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Q3 2009 gaming report – PS2, PSP and PC
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With the PS3 and Xbox 360 helped along by exclusive content and Wii and DS hooking up a variety of quality titles the story for the PSP, PS2 and PC is varied. For the PSP the story is hope; the PS2 is memoriam; the PC pretty hot. To wrap up Q3 of 2009 lets take a look at these systems and how they managed …
PlayStation Portable (PSP) – The quarterly outlook for PSP has been bare in recent months. We are talking about 1, maybe 2 titles of note every three months not including the multi-console releases. This quarter there were three great titles; one superb port and one download of note for this gamer.
- SoulCalibur: Broken Destiny – Not a direct port of IV but rather an excellent handheld with Kratos fitting in perfectly. One of the best PSP titles period.
- Dissidia: Final Fantasy – Another of the best titles on PSP that feels like Kingdom Hearts skinned with Final Fantasy I-X. The story drives what is a deep and unique fighting game, not just a skinned Street Fighter clone.
- Gran Turismo – GT with hundreds of cars and tons of tracks on PSP that looks great and is reason enough to own a PSP. Hours of tuning not to mention racing await.
- Disgaea 2: Dark Hero Days – Add in some bonus content on top of what’s classic Disgaea from the PS2 era and NIS has provide yet another hours drain on PSP gamers, a good thing.
- Fate/unlimited codes – Downloadable; yes. Niche, Japanese (anime) based fighter; yes. Great game for the PSP Go, fighting game fans; 100% yes.
Honorable Mention – A racer and a horror.
- MotorStorm Arctic Edge – A decent racer, perfect for the commute of killing time.
- Obscure: The Aftermath – A sequel of sorts that fills in the gaps well and begins like a teen slasher/mystery flick. Silent Hill (the good ones) lite.
Incomplete – Shin Megami Tensei: Persona, it loses the magic of the PS2 must haves, a game that just misses on such a spectacular franchise.
PlayStation 2 – Mana Khemia 2: Fall of Alchemy marks the end of the PS2 in this review. Next time PSP will be included with DS … or not at all since it will be mostly download for the Go.
PC – Not a PC gaming category but seeing what a console gamer notices can be telling. The PC saw a great number of quality releases, not just add-on’s and expansions.
- Aion: Tower of Eternity – Beautiful and epic. No, not a WoW killer but a great game that lives on its own excellent merits.
- Order of War – Square Enix is expanding with some PC love not of the J-RPG genre but rather RTS war based. Good times.
- Section 8 – Making a note, have not played but read good things so passing along.
- The Secret of Monkey Island – Classic revamped, updated.
- ARMA II – Ditto from Section 8.
Overall Grades – PSP clocks in with an A, just a solid offering for a starving, beast of a system. PS2 gets a flat-line, can’t give a grade to the deceased. PC, from a console gamers perspective has to get an A also, just impressive.
So that wraps another quarter of looks at how each system fared. If this quarter is any indication it’s going to be one heck of a great holiday season. There is more of everything to come in the next month, so keep an eye out and prepare to make some tough purchase decisions this holiday season, it’s a good thing.
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