PS3 Move thoughts (games)
by at 11:53 PM
So, I ended up getting a free Move bundle (eye, controller, Sports Champions, demo disc). So many others have already talked about their opinions about it, but I'll add a few more:
- The fact the Move works with all the system controls is pretty nice.
- Sports Champions on the easy modes doesn't do the controller justice. It feels only slightly better than the Wii waggle controls, but unlike Wii Sports, isn't fun. However, on the more difficult levels, the controller actually feels like you're controlling real, physical objects, and that makes it way too hard. But bocce is fun.
- Of the demos I played:
- EyePet was cute but kind of meh. I can see it being great if you have kids though.
- Beat Sketcher: it was a bad sign that it didn't want to recognize me pressing the button on my Move because it was expecting it to only be on controller slot 7 (which my BD Remote is usually on). After doing a bunch of controller finagling I managed to get it going. So not worth the time. This game really should use the Move in "laser pointer" mode rather than using the on-screen position to control it. I don't like having to stand three feet away from my TV (which will be even worse when my recently-ordered 55" monster gets here).
- Echchrome 2 was a huge letdown, mostly because I loved the original, and because the controls didn't feel at all like they needed to be on the Move (what's the point to controlling a flashlight with something that feels exactly like a flashlight if you're only able to point at where the flashlight is to be pointing in the vague direction of from some arbitrary origin point?). Also the Magic Voice was really obnoxious, much moreso than in the original (and you actually have to listen to her in this one).
- Start the Party! was stupid fun, and I'll probably buy it.
- Kung Fu Rider is another letdown. Cute premise, and the gameplay is vaguely okay but it's still just waggle controls. There is no reason it needed to be on the Move. Actually, the Move was detrimental, if anything.
- Tumble was fun, and I will probably be buying it. It will also benefit greatly from 3D glasses. Did I mention that my recently-ordered 55" TV is also 3D? Well it is.
- I didn't play any of the others, and frankly I have no interest in any of them.
- Well, okay, maybe I'll try The Shoot. (It's at least a bit more innovative than yet another Time Crisis.)
- Heavy Rain might be interesting with the Move patch, if only to see how stupid it is to have real world motions translating into completing QTEs that are supposed to simulate real world motions. But unless they patched the game so that (spoiler) the private eye wasn't the criminal as revealed with the stupidest ass-pull ever in a video game I still won't be interested in playing it again.
- I see a hell of a lot of potential for Move, but no real killer app for it just yet. So naturally I also bought another Move, two Navigation, and a charging station for everything. I am such a consumer whore (and how!).
Comments
My experience is that EyePet is incredibly awesome if you are seven.
I should try Heavy Rain now, but Civ V came out and well...
The Move ball uses a programmable RGB LED for its beacon, which the software can adjust the color of so that it can differentiate it from the background as well as different Moves from each other. It can also get really bright.
MS's Kinect uses IR in addition to visible light (presumably with an active emitter on its end, so it can judge depth easily), but it doesn't have any hardware controller part. So it does a somewhat better job of body detection than the PS Eye, but that's ALL it can do (while the Eye can do body detection that's good enough for all the games that I've seen coming out for Kinect - and actually the EyeToy on the PS2 could do pretty much everything that Kinect is being used for as well). Obviously I see Move doing better than Kinect (although both will be small potatoes compared to the Wii).