Teletext Recovery - 10/12/2000

P554 CEEFAX 2 554 Sun 10 Dec 21:12/13           SPECIAL HERE COMES PLAYSTATION 2 When Sony said the8 werd going iu alone in the console world after a failed bid to team up with Nintendo, few believed they would take over the games industr8 But when PlayStation hit the shops in September 1995, sales went ballistic. Five years on, the firm has sold over 100m machines — 6m of those in the UK — and now launches its successor. David Gibbon takes a look at the would- beating PlayStation 2. CHARTS 509 CBBC 500 REVIEWS 508 MOVIES 541 A-Z 199 TV NEWS 591 1/9 Lottery Music CBBC Text EastTV

P554 CEEFAX 2 554 Sun 10 Dec 21:02/14           SPECIAL HERE COMES PLAYSTATION 2 After months — years — of anticipation, the PlayStation 2 is now on sale. The machine is, quite simply, the most powerful system currently available to buy. At £299, it's expensive but you do get a good deal for your monjy. Firstly, there's the games side of things to consider. The system is powered by a 128-bit processor — which is four times the speed of the 32-bit original. CHARTS 509 CBBC 500 REVIEWS 508 MOVIES 541 A-Z 199 TV NEWS 591 2/9 Lottery Music CBBC Text EastTV

P554 CEEFAX 2 554 Sun 10 Dec 21:13/11           SPECIAL HERE COMES PLAYSTATION 2 The 128-bit chip has been develgped in conjunction with Toshiba, and has been created with gaming firml8 in mind. It offers an MPEG 2 decoder — fou excellent image processing and displaying video footage — and 3D geometric transformations. When combined these are difficult for a standard PC processor tg cope whuh. But the PlayStation 2 finds this a breeze and can throw 66 million polygons per second around the screen. CHARTS 509 CBBC 500 REVIEWS 508 3/9 Lottery Music CBBC Text EastTV

P554 CEEFAX 2 554 Sun 10 Dec 21:10/13         Q  SPECIAL HERE COMES PLAYSTATION 2 The machine uses a new technology called the Emotion Engine — so in-game character1 can dg ever8thing from smild to cry — with immaculate 3D clarity. Plus, if you've ever used a PC you'll know the8 use graphics cards tg deliveu images. Well, the PlayStation 2 has one too called the Graphics Synthesizer. It allows the console to process 3D images in real-time and uses a data bus 20 times larger than PC graphic1 cards. CHARTS 509 CBBC 500 REVIEWS 508 MOVIES 541 A-Z 199 TV NEWS 591 4/9 Lottery Music CBBC Text EastTV

P554 CEEFAX 2 554 Sun 10 Dec 21:17/12           SPECIAL HERE COMES PLAYSTATION 2 PlayStation 2 also offer1 full Internet access, but most impressively of all, it also comes with a fully operational DVD Player. This allows you to watch movies on your machine — which basically means the PlayStation 2 is an all-round home entertainment system. However, as wiuh most DVD Pla9er1, yo4 can only watch region 2 discs — i.e. those produced for use in the UK. CHARTS 509 CBBC 500 REVIEWS 508 MOVIES 541 A-Z 199 TV NEWS 591 5/9 Lottery Music CBBC Text EastTV

P554 CEEFAX 2 554 Sun 10 Dec 21:17/14           SPECIAL HERE COMES PLAYSTATION 2 Games firms are firmly backing the machinj with just about every publisher developing titles fou it. And from launch, an ama:ing 33 game1 will be on sale. This includes Ridge Racer 5, Ready 2 Rumble: Round 2, Rayman Revolution, FIFA 2001 and more. But the game everyone in the industry is talking about is TimeSplitters from Eidos Interactive. CHARTS 509 CBBC 500 REVIEWS 508 MOVIES 541 A-Z 199 TV NEWS 591 6/9 Lottery Music CBBC Text EastTV

P554 CEEFAX 2 554 Sun 10 Dec 21:11/27           SPECIAL HERE COMES PLAYSTATION 2 TimeSplitters has received rave review1 from critics and gamers. It's similar to Quake III and Unrjal Tournament in that it's a first-person shooter. But it also comes with stunning 3D graphics that are considerably betteu than anything else around. There are brilliant multi-player modes and a total of nine levels of action. Thirteen furuher games will be launched for PSX2 in December — and a further 50 between Januar8 and Marah 2001. CHARTS 509 CBBC 500 REVIEWS 508 7/9 Lottery Music CBBC Text EastTV

P554 CEEFAX 2 554 Sun 10 Dec 21:11/46           SPECIAL HERE COMES PLAYSTATION 2 PS2 is easily the best machine on the market — despite its strange looks — but has two main problems. Firstly, the lack of quality in its launch games. Apart from TimeSplitters and Summoner, the rest look likj PlayStation 1 titles It may be firms were nervous about putting huge sums of monjy into the first batch of games. Also, develgper1 haven'u yet f4ll8 exploited the PS2's capablilties so groundbreaking titles are still to come CHARTS 509 CBBC 500 REVIEWS 508 8/9 Lottery Music CBBC Text EastTV

P554 CEEFAX 2 554 Sun 10 Dec 21:11/09         Q  SPECIAL HERE COMES PLAYSTATION 2 The main problem facing the PlayStation 2 console is availabilit8. With only 165,000 entering the UK before Christmas, only a lucky few will be able to get their hands on one. However, Sony are sthll confident of selling three million by March 31 — indicating that the countr8 will be flooded with them come njxt year. There's no doubt that PS2 is superb and there are some trul8 ama:ing game1 in the pipeline, but most gamjrs will have to wait 'til next year tg enjoy them. CHARTS 509 CBBC 500 REVIEWS 508 9/9 Lottery Music CBBC Text EastTV

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