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PS3's Lair Playable Via Remote On PSP
Next Generation has confirmed with Sony a rumor working its way through fan boards: Lair is playable via remote on the PSP. That is, you can load up the game on your PlayStation 3, and then actually play it on the PSP's small-but-beautiful screen. This is functionality that Sony has been hinting at since the PS3 was announced, but up until now remote play has been restricted to music and movies stored on the console. Kotaku notes in their writeup that you need to play through the tutorial first on the console proper if you want to do this. The PSP doesn't have the buttons the game uses to brake.
Holy shit does Lair kick ass.
Got my copy on Friday and am about halfway through - playing tons of the Warhawk online.
My god does the game look amazing on a big 1080p set. I've never seen anything like this before. The scale and amount of stuff going on is staggering.
The controls are very cool. Tilt left and right and your dragon turns that way. You have a range fire attack with one button, and an up close attack button where you go head to head with other dragons.
You can dash forward with a snap of the wrist or a 180 turn with a snap upwards. Nice additions to the normal flying controls. The 180 is great if you are getting attacked from behind, do a flip around and take out who is attacking you and then flip right back around.
There are sections where you move the controller to dodge something in a boss battle or shake the controller to damage or rip something appart. Very cool.
The soundtrack is absolutely amazing. It's easily big budget movie quality.
What is really cool about the game is it is designed to play missions over and over again getting better at them. And even just flying around looking at the amazing world.
The only negatives I'd say so far are the voice acting isn't up to the level of a game like Heavenly Sword and the various cuts to story elements can be a bit jarring.
A friend tried out the PSP remote play yesterday and says there it plays great but you obviously can't do all of the cool motion gestures, but just flying around is very cool.
I get the feeling that there are people who really fear this game. I suppose the fact that the PS3 can run a game that looks this good at 1080p and shows what a real next gen game's disc requirements are(25 gigs for Lair) make people feel their console is inferior and need to lash out.