Lair review for PS3

Lair. The massively hyped Lair game arrives on the PS3. Now, when we were at school, we were always being harangued about reaching our potential. Lair, the PS3 prodigy, is the game that aced the mocks and then flunked all the real exams. Spectacularly. So, just what went wrong with Lair? Find out why dragon riding is less fun than it should be by reading our review of Lair in this issue.

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Lair review for PS3

On paper, Lair is the sort of game of which dreams are made. From the makers of excellent GameCube game Star Wars: Rogue Squadron II, a game where you get to ride a dragon, toasting enemy soldiers and engaging in mid-air scraps with other fire-breathers, what could possibly go wrong? Everything, as it turns out - Lair is an unholy mess that's become such an embarrassment for Sony, that it has sent out a 21-page ‘reviewer's guide' to presumably assist videogames journalists in figuring out exactly what the hell is going on.

The only reasonable place to start is with the controls. For some reason, Sony has decided that the game should use the Sixaxis' motion-sensing capabilities for movement, with no option to revert to traditional analogue control.