It’s weird, I know, but even though both the Sixaxis and the Xbox controller aren’t really suited for FPS gaming, both of them heavy-weight consoles seem flooded with the things. Shocking and pointless and boring and dull I say. Unwieldy too and that’s why I’m urging you to ignore these shootie offerings and focus on 3 rather different and properly fun PS3 titles. These:

Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction

In short, this feels like playing through a Pixar movie, complete with amazing graphics, excellent music, wacky characters, childish humor and shiny colours. Not an innovative game, I’ll give you that, but pure mindless fun and as polished a platformer as you could hope for. Besides, it also sports a silly story and your kids will love it. Should also serve to show off your console’s power to you friends, though they might get a tad disappointed when noticing the complete and utter lack of any multiplayer options whatsoever.

The Eye of Judgement

A strictly multi-player game that combines traditional CCG gaming with the power of the PS3. How? By using the PlayStation Eye camera and some very physical cards. Through the use of a board and said cards - each properly encrypted- players attack each other in the pretty intuitive fashion of selecting a card and placing it on the board in a fashion not unlike Magic the Gathering. The camera translates the card into a monster/order/whatever, prompts the PS3 to play an impressive animation and calculates any results. Not surprisingly Wizards of the Coast helped design the thing and its a breath of fresh air.

Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune

A classic arcade-adventure gone next-gen, or, to be precise, the evolution of arcade-adventures. Fantastic graphics, brilliant game mechanics, interesting puzzles, a convincing setting, PC quality storytelling, shockingly good voice acting and an inspired mix of bits of every genre imaginable make Uncharted the best single player game the PS3 has to offer. Yes, despite it being pretty short. Length, you see, has nothing to do with quality.