As final PlayStation 3 units continue to trickle into more and more hands, additional details about how the system works and what it can and can't do are hitting the web. The latest (rather major) tidbit is how the console treats the upscaling and downscaling of 720p titles on televisions that don't support that resolution -- specifically those that are only 1080i capable.
As it turns out, gamers who own older HD sets that feature only 480i, 480p, and 1080i resolution input capabilities will have to settle for the display quality being downsized as the game boots in its 480p mode rather than upscaling the image from its more desirable 720p mode to the TV's 1080i. IGN tested this development on older HDTV sets with games designed for 720p but not 1080i -- Resistance: Fall of Man, NHL 2K7, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07, and Need for Speed Carbon. Sure enough, the system downshifted all four titles to 480p rather than moving up to 1080i.
The PlayStation 3's competitor, Microsoft's Xbox 360, does upscale 720p games to 1080i if the HD set supports the latter resolution but not the in-between and commonly-employed 720p resolution.
After nearly three decades of NFS games, here's a list of the best Need For Speed titles that have ever been released in the past years, ranked by The Nerd Stash.
Best NFS in my personal opinion
Highstakes, Hotpursuit 2 and Underground, Mostwanted, The Run.
Rest of those titles are Junk,Crap, disappointing.
Neil writes: "It was about this time last week when all Xbox One and Xbox 360 gamers were being treated to a pretty nifty sale that contained a whole host of EA discounts. But that was last week, and this is now, so what do we have in store with the Xbox Live Deals With Gold and Spotlight Sale for 27th Feb - 5th March 2018? How does this lot sound to you?"
NFL Blitz, is actually want to play that. Is there anyway to get in in PAL regions?
Buy yourself some US Xbox Credit (many different sites online do this including Amazon), change your system location to US, redeem the code for credit, buy NFL Blitz and then download, switch back to your region and you'll have the game available to play :) Enjoy!
Good to see tower of guns in there , that was an odd little game bu it was good to chuck on every now and then, recently got Shadow warrior through gold, never played it first time around game is awesome,, old school doom feel and dick jokes a plenty
We take a look at the Need for Speed games and pick out the Top 5 from the series.
Best: Need For Speed Hot Pursuit 2 for PS2. This is the best one, not your listed. I have played both PC and PS2 versions of this video game and this is far superior, thanks to Black Box developer. They took the game and redesigned it beautifully for PS2. Heck if you have played NFS:Rivals, you have seen a racing track that resembles to desert track of HP2; (airplane, shortcuts, desert...)
This is not fanboyism. I have played other games in the series and none of them don't give me that feeling of upspike challenges and adrenaline. In this game, you can't be certain for the top spot until the very end line of the race. Did you know that you can record and rewatch the race again? How about that to drive a Mercedes CLK-GTR into top spot; that is hardest one.
My first "Submission"! Go me!
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wow, you beat me by 30 seconds.... I posted this article and then realised you did.
again sonys getting busted! good post ElementX ;D
how has sony ever made money?
there are a lot of news being posted for PS3 by XBOX fans. it doesn't add up. Why are they searching for PS3 news, if they don't like sony. BASHERS! lol