PlayStation Home is a 3D virtual community for PlayStation 3 users, it's an interactive virtual space where users meet up, hang out, and explore a connected world. It's free of charge and is available from the cross media bar (XMB). PlayStation Home is a 3D virtual community for PlayStation 3 users, it's an interactive virtual space where users meet up, hang out, and explore a connected world. It's free of charge and is available from the cross media bar (XMB). Community a group of interacting organisms sharing an environment, a group of people sharing common interests, participation, and fellowship. A group of plants and animals living and interacting with one another in a specific region under relatively similar environmental conditions or a region occupied by a group of interacting organisms. Interacting is a kind of action that occurs as two or more objects have an effect upon one another.
PlayStation Home is in its open beta meaning that it isn't really the final version of Home but is still working out the kinks. I've had experienced some difficulties with Home when just entering it for the first time with the update. Once in you'll have to create your avatar that consists of three options presets, character, clothing, and load/save. Presets are exactly what you think they are with avatars already made for you. In the character option there is gender, structure, face, body shape, skin, hair, and makeup (female). With each section in the character option there will be in depth character sculpting still ultimately hard to recreate yourself in Home. You can tweak eye darkness, wrinkles, colour, the whole face structure, neck, mouth, cheeks, to body shape/height.
Once you're satisfied with that you can go into the clothing option to change/add headgear, hand accessories, torso, legs, feet, jewellery, or accessories in general. The avatars look good enough and in my opinion the best looking avatars around. Once you're done with the avatar you can save up to nine different avatar load outs.
You'll then pop into what I like to call your 3D profile since you can eventually upload if not already content from your HDD (Hard Drive Disk) to your own space. You can decorate your space in twelve categories picture frame, chairs, footstools, tables, storage, flooring, ornaments, cubes, lights, sofas, appliances, and wallpaper. Since this is a beta there are limitations to what you can do as of speaking right now so I'm hoping for more items available at launch. Of course you have a menu system that is a shape of some kind of PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) and not the PlayStation Portable, odd. The personal space is designed nicely but I'm guessing the bigger estates are a lot nicer.
The menu is in a list **** with personal, locations, friends list, clubs, alerts, game launching, communication, community, help, settings, and downloads. What I like about this is that you remain in the space while looking at your PDA to me it kind of adds to the immersion. What I also like is that you can download areas for the first time in the background while you do other things. Even though for the most part the PDA is like the XMB you can still pull up the XMB which is nice, completely giving you freedom.
In the Mall you can buy bigger spaces, clothing, furniture, and play with board games. Some of the store names consist of Home threads, Home estates, and Home Stuff that ultimately just describes what they offer instead of real world names. I like how you're able to purchase items in The Mall it's simple and easy even though I haven't bought anything yet. The Home Theatre is a small place that basically is setup like a real life theatre with seats displaying one single screen. The videos that are pushed into the space is the Twilight Trailer and the music video that pertains to the movie Twilight. I'm hoping that the actual launch will have a bigger theatre and would actually simulate a theatre building and not just the theatre itself. I just find it a little too small and would add to the realism in my opinion.
In the Central Plaza you can play a game called "Saucer Pop" where the object of the game is to collect items in a flying saucer while avoiding objects. You can sit down, dance, and is pretty much boring because - PlayStation Home is a 3D virtual community for PlayStation 3 users, it's an interactive virtual space where users meet up, hang out, and explore a connected world. It's free of charge and is available from the cross media bar (XMB) - sorry about that there must be a glitch in the system. Because there is nothing else to do but look at advertisements (laughs), in my opinion this is a good thing. I say that because Sony will be advertising in the right place as well getting money for advertising other companies' products. This is what will keep it free in my opinion and ads a sense of realism with all the real world elements. This place is mainly for socializing, yes that's right fellow gamers it's time to whip out those headsets, keypads, keyboards, or virtual keyboards because this is the heart of the application.
You're able to interact with other avatars through your avatar in two ways, prefixed text (quick right) or avatar animations (emotes). With the animations there are six categories greeting, conversation, celebration, disappointment, extra, and dance. The prefixed text consist of hello, goodbye, yes, no etc giving people quick responses if you're one of those anti-social gamers. The avatar movements consist of beckon, yawn, laugh, dismissive, pose, or robot with many other things to do. You have to give it to Sony for actually making use of the avatars unlike a company that everyone loves so. The saddest thing is that most people I've encountered have no headset and sometimes will add you randomly just to run away. Honestly, I hate the stereotype that gamers are anti-social and finally Sony comes out with a - PlayStation Home is a 3D virtual community for PlayStation 3 users, it's an interactive virtual space where users meet up, hang out, and explore a connected world. It's free of charge and is available from the cross media bar (XMB) - pathetic attempt to win over gamers' hearts with a Barbie simulator.
The Bowling Alley of course has bowling, pool tables, and arcade machines with games called Ice Breaker, Echochrome, and Carriage Return. Carriage Return you line up the carriages and make sure they arrive before the time runs out. Echochrome you collect the echoes (shadows of yourself) and avoid enemies in the optical illusion stages. Ice Breaker you keep the ball bouncing and smash all of the ice blocks in order to win. By playing these games to win you'll be rewarded with outfits that pertain to the game when beating Echochrome you get the costume to look like the character you control. In this section I do wish you could watch other people play while playing any of the arcade machines. The games themselves work just as you think they would with a good level of quality that I'm impressed with.
The developer spaces that are available is Far Cry 2 and Uncharted that look pretty interesting and is unique. I say this is a good start to things and would love to see where this goes especially with exclusive titles that Sony wants you to buy. I hope eventually you'll be able to watch live or pre-recorded tournaments to talk about while you're watching it.
In the end there's nothing to do in this "PlayStation Home" Sony didn't deliver on the promise - PlayStation Home is a 3D virtual community for PlayStation 3 users, it's an interactive virtual space where users meet up, hang out, and explore a connected world. It's free of charge and is available from the cross media bar (XMB). - and just made a pathetic attempt to make me be social. I say, "Screw you Sony for trying to make gamers not anti-social and I want to continue to be that stereotype that people have over gamers." Since it's a beta and will be free and most of the time all you do is just talk, I guess it will be ok, I'll have to see. Hell, is it anything different than this website?