QUOTE(Kira Yamoto @ Sep 12 2006, 05:20 PM)
This is what some, or most Xbox games did and I'm glad that they're doing this for PS3 as its gonna speed up the release date for our fellow European gamers. Heck, they might even get some games FIRST. Hopefully this trend will continue with other companies, so that we may never have to import again, or if we do import, we can play it in our language.
Currently games made by European companies almost always release in Europe first.
As for multi region discs speeding up the release date? NOPE. Think about it this way.. if the game was coded for Japan and it takes 3 months to add into the localization coding for the other regions (video formats, languages, etc)... the game might normally release in Japan in December then the US in March, then Europe and Aus in June, and the rest of world in September/October...
Now if they want to put all that info onto he same disc before releasing it at all it would mean that NO region would get the disc until September/October
It'd be like Comunism... everyone is the same... and thus everyone suffers the same as the lowest common denominator.
Also I want to clear something up...
the game does not have over 40 levels... read it again, it says "over 40 'different large loaded areas'" A single level could contain any number of "large loaded areas" IIRC a single LEVEL of Splinter Cell:CT included close to 5 or 6 large loaded areas.
I'm not saying it will have a small number of levels but I'd seriously be surprised if the game had more then 20 levels between single and multi-player, even less if they use the same level for both.