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Far Cry 3 And The Stranger In A Strange Land Designer Stephane Perruchon has always liked the DualShock controller’s design, its “excellent ergonomics”.
While the PS3 is already pretty friendly to most mouse and keyboard setups, the XFPS Rate Up Adaptor (formerly just for the Xbox 360) is a peripheral that allows you to remap SIXAXIS controls to your stubborn PC ways of old and control any game as you would a computer title. It’s completely plug and play and supports 95% of keyboards and mice on the market. Wait, we just read this thing is $US 100. Seriously? Maybe you could justify the purchase when combined with a backward compatible PS3 that could add mouse control to PS2 titles. But we’re betting that $US 100 would probably look better sitting somewhere inside your PC.
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Anyone else kinda miffed Sony went with their “old” design for the Sixaxis? I was. I liked the look of the boomerang controller! If you’re like me and wonder what using one would be like, you could do worse things than try this. If you can ever find one, that is. Spotted by Gizmodo in the seedy underbelly of CES, it’s a dodgy Chinese PS3 controller that’s taking the unique approach of knocking-off an unreleased prototype, rather than the final product. Which should at least get them some points for originality. A Knock-Off of the PS3 Controller Nobody Wanted [Gizmodo]
The Wii is all about motion control. To get all French, it’s the system’s raison d’etre. Which makes this product, allowing non-waggling Dualshocks to be used on the system, a strange one. Almost as strange as packaging that features a saucy Wii…fairy godmother, I think, and a PaRappa cosplayer riding a Dualshock controller cord like a witche’s broom. Almost. Wiiã§PS2用アナãƒã‚°ã‚³ãƒ³ãƒˆãƒãƒ¼ãƒ©ãƒ¼ã‚’使ã£ã¡ã‚ƒãŠã†! 変æ›ã‚¢ãƒ€ãƒ—タ「マジカルウィーã€[Game Watch]
Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction is fun, plain and simple. I got a hands on play session — which meant hands on the new DUALSHOCK3 — and had an absolute blast going through the demo level. The action is all there, everything looks as close to Pixar animation is we’ve seen in a new-gen game, and the controller rrrrrrumbles like it should!
Even though we only get to try out one level, it does offer a nice variety of play styles that I imagine is representative of what you’ll end up doing throughout the game. Regular 3rd perspective action, jumping high, really high, to new level areas, overhead perspective — with great animation, although you have no control — some good grinding, and then even a short nod to the SIXAXIS as you freefall and need to avoid hitting speeding vehicles. It’s what we want from a Ratchet game, with just the right amount of newness, and shine, to prevent it from feeling stale.
newVideoPlayer("DualShock3_gawker.flv", 475, 376); I wonder if Kaz called EA and was like, “What the fuck, guys? I mean, what the fuck?”
Just played some Devil May Cry 4 on PS3, and two things struck me. The first? Despite a sign advertising the fact I was holding a DUALSHOCK 3, I was not holding a DUALSHOCK 3. It was a SIXAXIS. Disappointing! Second thing was that this game is gorgeous. But old-fashioned. Quaint, even. Best way to sum it up is that, despite the fact he’s barely in it, it’s just like Dante. Been around for a while, appeals (dependably) to a certain gaming demographic and is very, very, very pretty.
I just came back from playing around with the new rumblerific DUALSHOCK 3 controller.
It’s funny how you don’t realise how much you miss a thing sometimes until it returns. I knew that shooters on the PS3 sometimes felt a little off, but I typically adjusted pretty quickly and it didn’t bother me.
But playing through a new level of Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune (pure awesomeness) with vibration on, I realised just how much I missed the vibration of a machine gun or occasional kick of a handgun. The vibration is nothing special, nothing that you haven’t always had in the Xbox 360 controller, but it sure is nice that Sony has finally gotten with the times.
As you can tell from my pics, one crisp, one not so much, the only external difference is the appearance of the words “DUALSHOCK 3″ on the front edge of the controller.
I also noticed that the controller now has a much more solid feel. Before the PS3 controller felt hollow, almost toy-like, now it has the heft of the Xbox 360 controller but in a seemingly slightly smaller, more compact package.
Sony has officially announced one of its worst kept secrets, the vibrating SIXAXIS controller for the PLAYSTATION 3 known as the DualShock 3. Also announced at TGS was that a number of PS3 games already support the new controller and that already released titles, such as MotorStorm, Resistance: Fall of Man and Warhawk, would be compatible with the accessory after a software update. Hit the jump for a list of the games confirmed to support the DUALSHOCK 3.
