rob the slob
09-14-2006, 04:12 PM
Speaking of online play, Tony Hawk's Project 8 is built with full online capabilities for Xbox 360, including support of Live, classic two-player challenges, a new game called Walls (which plays like Snake or Tron), and up to eight-player online games. But Project 8 is not online for PlayStation 3. Not online for PS3. Only within the last three weeks has Neversoft received its PS3 beta kits, a black horizontal box about one foot wide by two feet long and two inches deep, with a slew of buttons and dials on its front deck. Neversoft is confident the PS3 version of the game will ship at launch in November, but it still hasn't received all of the software libraries and has no indication of how the online components will work on PS3, so it's not offering them. For a software company that's always supported the PlayStation system and was, in fact, the first developer to offer online play on PS2 with Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3, that's saying something. Neversoft wouldn't explain any further, but it's clear to this reporter that if Neversoft could go online with the PS3 version, it would. Neversoft General Manager Scott Pease explained, however, that the PlayStation 3 version would have special things not offered in the Xbox 360 version. He wouldn't list details, but the special additions might be cameo appearances by special celebrities or additional modes of play. We saw (but did not play) the PS3 version in motion and yes, even now it looks very much like the Xbox 360 version. Neversoft said the visuals on both games will look nearly identical.
http://uk.ps3.ign.com/articles/732/732680p1.html
http://uk.ps3.ign.com/articles/732/732680p1.html