The 11 Best PS3 Games (Page 3 of 7)
- December 21, 2007 11:31 AM PST
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8. MotorStorm
Whether developer Evolution Studios has cracked the seal on the PS3's potential or completely tapped the system for all it's worth, we don't know, and frankly we don't care because this is one of the best looking and performing console games yet.
MotorStorm is about speed and smashing, but the game isn't the fastest around, nor does it cause the biggest pileups like, say, the Burnout series. What it does do is pair the speed and carnage together wonderfully. Don't think for a second that MotorStorm is all brawn and no brains, though: It takes a good deal of strategy to compete in the more difficult races.
If racing is the cake of MotorStorm, crashing is definitely the icing. The effect it has on the race aside, there are few things more rewarding than watching your vehicle blow up into hundreds of pieces. Better yet, you can pause during a crash and rotate/zoom the camera to view the carnage up close. Smashing
Simply put, MotorStorm is a visual triumph. The game's realistic graphics offer a tantalizing glimpse of what the PS3 may be capable of a year or two down the road.
7. Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection Online
Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection is one hell of fighting game, and without question the best in the series.
A few months ago the GamePro staff began to engage in lunch-hour battles. It started out innocently enough, with a few of the GamePro.com web programmers picking up controllers and button-mashing their way to victory. Some of us laughed at them.
Flash forward to three weeks later. Between eight and ten GamePro editors, GP.com developers, and interns crowded into our tiny game room every single day for a full hour of screaming Tekken matches. Rivalries were born. Legends were created. Dynasties fell. It was intense, it was epic, and it was some of the most fun we've ever had as gamera. And so, over the course of the next six months, the Tekken lunchroom battles took over the entire GamePro offices. We never missed a day.
The original release of Tekken 5: DR is actually one of the deepest, most balanced, and just plain fun fighting games of all time. And now it's got an online mode and for less than $30, it's a dang good deal.
