Sunday, July 17, 2005

Region Encoded Games After All?

- The new issue of GameInformer magazine (#148 August 2005) has a small news snippet that says despite Sony's claims of only having region encoding on movies and not games, (allowing JAP titles to be played on a USA PSP for example,) new games will be implementing this feature, including Rockstar's port of Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition.
- incidentally, a review for the game comes later in the same issue with a score of 8 and a second opinion of 9. The game would have scored higher since it is a near perfect port of a PS2 game they rated 9.5 earlier, but the load times are said to be totally awful, (they quote over a minute just to play a race which takes about two to play.)
- Other reviews that issue are for the following:

* Dead To Rights: Reckoning 6.5 and 5.25
* Coded Arms 6.75 and 6.5

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