Customer Reviews

The Secrets of Play Station 2

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A friend of mine told me about a radio show that had an interview with this 'gaming insider', in which she made the following statements that make this book a big waste of time, especially with much better free resources.

1. In the interview, she states that the PS2 is the first system to enable online play. This is wrong, the Genesis was the first console system to enable online play, and after that, is the Dreamcast, recent system with blazing fast online play with best-selling games like NFL2K1, Quake 3 Arena and Unreal Tournament.

2. She states that best-selling PlayStation title, Driver, is 'boring' because all you do is 'drive around' and that she would rather play Centipede.

3. She recommends that Age of Empires 2 will be the best-selling PS2 game, because it will "really get the young audience, because it allows you to build your own renaissance town how you want, kill people with swords, and rape and pillage to your heart's content!" She disregards obvious answers like SSX, Metal Gear Solid 2 and Madden 2001.

4. Finally, she says that the system's price will drop in around two months and in two years, it could cost $99. This is stupid, especially because of the enormous demand for the system. The system will remain at a higher price for around a year, if not longer.

The book itself is just a collection of generalizations, obvious recommendations and weak stat packing. This is just a cash-in on the PS2 hype.

As you may have read in several of the other reviews, this book is nothing more than a rehash of specs that are easily (and freely) obtained from the Sony website. The author spends half of the book gabbing about the wonders this system will do (she thinks-I doubt she has one), instead of attempting to answer valid questions, like how well the DVD functionality performs. I knew I'd made a poor decision when I first saw the cover of the book, with the author's name and her supposed status as a "PSX Guru". Puhlease! Do not buy this book.

::shakes head:: my god, what was anyone involved in this book thinking . . .

::shakes head::

This book was informative about the new Sony Playstation 2. Although it did lack great detail it was still informative and got the major ideas across. There could have been more information about the systems specs and its speed. They do not show the PS2 as the super computer that it is. They portray it as a gaming console. The book itself is put together in a professional fashion though drags on about off the subject material. It is one of the very few books about the PS2 and overall I am fairly satisfied with it. It is a must buy for PS2 users all around the country!

The book does have some interesting/useful information. Nothing truly surprising or unbelievable, however it is very useful, and has a lot of cool ideas! It is definately worth the price!

if you dug the first playstation, this book gives you the inside information on the new machine--and it's a lot cheaper than the machine --plus it has a web directory of related sites.reasonably thorough look at the new machine

i like this book because it's a good summary of all the details about the machine; all the new games and all the other features of the machine. Concise and reasonable.

cant find the machine, so the book will have to do..plenty of info and a lot cheaper than the PSX!