This week's radiOPM podcast featured Full Auto 2 producer Mike Gallo from Sega of America who talked in great detail about the company's upcoming PlayStation 3 exclusive launch title. The OPM guys prodded Gallo about the online portion of the game and what user experience we can expect when taking our PS3's through a series of internet tubes.

We use Gamespy as part of our backend. And we do support your user profile, or whatever the final name for that's gonna be for the [PlayStation 3], that'll be what gets logged for stats.

OPM: SO WHEN YOU GO INTO NETWORK PLAY, YOU'LL SEE SORT OF A BROWSER?
When you first turn on the machine it logs you in automatically, I think you can change that in the settings. You have a user ID and an online profile, thats set up through the PlayStation, we don't have anything to do with that. That's all done through the PlayStation Network. When you log in and as long you have an ID and you're an active online member, when you go to the online mode, you'll get a menu option, you'll get to pick ranked or unranked play, then you'll see what games are available and then jump into one of those.

More about stats, what was dropped from the 360 version, and more after the jump.

OPM: AS FAR AS STAT TRACKING, IS IT ALL WITHIN FULL AUTO? IS THAT OUTSIDE? When you play ranked play, your stats, pretty basic set of stats, wins, losses, will get uploaded to Gamespy. You'll be able to see, I think we actually have it sortable by... its world wide and monthly or all-time, so you'll get to see who's ranked where. You'll be able to access it from our Web site, as well, so you can look at those stats independently of the game.

OPM: ACHEIVEMENTS ARE BIG ON 360, DID YOU GUYS THINK ABOUT THROWING IN THAT CONCEPT FOR THE PS3?
We actually do not have that in Full Auto 2. It's a feature we had to regrettably not support, a lot of it was just because of that moving target with the development timeline, we had make sure our online modes and network play was solid before we added some of that other stuff. Unfortunately, that was one of the things we had to drop.

Bummer. Sounds like Sony won't be requiring an Xbox Live level of standard feature sets for all online games, but at least the online portion sounds as simple to get into. Gallo also confirms that the game will run at 1080p, feature two-player split screen, pass on SixAxis control features, and a host of other sexy features.

Check out the full podcast for more. Michael McWhertor

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