GamePro went to the launch party for FFXIII and posted some fun stuff about it - including game-play footage which looks marvellously good. Its story is here. You can watch the vids below though.

UPDATE: Actually, you can't see them below as we were linking from GamePro, which apparently did a bad, bad thing by taking the videos in the first place and then posting them in the second place. We understand that Square Enix is a little bit annoyed about the whole thing.