Sony's Playstation 3 demonstration was a real ear-splitting, show stopper. Joel and Mike have posted the specs and games mentioned, but that doesn't really capture the real-time, game demonstrations that Sony churned through during their three-hour presentation.

The ones I found most impressive include the demonstration of real world objects being used to manipulate the game world with the help of the Eye Toy camera. In the demo, the creator of the Eye Toy held up two plastic cups and used them to move their digital equivalents on the giant screen behind him. Using the Eye Toy, he was able to scoop up water and pour it from cup to cup. He also tossed sprays of water across a tub filled with floating plastic toys.

Sony also went all out to show off the graphic muscle-power of their new NVIDIA-designed chip. First they showed an action scene rendered for the PS3 using the Unreal engine. The level of detail and realism were staggering.

Later, some Electronic Folks, including EA prez Larry Probst, took the stage to show off Fight Night Round 3. The superb graphics, they said, allowed them to create realistic facial expressions in both fighters. The expressions are so realistic that a player should be able to read them to predict moves as they play, or at least that's the plan.

The Sony presser got off to a crawl, but it sure as heck kicked it up a few thousand notches by the end of the show. After talking specs and showing the graphics power of the PS3's NVIDIA card, Sony went through a laundry list of games, showing off tantalizing peeks at some very impressive titles.

One of the games I found most impressive was Mobil Suit Gundam, which I need right now, despite the fact the sound of the giant robots firing off shots at each other made my ears bleed.

The other one I need right now, and I mean NEED, is Killzone 2. It managed to retail all of the gothic, gritty realism of the original, but beef up the level of detail about 50 billion times.

I'll post more from the presser later tonight.

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