Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune Reviewed
A 400-year-old clue in the coffin of Sir Francis Drake sets a modern-day fortune hunter on an exploration for the fabled treasure of El Dorado, leading to the discovery of a forgotten island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. The search turns deadly when Nathan Drake becomes stranded on the island and hunted by mercenaries. Outnumbered and outgunned, Drake and his companions must fight to survive as they begin to unravel the terrible secrets hidden on the Island. Here are a couple of updated reviews gathered from Metacritic.
IGN(91/100): The final sum is far greater than the individual parts. Maybe you don’t dig the combat or maybe the pop-in gets you down, but the overall package of an endearing story, outstanding score, great performances and fun gameplay should put this title on the top of your holiday wishlist.
EuroGamer(90/100): By starting with a great control and camera system, building on that with excellent combat and a wonderful spin on Ico’s platform adventuring, and then topping it off with a decent storyline, Naughty Dog has cooked up one of the most relentlessly entertaining, fat-free games to emerge in ages. Topped off with the most stunning use of the PS3’s underused technical prowess yet, Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune is, for my money, the first must-have PlayStation 3 title.
GameSpy(90/100): It might not have the running time of other titles on the market, but the leanness of the experience and time invested are fulfilling, plus the replay value is strong…In a sea of great first person shooters, you won’t get a better action game this year.
Microsoft’s Office Live Workspace Available
Microsoft is playing catch up with Google Docs and Zoho in releasing a beta version of Office Live Workspace. It is available to anyone with Windows Live ID. The catch is that you cannot edit your documents online but Live Workspace will let you save Office documents directly to the web from the installed Microsoft Office appplications Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. You can also preview the document online.
So what is the point in this when we have Google Docs? Other than it is a good collaboration tool. If Google add Google Gears to their Google Docs app for offline editing, Microsoft will find it difficult to compete.
Source: Microsoft Office Live Workspace
PS3 Will Get Blu-ray Profile 1.1
Sony will update the PS3 console with support for Blu-ray Disc Profile 1.1 this month.
In addition to picture-in-picture - used to enable video rather than audio-only commentaries, for example - Profile 1.1 adds support for secondary audio and video decoders. It requires a player to have at least 256MB of on-board memory.
Source: Sony exec confirms PS3 will get Blu-ray Profile 1.1 this month
Festive Slow Down
Wishing all of you Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. We will not be posting much during the festive season and will be back in mid January 2008. Browse through our current and past entries and thanks for your support. From all of us at NewTech.
Wii Supplies Dried Up
Nintendo pulls Wii ads for this festive season due to lack of supply. The ads will be replaced with DS handheld ads.
Nintendo executives said the Japanese company had thought its production schedule — about 1.8 million consoles a month — would be sufficient.
But because components have to be ordered five months in advance, they said, Nintendo can’t crank up output at its factories in China to meet the holiday shopper onslaught.
