Talk Playstation 3 News

A new issue of OPM UK has been released, and with it brings some new rumors. Some on Crysis, Dead Rising, and firmware 2.50. 

-The PS3 2.5 firmware will come with a sceen-grab function so you can send game images to friends. 
-Who wants to be the Daddy? The as yet still unannounced Bioshock 2 will have a multiplayer mode. 
-The team at Rockstar Games responsible for the PSP version of The Warriors is working on Max Payne 3. 
-EA will publish the ex-Vivendi project, Jack Black’s Brutal Legend. 
-Pandemic’s rumoured sandbox-style Batman game has been cancelled due to reasons of rubbishness. 
-Like your gore in bite-sized chunks? The sequel to zombie basher Dead Rising will be episodic. 
-Sci-fi shooter Crysis will be coming to PS3 in 2009, and it’ll bring a whole load of new content with it. 

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A user named Shuyu from FFXIII.net has some scans of the article. The article is an interview with compilation developers Yoshinori Kitase, and Shinji Hashimoto. 

The PlayStation 3 release hasn’t been affected by a port to the Xbox 360. The scenario for the game is complete, and the artsy side is about 80% complete. 

In the interview they reassure Playstation 3 owners that their version of Final Fantasy XIII hasn’t been delayed at all and that the Xbox 360 version won’t even be started until the PS3 release is burned to Blu-ray. As well as that, Kitase has given an update on the progress of development stating that the Scenario for Final Fantasy XIII is complete and the Artistic Side is 80% complete. To read the full interview, view the scans below.

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There are two unannounced titles coming to the Playstation 3. According to Vanessa Morgan, editor of the Official PlayStation Magazine in Australia and New Zealand has said that her top 5 upcoming Playstation 3 games are:

1. LittleBigPlanet
2  Motorstorm 2
3. MGS4
4. An unannounced title coming to PS3 for the first time
5. Another unannounced title coming to PS3 that’ll BLOW you away

So there are two unnamed PS3 titles that are coming… no one knows what they are apart from Vanessa.

After answering her top 5 titles coming soon, she went on to say:

“Sorry, not meaning to rub it in but OMG! The titles are BIG and so were the forms I’ve had to sign about not releasing any info until after the embargo dates pass BUT all will be revealed in the next two issues of the mag. We’ve had to fly to London, Paris, San Fran, Vegas and LA to nab this info. We’re tired and our eyes are square.”

Vanessa answered many questions, click here to read more.

The Official Playstation Magazine featured a Tom Clancy’s Hawx preview, Ubisoft’s attempt at creating an Ace Combat competitor.

There is some sort of drifting involved in Hawx, and drifting is the jet term for handbrake turns. So what does this mean? It means that you can skid the plane through the air, point it in the direction you want and then whack the afterburner on to send you plane in that direction. So imagine this, an enemy is chasing you and you want to do something about it, do a drift, point your plane towards the enemy and simply turn the afterburners on and send a rocket his way. Or even better go nose down towards the ground, drift and put the plane upright, and after burn away inches from touching the ground. The possibilities are endless.

You can only do this when you have turned electronic flying aids off and it puts you into an external cinematic view mode. It sounds very tricky but after pulling off a few stunts it starts to make sense and you will get used to it.

While turning off the assistance looks fantastic, it does limit your use of features you would find playing with flying aids switched on. The Official Playstation magazine says hitting things is one.

Cockpit view limits you from pulling off such stunts but will warn you when you’re about to hit something or stall.

Now onto the HUD. The HUD is very much like that found in Ghost Recon 2 (GRAW2) that displays plenty of information such as the enemies’ location and targets.

You have team mates that help you, in the sky and on the ground. Just like in GRAW2, you can select units using the left and right on the D-PAD and to give orders to the selected units you use up and down.

You can order bombers to take out a ground target, a fighter to dogfight and radar planes to utilise some sort of UAV similar to GRAW2’s UAV’s. Talk into the headset to issue commands, select units and switch weapons as seen in Endwar.

On completion of each mission you are awarded with XP and depending on how well you did on the mission determines how much XP you get. XP is used to enhance skills and unlock new abilities. You can also earn money in the game through the PMC and you can spend the money on new planes and weapons.

So there you have it, the Hawx preview. Purchase the Official Playstation Magazine – UK May edition to find out more information as they have a Q&A with the lead designer and also 5 big questions regarding the game.

Are you going to buy Hawx when it’s released?