Newsflash: Hedgehogs still not faster than cars
Recently I took a trip to the Virgin Megastore on Buchannan Street, Glasgow. As always, I went to have a look at the games floor.
As soon as you step off the escalator, you find the small Xbox360 stand. It was surrounded by say 5 or 6 teenagers, all playing this driving game. It looked fantastic. The attention to detail was evident: from the small view movement on turns and bumps to the camera flashes in the crowd. Unfortunately I didn’t stay long enough to catch the name of the game - the PS3 stand beckoned!
Whilst I may have been programming on the console for months now (and now have an extra shiny 22″ HD display on my desk for it), I have never once played a game on it. So, when I turned to see a huge PS3 stand, seats included, I went to see what the lone player was playing.
Sonic the frakking Hedgehog.
Not only that, but a really bad looking Sonic. Every time the player jumped, the screen stuttered down to some 10-12 fps. It may as well have been 2D for how I saw it. Certainly not a very good first impression!
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April 15, 2007 at 2:49 pm
I loved the first proper 3D Sonic on the dreamcast, was awesome. These new versions don’t really seem to add much to that first 3D version, besides camera problems.