(Crisis Core)IGN Hands On = Soiled Pants
Think you’ve seen enough of the FFVII spinoffs? I thought I had, until I read IGN’s pretty crazy hands-on preview of the PSP’s FFVII: Crisis Core.
As the title of this post suggests, they were pretty blown away from the title overall. Tickets to Tokyo are a bit beyond our budget right now, so I can only hope to get this demo in my hands to decide for myself.
Anoop Gantayat’s comments (five times fast!) were pretty surprising, he had a hard time believing it was actually a PSP game at all. Technically, they found it more impressive than many PS2 games on the market.
Here’s part of what they had to say,
"Taken strictly on technical merits, Crisis Core is the most impressive PSP game I’ve ever played. In fact, with the PSP’s small screen providing an assist, I’d go so far as to say that Crisis Core looks better than most PS2 games out there.
During cinematic scenes, the character models are detailed and fully animated. Battles contain screens with double digit enemies, and giant bosses. All that, and full voice, wihtout any pauses for loading!
The Ifreet boss was particularly impressive. In addition to showing off gorgeous fire effects, with Ifreet himself engulfed in flames as he fights, at one point during the demo, Ifreet cast a full-motion-video based summon spell of his own. The game managed to switch into and out of the full motion video sequence without turning to a blank screen.
Crisis Core seems almost too technically sound to be a PSP game. It also appears to have some of the highest production values yet seen in a portable game. A trailer for the game shown in the Square Enix closed theater space had real time cinematic sequences featuring the likes of Cloud and Aerith, along with quality CG sequences."
Thanks a lot, IGN. I was perfectly happy being completely signed off to any FFVII spinoff.
Read the whole preview at IGN.com
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