What's your most impressive 3D gaming experience so far?

Obviously, it's pretty early along in the life of 3D gaming on consoles, so I'm sure there are going to be much, much better 3D experiences coming soon, but what is the best 3D experience you've had with a console game so far? PC gamers can make me jealous and talk about their best experience with a 3D PC game as well if you like. (unfortunately, my PC is ancient and I can't run any modern games on it).


My most impressive experience up until now is racing on a track called "The Edge" in Motorstorm 3D Rift. Much of the race track takes place along.... you guessed it.... The edge of cliffs overlooking an ocean view. Speaking of the views... they can be pretty breathtaking on this track. There are certain jumps where your vehicle is flying so high, and so far, that it can give you that queasy feeling in your stomach. You can almost get like a motion sickness when your vehicle does one of these super jumps.

Sometimes when your truck or buggy is going around the track on the edges of the cliff, and you're going so fast that you can't control your buggy, you end up going off the cliff down to the ocean and it's almost like you get that sensation of being way too freaking high up in the air. Like a fear of heights type of thing.

I'm just impressed that a video game's visuals can give me these kinds of sensations. Pretty dam impressive. Sure the game is running in a sub 720p resolution, and there are lots of jaggies, there is some of that 3D pixelization/blurriness thing going on, and there is even some ghosting on certain parts of certain tracks, but I still think that this game provides some killer 3D experiences.

If you have a PS3 and a 3D display, you owe it to yourself to try out Motorstorm 3D Rift.

I played a bunch of Avatar in 3D on my Xbox 360, back when I had my old Samsung plasma that could do Checkerboard 3D. The game was pretty lame, but I liked the sequences when you are on that boat thing, and your riding around on a river. The 3D looked pretty sweet during those sequences.

I'd love to get a high-end PC to be able to try some more games in 3D, but everytime I started looking at building a PC, I kept coming to the conclusion that it would cost me about $850 or more to build the kind of PC that I'd want, and I just don't feel like spending that kinda money on it right now. I've got two PS3's, and 3 Xbox 360's scattered around my house. I've been a console gamer since the release of the Dreamcast on 9-9-99. I did play PC games from late 1996 till about mid 2000 (3dFX Voodoo owners holla!), but since then, I've gone exclusively with console gaming. I remember the old days of always needing to upgrade memory, cpus and graphics cards. (back then you had to upgrade the sound cards too, but I guess you don't need to do that nowadays...)


Still, there are definitely some games on PC that I'd LOVE to play, especially in 3D. I loved Grid on the Xbox 360, so if that game is cool in 3D on the PC, then that would be even better. I'd love to try DiRT 2 in 3D, and tons of other games as well. I've heard that the last major Tomb Raider game (can't remember the subtitle) is amazing in 3D on the PC for whatever reason.


Eventually, I'll get around to building a decent gaming PC, but for whatever reason I just keep putting it off..

Redbox only rents the newer releases. They don't have a back catalog. The best way to get Avatar for PS3 is look on Craigslist or Ebay. You should be able to own the game for about $7 to $11 at the most. Play thru the whole thing at your leisure and then just resell it again.


Ahh.... It's so nice to still be able to buy used video games, and then also resale them to somebody else. Pretty soon, we won't be able to do that with any new games. We are currently still in the "good 'ole days" in the fact that we can still do this. Enjoy it while it lasts.

Wow, that's kinda depressing. Add to that the fact that Enslaved's 3D mode is supposedly horrible (3D is added via a DLC patch). I also haven't heard very much about the NBA 2K11 Best Buy 3D version. I'm wondering if that has lame 3D as well ??