For those that may be unfamiliar… Don’t assume your ps3 will open ports for voice chat using UPNP. It doesn’t seem to work very well.

If your PS3 is behind a router make sure you set the PS3’s ip address manually to be the same as your router’s DMZ. This probably sounds confusing to those that don’t know what I’m talking about but if you google “PS3 DMZ” you’ll find some detailed advice.

‘guess I’ve been spoilt.

StrangleHold is the only demo (with HS) in a long while that I actually cared to play to the end. But the framerate wasn’t so good, and the action was already getting repetitive/stale in the demo. Might be worth picking up once it hits the bargain bin, but full price? nope.

However, the single player game in Resistance is amazing.

Hachi, I definitely agree regarding HS. I’ve only played a little, but so far the full game is much better than I expected from playing the demo.

Resistance — needs Online co-op mode (for sure!).

GRAW2 — (I’ve played this quite a bit lately). What it needs are much, much more maps that are in Campaign-mode. As it stands, there are like maybe 5 maps in Campaign, and the rest (lots) are in other modes like Recon, Kill everyone, etc. Although, having all those maps in multiplayer are great, the most glaring problem with this game is that, there are a finite number of enemies per map (40?), and once you’ve killed them all, it doesn’t matter if you are set on Recon mode or any other objectives set; the game ends when all enemies are killed. They should allow for regeneration of enemies, if your other objectives are not met.
As it is, we (me plus my 3 online friends) can finish a map in around 5-8mins!!!
This is on the ‘Hard’ setting, but no Helicopters.
So, at 5mins per map, it doesn’t take long before we’re done all the maps in the game, although there are a lot. Regenerating enemies in Recon mode is all I ask for. That would make each game last 20-30mins probably, which would really rock.

Heavenly Sword — I must say, this game is much better than the demo would suggest. I didn’t have much hope, until I actually played it for real. It’s awesome, but…
This game has a weird “rushed” pacing to it. Not quite sure how to pinpoint it, but every segment in the game feels like I’m being rushed through it. Unlike GoW, where it’s a more relaxed story pace, but still kicking the same amount of a$$. If they fix this “rushed pacing”, the game would definitely not feel as short. My other non-serious gripes are that Nariko should not be so angry all the time. They should make her more “cute” or perhaps softer around the edges (kinda Lara Croft style). Oh, and is it just me, or do the quirky mini-bosses remind you of MGS? hahaha

Derrick, I have flawless sound quality in Resistance and other online games I’ve played on PS3, yet Warhawk still sounds awful.

Anyway, i don’t want to start another Warhawk debate, my opinion hasn’t changed from my ‘controversial’ post.

My ISP has hella lot of packet loss at times and when it does I can not understand anything said on the mic…..But my friend has DSL through Verizon and there is no packet loss and its clear as a bell, even when it comes through the tv.

It’s one of those games that really needs a wheel.