Downloaded it from FilePlanet, worked fine.
Couldn't input my userID, has to enable Japanese input. Finally worked, but you stll have to install the patch, which wasn't out until just recently.
My initial impressions:
Better on a console, by far. Graphics are better, but only in the higher-resolution sort-of way.
The controls are a lot worse than the console. Running around, moving the camera, and fighting is all done much more smoothly with a controller. the only real advantage to the keyboard is the 1-0 keys for your techs, and I can't even figure out how to assign them.
Since this is completely online, there is a new game type called one person if you want to play solo. Would be nice to have in the console versions, because of the time-released rares that will never appear in the offline game.
haven't tried out teams yet, hurry the hell up Danny
, but as good of an addition as it may be, it's not enough. Unless you had every intention of starting from scratch, building new characters and mags up to play Episode IV and V, I wouldn't bother aside from just messing around in the open beta. The console versions are a lot better. I'd just pray that Sega releases Episodes IV and V for Xbox and Gamecube.
If they added the 1-0 action shortcuts for the keyboard (which both GC and Xbox support), and add a team mode, I wouldn't ever think twice about PSO BB.