World of Games

PS2/can’t read disc

Does anyone have any idea why our ps2 just stopped reading the disc’s? We have to fight with it to even read the disc to watch a movie. Is it just on it’s last leg? Can’t afford the ps3 yet so should we just get another ps2?

- Ah, the dreaded DRE. For the PS2, it’s like the Xbox’s Red Ring of Death. Sometimes it starts with one kind of disc, and allows you to read others, like it stops reading PS1, but plays PS2 fine, or vice versa. Inevitably, it will end up not reading anything. It’s a matter of when, not if. This is a well known problem with them, however, and Sony has been really good about it, even out of warranty for a lot of people (including me). First, call them up and go through the troubleshooting steps the tech takes you through. It’s possible that you will be offered a free repair (not including shipping it to them). At the very least, they will quote you a repair cost. In some cases, though, it’s cheaper to buy a used replacement or a PS2 slim, which supposedly doesn’t suffer from that problem. In any case, don’t assume they won’t help you out. It’s definitely worth calling Sony support before dropping the cash on a new one.

Tiger Woods 07 help

Does anyone have any clues on setting up two players with two controllers in Tiger Woods 07? We seem to be able to play two players with two controllers as long as one of us plays as Tiger, the last time we tried we were successful at using our own profiles but it wouldn’t let us change the controller number so we could use two. We ended up having to share a
controller. The instructions that come with the game leave a lot to the imagination. I know someone said the game was a bit quirky but I’m thinking we are just not doing something right. I’ve looked for some online instructions for setting up a two player game but I’m not having much luck finding them.

Metal Gear Solid 4 Demo

At the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Sony had a special visitor at its booth as Konami was on hand to show off a playable demo of Metal Gear Solid 4. This is the same demo that was on display during the 2007 E for All expo in Los Angeles, so there weren’t too many revelations made during our demonstration, however, we were able to get some hands on time with the game and many of our worries were put to rest.

One of the features found in Metal Gear Solid 4 is that the game is fully compliant with the new Dual Shock 3 controller, so we were able to feel every shot that we fired and every bullet that hit us in the game, and this could be a solid indication that Sony is back on track with the force feedback functionality that it’s current home console is missing.

Another thing that we noticed is that the game looks absolutely stunning. Everything is rendered in fine detail from the war-torn middle-eastern city that the level took place in, right down to the individual hairs on Snake’s ‘stache. When we asked whether or not the game will be able to run at 60 fps at 1080p, Konami said that things were still being optimized and they can’t promise anything, things were on the right track.

Though Kojima Productions and Konami aren’t ready to announce a final release date, they did mention to us that we should hear that announcement in late February. As soon as Konami formally announces a date for MGS 4, we’ll be sure to let you know, but until then, expect Solid Snake’s latest adventure to arrive sometime during Q2, 2008.

New Games

I just picked up 2 new games this weekend. THe first was Splashdown Rides gone wild. This is an incredible game. The water graphics are like REAL! The tricks have been upgraded from the last version and look cool. The only drawback I feel is that you have to do tricks to go faster than with out doing them to fill up your meter. Also its only 40 bucks. But I got a pre-owned at 36 plus my EB discount went down to 27 plus tax.

The other game is Chaos Legion. It is nothing like Legion the legend of excalibur. This game is made by the makers of the devil may cry (I think only the first one…maby not). Anyone else pick this game up. I bought it new but I had to trade in my copy of contra (it had been scratched very badly and they sold it to me «new»). This game is so fluid yet I have only played the first 3 levels and have died a few times. ITs is so freakin hard sometimes. Now i figured out why you can actually use the items you picked up (very confusing as the tutorial doesn’t tell you how and I should have read the book and looked like a dork before playing the game). I think this will take a few play throughs to get down everything and kick serious tail also there are multiple legions you can level up so you can have 5 sword men beside you fighting with all leveled up stats and all. I think it is a great game I have been waiting for it to come out
I read reviews and I picked it up and it lives up to my expectations.