I just played Motorstorm 2 3D

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MikeB said:
I think it will be better to wait for games which were designed for stereoscopic 3D support before coming to conclusions. The first few games to support this are some older PS3 games which aren't optimised nor designed for this. Future games will certainly show better results.

But I think having this option for these games is a nice addition for people with 3DTVs in the future who already own a PS3 and these games today.

However I think Super Stardust HD will be a good cheap launch title worthy of buying for its 3D support, the coders are top notch and probably their engine will see a good optimised overhaul.

I completely agree with you there. Games that are designed with 3D in mind would certainly tackle things differently, not to mention earlier efforts might just not do it very well. However, my concern is that what prevented 3D from being a worthwhile addition in Motorstorm 2 will do the same for other games because the nature of videogames is much different than movies.

The primary use of 3D in movies so far (oh lets be honest, the only reason) is to have crap fly out at you causing you to say "wow that's cool" There was a scene in Avatar where I wasn't even paying attention to the dialogue because an open door was sticking out so far I thought it might hit me in the face. I loved that door.

But videogames work a little differently. Since you're controlling the action on screen, you're usually controlling a protagonist of some sort. Be it a first or third person perspective, the action takes place from the perspective of the television screen. If something is flying out from the screen at you, it's position in 3d space is past that of the protagonist. Sure we can still get explosions and flying stuff that jumps off the screen at us, but I imagine that the implementation for anything more than superfluous debri will be very limited. I guess we could have the protagonist itself be what appears to float in the middle of the room, but given the not quite perfected tech, having the whole play time focus around a jumped out object would probably be a lot worse for your eyes than the Virtual Boy ever was.

I wish it the best, but... hey wait a sec... a New Myst type game with beautiful 3d worlds and inventive 3d puzzles could actually be really cool. hm...