Playstation Tales of the Abyss, does it work on PS3?

[Rorolina Frixell]

I'm considering asking for Tales of the Abyss for xmas however it was only released in JApan and America, however the PS3 has backwards compatibility (mine anyway, being an old model 60 Gig) so, would it work an American game even though it's a UK PS3?

I'd hate to get it and then find out it doesn't even work

 

[Linnaete]

I don't see why it shouldn't work. Your PS3 is region free and has backwards compatibility (I wish mine has). The only case is how much it will cost in case somehow it doesn't work, and you don't wish to blow your money away.

 

[Rorolina Frixell]

Ya, I did have Resident Evil 4 (bought it without realising it was American) but I never bothered testing it in th PS3 so I have no idea how an American game would play on a PS3. And since I don't have money to burn I wouldn't want to get an American PS2 just to play one game, and i'm a tad awkward about chipping my PS2 in case it messes anything up.

 

[NeroSeraph]

Right i take that the game is american and you've got an UK 60GB (wish i had one ). If the ps2 game is not from england it will not work as the ps2 game are region locked on the PS3, but ps3 games are not hence the reason why you can play ps3 games from the US on an EU PS3. Hoped it helped

 

[Exire]

Some games have worked fine, a select few have not however. A notable select few, in my honest opinion. FFVIII was glitchy, as was Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga. I recall TotA being slightly glitchier on the PS3 than it was on the PS2. It still glitched a bit on both systems. One time I got stuck on the world map somehow and had to restart. Goodbye three hours of my life! That sort of thing makes me quit playing a game for months.

Nothing fatally wrong though, unlike SMT: DDS, where the game will freeze on the PS3 by getting in a plain old random encounter. Anyway, so long as you save often like we all should (but often don't), I think you'll be fine. I stick to playing my earlier games on the PS2 though. It seems to play easier in general, and I don't want to take a chance of some weird bug the genius mind of the PS3 just can't handle.