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(More customer reviews)I recently came back from summer vacation and I have to tell you it was quite exciting.Not only did I get to visit a long time friend, but I found out he had imported a japanese ps2.For over a year I've been waiting to play this system, to see what all the hype was about and out ofthe blue came my opportunity.During my short stay there I only had achance to play three games.He bought the imported version of Tekken TagTournament, and rented Dead or Alive 2 and Ridge Racer V ......... First off, I'd like to say that I own a Dreamcast and aPlaystation and I'm not biased in any way.We all share pros and cons forour systems and the ps2 has its share.
The games I played were aboutaverage, I'm not really into Tekken, but Ridge Racer V was great fun.Sofar the graphics are on par if not a tad better then the Dreamcast.Truethe games we played did have an AA issues, but then again, so do mostDreamcast games (Virtua Tennis-just look at the net, NFL2k2-any cinematicview, being picky isn't it? same deal).I wouldn't even consider the AAproblem a problem because the problem was in hasted programming.I believethat if Namco had more time, the games would have seemed more polished. Now don't get me wrong, the graphics were great and the games were fun, butI don't believe anyone has really dug deep into the potential of the ps2.That is, until he showed me the Metal Gear Solid 2 DVD video trailer. Anyone who got to see this video will instantly be shocked at the fluidmotion and amount of detail.Now this is what I'm talking about!this isthe future of what the ps2 can handle. This looks revolutionary, this iswhat people have been waiting for.Then it occured to me. One, the ps2is still in its infancy, we all can't expect revolutionary games from theget go, what are we supposed to expect? The developers need time to learnthe programming tools for the system.Look at history, the JapaneseDreamcast launch was a joke, Pen Pen Triathoon, Godzilla anyone?At leastthe ps2 launch in Japan was better then the DC launch.Now look at howsuccesful the American launch for the DC was.Ummmhhmmm, trust me theAmerican ps2 launch will be great.I believe that the ps2 will be justlike the playstation, with way better graphics, and way more options.Iconsider the ability for the ps2 to play DVD's icing on the cake.Thepicture and sound quality are just as good as any $400 player.And in thefuture when they relase games on DVD, not only will the graphics and soundquality increase, but so will the storage capacity since a dual layered DVDcan hold3.25 gb.And in the future when sony releases it's hard-drivemodem then we'll be able to play games with broadband and download gamesand movies all onto the hard drive.In closing all I have to say is don'tbuy into the negative hype, I like the Dreamcast and unlike my otherDreamcast owners I choose to like the ps2 also, instead of trying tocritisize it.The future looks bright for Sony, [release day] will be a greatday for me.
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