Full Auto 2 is one of the first seven PS3 games I've bought, and it is by far the worst of them. (The others being Resistance, Ridge Racer 7, NFS: Carbon, Madden 2007, Genji, and Fight Night Round 3.) I had high hopes for it, being a fan of racers in general, and especially ones with carnage and interesting environments. But hammering away at it for several hours proved to me that it's just not a very well done game, unfortunately. I found that the single-player campaign is not well thought out, and it got boring very quickly. There are a few modes, but frankly they're just not all that fun to play. And I am a big fan of all kinds of racers from Gran Turismo to Burnout, from Twisted Metal: Black to Flatout 2, so I'd normally have a pretty high personal 'tilt' in favor of this kind of game.
I guess one of the most annoying parts is the framerate, which gets very choppy in most every race where there is much environmental damage going on. It's ugly, affects controllability, and happens way more than it should on a machine as powerful as the PS3. I suspect very little was done to optimize it to take advantage of the Cell at all, because while the game looks fairly nice, it's not so amazingly impressive that there should be the kind of slowdown it has. If the gameplay were more compelling, this would be a lot easier to forgive, but it's just not.
I will note that I have not tried online play in Full Auto 2 at all though, so if that somehow manages to be a fantastic experience that would redeem the whole game, I have not seen it. I'd be surprised if that's the case though, since there already seems to be enough choppiness in the single-player portion. Having bought it early and regretted it, I was really glad to see they put the demo up for download. At least other people can see what it's like rather than going in blind now.
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