A quick blog to say that we got PGR4 in at work yesterday, which made me rather excited and irritated. Excited that another great chapter in this series is out and irritated that we've got it a week early and all I can do with it is look at the box. I might be tempted to have a sneaky play on it though, perhaps even put it on demo on the 360 in the store if I'm allowed to.

I am wondering why we can't sell it though, I mean the game is clearly ready, so it's just going to sit in our warehouse for a whole week until it's official release date. Perhaps they do it just to annoy us?

Re: the PGR series, I enjoy it somewhat, but I have to say it's not a patch on the Gran Turismo or Forza Motorsport series and I'm very much looking forward to the next GT game, will definately stick that on display when we get it. This week's games I'm demoing are:

PS3 1080p: FIFA 08 - I know it's not actually running in 1080p, but it's such an important game that I replaced our Ridge Racer 7 1080p demo with it - it's proving pretty popular so far and I'm happy to see England beating Germany on many occasions on the spectator demos

PS3 720p: Motorstorm - Had this running for many months and it's still as popular as ever with the punters - don't make any wonder either - great game!

360: Sega Rally - Stuck this on demo last week in place of Forza 2 and it's been very popular so far - when I first got it going I was not overly impressed with the graphics, I thought the colours were too vivid and edges were a bit jaggy, but it's started to grow on me as it's a good fun arcade racer, even if the mud effects are still a bit hit and miss.

PC 8800GTS: Colin McRae DiRT - Runs pretty smooth on one of our most powerful PCs at full graphical settings on a 1440x900 resolution iirc. Unfortunately seems to be a bit picky about control pads, so it's just been arrow keys so far - does look amazing though, so shows off the PC pretty well nonetheless.

PC 8600GTS: Sega Rally Revo - Couldn't manage full graphics, but not a bad game to demo.

PC 8500: Pro Evo 2008 - Doesn't require too many specs, so works quite well on this machine - not proved too popular though.

Anyway, that's about it - guess it didn't turn out to be such a short blog after all - ah well... :P