GripShift Hits PS3
One of the most underrated PSP games is getting a second chance as a PS3 download.
Published: January 5, 2007
Back in March of 2006, Phil Harrison stood before a sea of developers and a smattering of press folk (and pretend press folk like us) and outlined what Sony was calling the e-Distribution Initiative, their plans for a download service that would encompass the PSP and, when it finally hit the PlayStation 3. The idea was to foster projects not only from Sony's on internal studios, but from up-and-coming indie developers too.
True to their word, the PS3 arrived with a handful of online offerings, including one of Sony Online Entertainment's first side projects, the decidedly fugly and oft-renamed Cash Guns Chaos, a handful of demos from Sony Computer Entertainment's worldwide studios like the download-only Blast Factor, as well as snippets of traditional disc-based games like NBA 07 and Resistance.
Since then, the PlayStation Store has received an impressive number of new offerings, including PS one games and new demos. In Japan, games like Tekken 5 have already started hitting the network, but here in the States, we're still waiting for something a little more substantial. Or, uh, were waiting, as SOE has finally given the go-ahead to push out GripShift and updated and remixed version of the PSP game nobody seemed to notice.
Like the portable little brother, the game was developed by Australian dev house Sidhe Interactive, and comes in both full download and demo flavors. Dropping $9.99 gets you more than 125 levels (in PSP remix and new flavors), 25 race tracks for multiplayer and a bigger soundtrack with remixes of the admittedly quite tasty electronica PSP soundtrack plus some new tunes. Along the way from PSP to PS3, the game has gotten a serious visual facelift, jumping to full 1080p and now running at 60 frames a second. Hooray!
The game is up on the PlayStation Store now (and we've got HD videos and screens to pour over on [ps3media=164]the media page[/ps3media]), so if you've got a PS3, make sure you at least check out the demo, and if you've got the scratch, make sure you toss the $10 Sidhe's way; they deserve it.
True to their word, the PS3 arrived with a handful of online offerings, including one of Sony Online Entertainment's first side projects, the decidedly fugly and oft-renamed Cash Guns Chaos, a handful of demos from Sony Computer Entertainment's worldwide studios like the download-only Blast Factor, as well as snippets of traditional disc-based games like NBA 07 and Resistance.
Since then, the PlayStation Store has received an impressive number of new offerings, including PS one games and new demos. In Japan, games like Tekken 5 have already started hitting the network, but here in the States, we're still waiting for something a little more substantial. Or, uh, were waiting, as SOE has finally given the go-ahead to push out GripShift and updated and remixed version of the PSP game nobody seemed to notice.
Like the portable little brother, the game was developed by Australian dev house Sidhe Interactive, and comes in both full download and demo flavors. Dropping $9.99 gets you more than 125 levels (in PSP remix and new flavors), 25 race tracks for multiplayer and a bigger soundtrack with remixes of the admittedly quite tasty electronica PSP soundtrack plus some new tunes. Along the way from PSP to PS3, the game has gotten a serious visual facelift, jumping to full 1080p and now running at 60 frames a second. Hooray!
The game is up on the PlayStation Store now (and we've got HD videos and screens to pour over on [ps3media=164]the media page[/ps3media]), so if you've got a PS3, make sure you at least check out the demo, and if you've got the scratch, make sure you toss the $10 Sidhe's way; they deserve it.