During the night at the Tokyo Game Show, Sony announced their new PlayStation 3 controller, the DUALSHOCK 3. Undoubtedly, their decision to bring out a DUALSHOCK enabled SIXAXIS was due to overwhelming demand from consumers (+1).
Phil Harrison once, 'famously' said: "Now, rumble I think was the last generation feature; it's not the next-generation feature.". Yes Phil, whatever you say...
The good news is that gamers 'upgrading' to a DUALSHOCK 3 SIXAXIS controller will get updates to let the best of their current games library work with rumble.
Let's have a look.
DUALSHOCK 3 Compatible titles:
The Darkness
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
Soldier of Fortune
BIOHAZARD® 5
Devil May Cry® 4
N-Cube
Warbit
Dark Sector
Turok
Highlander
Kane & Lynch: Dead Men
Burnout Paradise
FIFA franchise (title name TBD)
Legendary: The Box
To End All Wars
RAGE
WarDevil – Unleash the Beast Within
Dynasty Warriors 6
Fatal Inertia
METAL GEAR SOLID 4 GUNS OF THE PATRIOTS
Blacksite: Area 51
TNA Wrestling
Unreal Tournament 3
Wheelman
Cops (codename, title name TBD)
Planet One (codename, title name TBD)
Heroes over Europe
Condemned 2
Iron Man
The Club
The Crucible
The Incredible Hulk
Blast Factor (*1)
echochrome
Elefunk
Folklore (*1)
FORMULA ONE CHAMPIONSHIP EDITION (*1)
Go! Sports Ski (*1)
Heavenly Sword (*1)
High Velocity Bowling
MLB 08: The Show
MotorStorm (*1)
NBA 08 (*1)
PAIN
Rat Race
Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction
Resistance: Fall of Man (*1)
Snakeball
SOCOM: Confrontation
Super Stardust HD (*1)
TOY HOME
Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune
Warhawk (*1)
WipEout HD
GirpShift®
NBA 2K8 Take
Destroy All Humans 3
Stuntman Ignition
Assassin’s Creed
BEOWULF
HAZE
Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 (*1)
Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Vegas (*1)
Prototype Vivendi Games
The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena
*1 Users will be able to enjoy the rumble feature through software update. *2 Actual titles to be released may vary among countries and regions.
Existing games like Resistance: Fall of Man and MotorStorm really stand out that list, along with WarHawk, Super Stardust HD and Heavenly Sword. Future games Uncharted: Drakes Fortune, Devil May Cry, Metal Gear Solid 4 and Haze are clearly going to benefit from having DUALSHOCK. Fantastic. But... where is GT5 (Prologue) on that list?
Engadget managed to get themselves a hands on with the DUALSHOCK 3, see what they thought.
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