PSP: Out Tomorrow (in Japan). But does anyone care?

[A Black Falcon]

Mentally offensive? I don't know, seems like they're just trying to attract people to the system by playing on what they know is something that will draw people in...

Ridge Racers import preview. Why posted? Another battery life comment. Oh and graphics. :)

http://www.gamespot.com/psp/driving/ridg...14902.html

As one of the more technically impressive PSP games, Ridge Racers has been the subject of much speculation regarding the system's battery life. While the battery has been rated for six hours of gameplay, that number seems to drop a bit when playing a game like Ridge Racers, which chews through battery life more quickly. Though battery life is something that can be difficult to gauge, it seems like Ridge Racers could chop that six hour number in half, if not more. Ridge Racers also has some noticeable load times that occur upon booting the game, and upon entering or exiting a race. While you'll notice the load times, they don't seem excruciatingly long, either.

Graphically, Ridge Racers seems to fall somewhere between the R4 and Ridge Racer 5. It looks better than a PlayStation game, but in some spots, it doesn't look quite as good as a PlayStation 2 game. The textures used for the track environments are sharp, and the polygonal environments are very, very crisp. But the cars themselves wear slightly blurry textures. However, they do have a nice level of reflection on them, which makes the cars look great, overall. On top of all that, the game runs at a clean, smooth frame rate that handles the sense of speed really well. This is a nice, fast-moving game.