The Shrine

It hit today on the UK's PSN (in addition to halo wars on the ol 306). I downloaded it and gave it a spin. It looks great and definitely has a bit of a spacey COD4 vibe to it. However, my gripes with the PS3 controller continue. After being spoiled with the 360 controller, it just feels too loose and inaccurate. The game has a cool cover system, but in order to shoot accurately out of it, you must press and hold the crouch button (R2) hold up on the analog, and either tap the right analog to hit the iron sights (or for an alternate configuration that I was using you had to hold the R1 button), and finally you must hit the L1 button to shoot. It was pretty retarded. It would have been much simpler to have the crouch button used to toggle being in and out of cover, and then having the option of sticking your head out and then hitting the iron sights, or just holding your zoom button (not having to press up on the analog and then zoom) to pop out. Anyways, other than that annoyance, the game played fairly well (maybe I just have to fiddle around with the sensitivity on the controller, I don't know) and looked spectacular. I hope it holds up to the mountains of internet hype that I have been subjected to on the internet.

Apparently the multiplayer has a mode where the objectives seamlessly change from one to another as you complete them. That sounds pretty cool. Any of the PS3 owning members thinking of picking up this possible gem?

KZ2 has been totally off my radar and it has nothing to do with it being a PS3 exclusive. I just can't get it up for another FPS right now. I'll download the demo whenever it's available to us (why the fuck is it just up in the UK?).