Resistance, Warhawk and Uncharted to get snazzy Home features.
According to Kotaku, Sony has revealed how some of its biggest first-party titles will integrate into the Home virtual community, including such things as a side-scrolling action game, unseen areas from games and more.
Resistance: Fall of Man, Insomniac Games' launch title, is to get a Home portal offering PlayStation 3 owners the ability to visit unseen areas of the game and listen to bonus content delivered by way of intercepted radio communications between the European and US Forces.
AdvertisementUncharted: Drake's Fortune seems to be getting something even better though, offering Home users a 2D, side-scrolling arcade game. According to Kotaku, the game is in the same style of Contra and Out Of This World and will feature loads of enemies and exploding barrels.
The Warhark Home portal will present Home users with a "war room" where up to eight players can meet to discuss tactics and such for an upcoming match. What makes this something more than voice chat is a 3D replication of the level, with which the players can lay out their strategies in an accurately scaled space. It will even be possible to place scaled army men around the 3D map. Very cool. Once the tactics are complete players will be able to jump straight into the game.
It's all sounding very impressive and it's good to hear of new and original uses of the Home environment.
Home is expected pretty soon, although no solid date has been confirmed by Sony.
FantasyMeister wrote at 10:35 on 28 February 2008
Back during the Central Station/Network Trail days of PS2 online when we were giving feedback on what we'd like to see on the PS3, I stressed that Microsoft's biggest edge online was its consistency: every developer, first or third party, had to integrate with Live, no exceptions, and then expressed a wish to see Sony follow along the same lines.
So with every single 360 title you've got your friends list, achievements, access to dashboard etc., and that consistency is what we fork out £39.99 a year for.
Sony, on the other hand, still appear to be sticking to their culture of 'let the developers do what they want' which will lead to another inconsistent environment, it looks like not all titles are going to integrate with Home. It's a missed opportunity, Home could have been so much more and Sony could quite easily have finished off the competition this time around by cracking a whip and telling developers what to do.
As it is Home itself is a great leap forward for the PS3 which makes the XBox 360 dashboard look like a piece of A4 with your friend's phone numbers scribbled on it.
A PS4 launching with Home in situ and fully compatible with all future games published on the console would be a formiddable weapon, but Sony keep on 'slapping it together as we go along' which was probably one of Central Station's most notable features.
Then again, Home is free...
Picsel815 wrote at 23:41 on 02 March 2008
I understand what you mean....but sony are having a hard time getting developers to make games for their system anyway - yeah we have some amazing games coming out, but third-party developers usually prefer to make games for 360 then port them to PS3 (and has usually been a pretty poor port) so Sony need to encourage them to make games for them first before they can start cracking a whip on the developers to make them do what they want.
But i really wish all developers would make their games with Home in mind. I dont have a 360 and tbh i dont really want one, im too worried because of the TRL problems. im extremely happy with my PS3 and i know alot of people complain about the amount of games on it, but it only came out last year in March or May in the UK, and ever since ive had a steady flow of top notch games to play and i havent gotten bored yet, it might be different for Early adopters in the US, but i think in the UK Early adopters have had a good deal really Resistance, Ninja Gaiden, Uncharted, Motorstorm, Assassins Creed, CoD4, UT3 have been a good selectioin for me personally, i just wish that when Home came out i had more of a reason to replay these games.