Ripten Holiday Guide - Playstation 3 Edition

by Patrick Steen on December 18, 2007 at 9:50 pm

So you’re having yourself a Playstation 3 Christmas, and it’s my job to make it the best it can be, extending your extending your fun all the way through to next year. Here is my list of recommendations to make you yo ho ho into 2008.

1. Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune - This game is at the top of the list simply because this is THE game for your Playstation 3. Forget about your family and Christmas presents this year and put this baby in. I shall quote my review of the game:

Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune succeeds in so many ways. It has the best console graphics to date, gob-smackingly good cutscenes, a modest yet twisting plot, an incredible soundtrack, perfect pacing, and combat that you’ll want to keep returning to.

It’s a blockbuster for Christmas Day, to play after you’ve gorged yourself on Turkey and Yorkshire puddings.

2. Ratchet and Clank Future: Tools of Destruction - Yes it’s the time for games with subtitles. I blame Insomniac. They started it with their humorous Ratchet series, and have since damned the industry! Grrr. Anyway, they can be forgiven because they’re subtitles are always so humorous and riske.

Ratchet and Clank Future is a must buy this Christmas. Full of family fun and humor, but also with incredible depth for those of us who are gaming fanatics. We here at Ripten gave the game 9.8/10 and if that isn’t reason enough, then lets just say that Ratchet and Clank Future is the sh*t!

3. DualShock3 - Oh it’s about time. A rumbling Sixaxis to invigorate all of your games, from Ratchet to Warhawk. Oh so satisfying, and the little controller comes in bone-white.

There is a catch, it hasn’t yet released outside of Japan. Ruh Roh! You can, however, import the beauty at little cost. Sadly I doubt you’ll get it before Christmas.

4. Multiplayer Gaming - You’re going to need some multiplayer action to play with your family and friends over the holidays. I couldn’t bring myself to pick our of Warhawk and Call of Duty 4, so you’ll have to do the honor instead.

A new downloadable pack will be coming to Warhawk (link to review) next week, making its community even more invigorated and taking its action further up the ranks. It’s fun multiplayer goodness that you can play with up to 4 player split-screen while showing off your skills online or offline.

Call of Duty 4, the game of the moment. We gave it 9.8/10 at Ripten (link to review), and is a joy to play both alone or with company. It’s a good thing that the single player isn’t going to keep you too long, because I doubt people are going to want to sit around watching you play.

5. Party Gaming - Now there are other games for honorable mention of course: Heavenly Sword, Assassin’s Creed and lots of downloadable PSN games. But what you really need now is a party game.

If you’re in Europe you can do no better than Singstar on the PS3 and come up with some singing magic, buying all your favorite songs and making your own music videos with the PSEye Camera:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0V5LM1xmZmc

The PSEye is also a very good purchase for Christmas and is currently half price on Amazon.co.uk. If you do give it a shot there are plenty of innovative Eye games to buy off the Playstation Store, and the included Software is a sinch to use, and allows for some nifty stop motion animation:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z38pKQqrSiM

If you’re not lucky enough to live in old blighty then you’ll have to settle for Guitar Hero 3 or Rock Band, both of which are going to see you competing like crazy with your family and having a ball while you’re at it. Rock Band just gets the nod with us, but the more simply Guitar Hero 3 is just as satisfying.

And there you have it, have yourself a very merry Playstation 3 Christmas.

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