
Genre: Fantasy Action Adventure
Release Nov 14, 2006 (more)
Players: 1 Player (tech info)
The intriguing breakthrough of the install option in Genji: Days Of The Blade's menu, the first Ps3 finalized title, which was ascribed to Stephen Totilo (mostly known for his little sessions on MTV News) on the occasion of Sony's Gamer's Day show, raises some questions.
First of all, the game suffers from the load times "malady", which is extremely annoying. Therefore the necessity of temporarily forgoing the endless debates regarding the reading speed-2x for the Blu-ray units and 12x for the DVD ones- goes without saying. But are we really talking about an isolated case or will the future games benefit from the inclusion of a hard disk, as a standard endowment?
Totilo needed to specify: "Also unexpected was a feature in Genji to install the game, committing 4GB of data from the game's Blu-ray disc to the PS3's hard drive - a three-minute one-time-only procedure available from the game's start menu that a Sony rep said cuts down in-game load times from about 15 to 4 seconds."



