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...PlayStation2 is being launched into the most competitive gaming environment ever. Sony is locked in a high-stakes platform war with Microsoft, Sega and Nintendo to lay claim to electronic outposts in living rooms worldwide. Right now the fight is over who will cater to the virtual sniper-attack and dune-buggy needs of legions of young gamers. But before long, these companies are betting, game consoles like PlayStation2 will become broad-ranging digital home entertainment centers used by everyone for everything from music playing to video watching. Still, the corporate battle for digital dominance in the years ahead will...
...Emotion Engine) is a big step up from the original PlayStation's 32 bits. That means the new units can play CDs and DVDs, and can accommodate add-ons for broadband Internet, digital cameras and digital music players. No modem is included with PS2, which puts it behind Sega's Internet-ready Dreamcast. But PS2 does have one feature parents will appreciate: it is backward compatible, meaning it can play the original PlayStation's 800 existing games...
...early word on the playing experience--outside of Sony's launch party--is not particularly enthusiastic. "There is nothing on the PS2 that I've seen that gave me that jaw-dropping feeling I got with the Sega Dreamcast last year," says Dan Clark, 29, CEO of a New Hampshire credit union and an active gamer. Madden NFL 2001 is good, he says, but no better than games currently available on Dreamcast...
...talking to her. I'm talking to Seaman, the hideous, fussy, cranky, mopey creature on my TV screen. My wife is beginning to suspect that I'm having an affair with it. I'm not sure she's wrong. Seaman ($49.95) is a truly bizarre new game for Dreamcast, Sega's plucky, we're-not-PlayStation home-gaming console--but I use the term game loosely...
Meanwhile, Dreamcast refuses to lie down and die. Not only is Sega about to start offering the hardware for free--provided you sign up for the $20-a-month online gaming zone Sega Net--but its catalog of games keeps going from strength to strength. Joining must-haves like Soul Calibur and Crazy Taxi at the show was the epic role-playing Shenmue, whose lovingly rendered hyper-realistic environment surpasses anything yet available for PlayStation 2. Throw in positive feedback for the Microsoft X-box and early buzz about the Nintendo Dolphin, and there is good reason for Sony...