The video is a little unwieldy, but features multiple short segments that showcase both the action and exploration elements of the upcoming sci-fi title, which follows a unit of psychic warriors – The OSF – as they attempt to take Earth back from an invading force of literal brain-eaters known as “The Others,” drawn to the planet by its sudden radiance of mental energy. Fortunately, a publisher live stream held to “celebrate the release date announcement” contains around 20 minutes of action from the “Brainpunk” adventure. After all, Blu-ray is awesome, the exclusives are there ( with more on the way), and we haven’t even begun to review emergency procedures (it’s men and old people first, right?).While we’ve been hearing a lot about the world, concepts, and characters of Bandai Namco’s upcoming hack ‘n’ slash RPG, Scarlet Nexus, we haven’t seen too much in the way of actual gameplay.
It’s obvious that a price cut would help the PS3’s competitive position, but it seems silly at this point to brand the black beauty a sinking ship. As for the third point, LittleBigPlanet, Valkyria Chronicles, and Resistance 2 say “Hi.” Heck, even IGN declared the PS3 the place to go for exclusives in 2008.
Blu-ray is catching on big time, and I think the first-day sales numbers of The Dark Knight and Iron Man will back me up on that one. However, we’re going to take extreme issue with the author’s second and third points. Compare that to $200 for an Xbox 360 and $250 for a Wii and you’ve got yourself an indisputable fact. Yes, $400 is the least you can spend on a new PS3 ( cheapassgamers might disagree). Here’s our problem with those three reasons: only one of them is a fact. What do you guys think? We offer up our opinions after the break.