PlayStation 3 is Mine!!!

Everyone needs their diversions. Mine now comes in the form of the PlayStation 3. :)

My local Best Buy had an invitation-only Reward Zone event last night. I won a t-shirt for beating my friend at American Idol karaoke and free ear buds for being among the first 100 in the door.

They were also giving 250 bonus point for every $100 spent... and I had a lot of gift card money to burn. So, I picked up the 60 GB model, an extra controller, the memory card adapter, Blazing Angels, and Resistance: Fall of Man.

Thus far, I am very happy with my purchase. The machine itself runs beautifully and was easy as pie to set up. It uses the same multi-out port as the PS2, so I didn't have to buy new component cables or ante up for an HDMI cable to get good picture quality.

I've been playing Blazing Angels this morning and loving it. The graphics are great, the gameplay is fun, the planes are awesome, and Ubisoft seems to have learned from Heroes of the Pacific in that the controls are much more user-friendly. Shooting down Stukas over the Thames has never been so fun!

I can't wait to take a shot at Resistance...