful and you never lack ammo for the other weapons, so not much use for them. The black hole is the biggest power and is so strong it almost feels like a cheat at times. All these powers feed on the dark which brings us to another problem. You have to shoot out all the lights in the game. For a game called The Darkness, there’s a lot of light, everywhere and you’ll spend a lot of time just shooting it, again and again to be able to use your powers. Very dull. You could use a light killer darkling to do it but his AI is simply awful. Darklings are little creatures you can summon to kill enemies with guns or bombs or many other ways but their AI is so bad they’re also close to useless. Jackie is also surprisingly weak. The beginning is the hardest part of the whole game. You don’t have any powers yet and Jackie dies with two or three shots. Very frustrating. The weapons, all of them, also feel very weak. You don’t get any thrill with shooting them, they just don’t feel powerful.

The game does have some very entertaining moments. Two chapters are spent in a place resembling hell, where you fight zombie Nazis and it’s creepy and exciting. The story is well written and the voice acting is superb. There’s plenty of violence and mayhem. To make your powers stronger you order one of those snakes to eat the hearts of the dead enemies and it’s cool and disturbing at the same time. There’s something you don’t see everyday. There are also execution moves, when you get close to an enemy. Jackie among other executions can for example shoot him right in the face and blow his head off. It’s just nasty and very cool too. A shame you can’t do it often because Jackie… yeah he dies easily.

Even so, the game is not hard and you won’t have a hard time going through it. I took about 8 hours to unlock most things and finish it on normal. The multiplayer is dead so single player is all you get.

The Darkness is fun. The open world experience fails, there’s no cars, almost no people on the street and a map is sorely missing but the graphics are very good and everything is seedy and or macabre. The atmosphere is perfect. There’s always a feeling of unease and creepiness. The gore and carnage is amazing.

Still, I get the idea that with a little more work and some tweaks this could have been an amazing game. This way, it’s a good game which fans of the genre shouldn’t miss.

Customer Review: Big suprise
The Darkness had been sitting on my shelf under the likes of Uncharted, Folklore and Ratchet & Clank for months, untill one day i decided to play it and couldn’t believe i left it so long.

I’d written off all reviews of this game, i’m very, very sceptical about good things said about first person shooters as they tend to get lauded just for being an FPS. (Bioshock, Halo, Crysis you know the games i mean)

The game starts like a fairly typical FPS, there’s enough happening to give you an excuse to shoot someone and even when you get The Darkness powers a little way in, its fun, but not all the amazing.

After a while of playing though, something hit me “Woah, this FPS has a story, and quite a good one.” The game even leaves you to your own devices about half way through and you have to find your own missions and explore for a while.

I have a few issues with the game, Jackie could do with a run and the game can get absurdly hard even on the easiest mode where you still die far too quickly, but arguably this makes you think a bit more about how you’re going to fight a battle.

I feel sorry for this game, its thunder was well and truly stolen by worse first person shooters that got more hype and weren’t even superior in the graphics department. I would actualy go as far as to say FPS fans might not enjoy this so much, as there are chuncks of the game where you can’t even wield your weapons and have to a bit of talking and get on with that story malarky.

I can seriously say its worth every penny. One thing i will add is stick with it, the story takes a while to get going and it’s why i never got into it all them months ago and put it down. Big mistake.

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The Gamers Choice Sony Ps1, Ps2 & Ps3 Compatible Rgb Scart Cable With Av Video
Sony PS1, PS2 & PS3 Compatible RGB Scart Cable with AV Video/Audio Box

Vertical Docking Station for Sony PS3
Upgrade your PS3’s features with this vertical docking station Base consists of four rounded rubber mats to provide stability to your expensive console. Place your favorite games next to your console for easy access. Accessory ONLY. PS3 console not included. Compatible with: Sony Playstation 3

PREMIUM HDMI to HDMI 24K GOLD PLATED CABLE 1.5m - FOR HD TV’S & PS3 etc
This is a superior Gold Plated cable with EMI suppressors, HDMI to HDMI male. Produced for us to the same superior standards as the leading manufacturers but unbranded. We feel you should pay for the cable and not for the brand name! This cable is capable of transferring high-bandwidth, uncompressed digital video, multi-channel digital audio and control functions. HDCP Compatible (High-Bandwidth Digital Content Protection) - the content scrambling standard used in all current TV/Satellite and Cable boxes/DVD/Projectors etc. Connectors: HDMI Male/Male, Type A Diameter of suppressor: 22mm (widest part)
Customer Review: foxy reviewer
I used the 1.5 M HDMI lead with gold connectors from Gizmo deals to link up my 1080 37″ LCD TV and DVD player with HDMI upscaling and also used it to connect a Freeview box with HDMI upscaling to my TV and was very pleased with the picture and sound quality. The lead is very good quality for the price and I would definitely recommend it.
Customer Review: Great Product
I can’t believe the whingers on this review page moaning about the postage. Try and find a decent 1.5m gold plated cable for this sort of money on the high street with or without postage. The cheapest I could find was ?20 at Richer Sounds who are cheap for most things. Bargain Gizmo - make no mistake!

Sony PS3 (Playstation 3) Controller USB Twin Charge Docking Station
Customer Review: ps3‘>ps3 compatible ?????????
i got this for xmas and i go to set it up . i plug in the usb and it lights up and it looked good. then i go to charge the controlers and nothing . i try every thing ( unpluggin it , restarting ps3‘>ps3) i thinks iits broken but i thought i better try it in my pc and ….oh it works . i dont want my controlers by my pc i want them by my ps3‘>ps3 !!!!!!!

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (PS3) Customer Review: Hmm…
Being one of the first games out for the PS3… I got it. I never was really a fan of big RPG like Oblivion, but I did love all the GTA’s. Oblivion puts you in the eyes of a character who in typical fashion has to sav everybody from an evil force from another world - Oblivion. The visal effects, graphics, gameplay… they are all amazing. The world is massive, and can be a pain to get from one place to the other if you dont use Fast-Travel. However, as other people have reviewed… I agree its not what they say it is in magazines and other independent reviews. The game is very repetitive because ovbiously they cant get thousands of actors for all the characters, and you find that certain voices repeat themselves. I would strongly reccomend getting a loan of this game for atleast 2 months, because after a month you start to find the game boring.
Customer Review: boring
this game is so boring and repetitive that i keep nodding of whilst playing i wouldnt recomend it to anyone nuff said

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