Over at the Sony booth during CES this week (where we also saw a cool exclusive clip from Spider-Man 3 by the way), a build of the upcoming Factor 5 developed dragon action game Lair was running and we decided to check it out.

It has to be said up front; Lair is easily one of the best looking games we have ever seen. From the highly detailed character models of the dragon itself to the huge bridge level in the demo to the thousands of enemy soldiers to fry on the bridge to the photo realistic water, there is nothing to complain about in the visual department. Factor 5 is taking the PS3's hardware to town for Lair and that alone might make it worth a look.

Unfortunately, Sony decided to put in cords to the SIXAXIS PS3 controller for their CES demo unit. As a result, playing Lair was a lot more difficult than it should have been because our movement of the controller was restricted. You move the dragon via the SIXAXIS motion sensor features but with the restraint of the cord at CES there was really no way to properly pilot the dragon.

That doesn't mean we think Lair is going to be a bad game; it's just unfortunate that Sony felt the need to be a little paranoid at the prospect of their controller getting stolen. Lair still looks great and we think it might play great but we may not know the truth until the game is released later in 2007.

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