Gas Powered Games have released a patch that removes the SecuROM copy protection crap from Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance. The game was released this week, so the patch has taken less than 4 days to arrive. Another game to add to the neverending pile!<\/p>\n
I also bought a PS3. I knew I would get one sooner or later, and with the recent price discounts and Ratchet & Clank now out, there just wasn’t any reason to delay the inevitable. R&C is fantastic: smooth, beautiful, fun, varied and uncomplicated. In a way it’s disappointing, because it feels pretty much the same as the PS2 original when it came out. This once again confirms Jason Rubin’s idea<\/a> that graphics are going to get better but not really add anything new to games.<\/p>\n After the XBox Live experience, the PS Store seems incredibly limited and amateurish in comparison. A crisp but ugly interface, very few demos available, the installation<\/b> process for these demos can take between 5 and 10 minutes, and it has already crashed once.<\/p>\n I checked out the Heavenly Sword demo, and now think that Zero Punctuation’s review<\/a> was way too positive. Which might explain<\/i> why the PS3 built-in web browser is unable to play it.<\/p>\n Another let down was the demo for Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune. This game sounds great on paper: Tomb Raider-style gameplay, great production and graphics, state of the art animation technology, well written story and characters. I didn’t see any of that in the demo. Animation in particular looked extremely poor to me, with things like very visible (and I mean VERY) skidding. A nice touch was the way the t-shirt wrinkles as the character moves, but I’ll be damned if I’m going to pay $70 for THAT.<\/p>\n At least I can fill a coupon<\/a> and get 5 free Blue-Ray movies. Edit: or install Yellow Dog Linux on it. In fact I’m typing this from there.<\/i><\/p>\n One final note: why do so many recent console games have such bad tearing? I’ve been looking forward to Switchball (now available on XBox Live) since I saw it at the IGF (2 years ago?), and I was ready to pay the 800 MS points, but the tearing in the demo turned me off instantly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Gas Powered Games have released a patch that removes the SecuROM copy protection crap from Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance. The game was released this week, so the patch has taken less than 4 days to arrive. Another game to add … Continue reading