Fast Draw Showdown Coming to PlayStation 3

When it comes to fast draw there’re only two types of people: the quick…and the dead! Now you have the chance to find out where you stand, or lie, as the case may be. Go up against the best quick draws in the business, including one of the world’s fastest, Wes Flowers. Unholster your PlayStation®Move motion controller and show’em all who the fastest draw really is.

One-by-one you’ll get to take out these vicious gunslingers, and start climbing the worldwide online Leaderboards. You can also bring a friend along to play ‘Quickdraw’ and ‘Showdown’ multiplayer modes and see which one of you really has the fastest hands in the west. As you begin to show the townspeople who the best in the west really is, you’ll be awarded with exclusive western clothing to outfit your PlayStation Home avatar.

Serious speed and awesome accuracy is needed to take on the best of these gunslingers…so get ready for some real fast draw action!

AceSpace Review

Space Ace was a very  unique game when it was introduced in 1983, it was actually released four months after Dragon’s Lair came out. And it was the second game at that time to offer full-motion video game.

Space Ace is a laserdisc original game from the 80’s directed by the legendary animator Donald Virgil Bluth. For the first time ever players can experience the stunning classical animation of Space Ace in true High Definition. In this game you play as a hapless hero named Ace who is on a quest to save his girfriend Kimberley who is kidnapped by the evil Commander Borf.

Since the original arcade, it has appeared on many devices including iPhone/iPod Touch to re-masterd DVD and Blu-ray editions, playable using your remote control. Now it’s come to the PlayStation 3 game system, and the important question is how does it play?

The dynamic is as simple as the original; you watch the animation which provides a visual clue and you interact to continue to the next clip or fail and see an alternative clip. On selecting play you are given three difficulty options: Cadet, Captain and Ace. These are basically the same, with you watching the animation play out and hit the correct buttons at the right time for the game to continue forward. Hit the wrong button or react too slowly and you are presented with a death sequence, or occasionally put on a slightly different path.

The differences are in that Cadet gives you added visual hints on which way or when to hit the appropriate action or direction keys by lighting those keys up. If you select Captain or Ace you must rely solely on the original flashes within the scenes themselves and memorise the sequences to succeed. From the option screen you are given two control layouts, either with the arrow keys around the edge of the screen, or with them in a d-pad arrangement in the bottom corner, both options have an action button too.

When playing the game in either mode, it is hard to be able to enjoy the scenes playing in front of you, because your eyes are too busy looking for the button you must hit first. As expected, this game is great but there are still many bugs to iron out. Occasionally, the character randomly flips back and forth between the older Ace and the younger Ace. Sometimes, in Cadet mode, the game forgets to give you the lit direction indicators when you are supposed to move the character, thus killing you.

Overall I’d give a 8/10. This game is fanstastic to watch and play. The only thing is, this game is incredibly short, I literally finished it on Cadet mode in about 40 minutes. I’m sure it will take longer on the other difficulty modes, but still, it was over way too quick. Don’t get me wrong, this version seems to look even better with sharper and more vibrant look than the original arcade version… It’s definetely worth a purchase if you’re a Dragon’s Lair fan. Ace Space is available in the PlayStation Store for $9.99.

Dragon Lair Review

This game used to frustrate my older brother like crazy back in the days, it used to be so fun watching him and his friends playing this game at the arcade. This game certainly brings back fond memories of noisy arcades with people crowded around this game completely blown away by what we were seeing: an interactive cartoon. Dragon’s Lair is a fantasy adventure where you play as Dirk the Daring in his quest to defeat the dragon Singe, but rescue the fair Princess Daphne in order to become victorious.

The PlayStation 3 version appears to be an perfect translation of the original. In this version, you also have the option of simply watching the gameplay out level by level instead of sitting down and playing it, so for those of you who never got to see all of the game or beat it, you can go in and watch it run from start to finish. In addition, it also comes in handy to watch each scene individually if you happen to get stuck on one. There is so much art and imagination in the game, although the gameplay is archaic there is something special about this game that has made it last longer than just 20 minutes. This version have also been remastered for high defintion and 5.1 sound, which makes the graphics and sound as crispy as ever, my only complaint is that sometmes the controls are unresponsive – otherwise it’s a fanstastic remake of the arcade original.

This game brought back some great memories of hanging out in the arcade with my brother and his friends. It was pretty groundbreaking at the time! Now this amazing game is available in the PlayStation Store for $9.99 and I have to say that this game is totally worth every penny. I never would have dreamed I could play this game in a game console and have it be just as good as the original.