In our October 2010 issue, we reviewed the PlayStation Move motion control peripheral for the PS3 and its flagship title, Sports Champions. While the tech was and still is great, Sports Champions has been the only decent game available since then. Sure, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11 and Heavy Rain did add Move support but we've already played those, and my controller is now gathering dust. The games that did come, namely The Shoot (reviewed in the December 2010 issue) and The Fight, were below average and not even worth a second look.
The only time I found myself using the Move in the three months from November to January was with a cute downloadable indie game called Funky Lab Rat, but I doubt most Move owners even knew of its existence, so all they have is the unfulfilled promise of a barrage of great games. The most promising Move title that was shown prior to the Move’s release last year, Sorcery, is still nowhere in sight.
If you bought into the hype at launch time, your patience will be rewarded soon, with a steady supply of games, and more importantly, serious ones (none of that casual pin-the-tail-on the-donkey nonsense) in the coming months.
LittleBigPlanet 2 will be patched with Move support soon. A demo with Move support—Sackboy’s Prehistoric Moves—showed how well motion controls could work with LBP. The most exciting of Sony’s big hitters to implement Move will be Killzone 3. While hardcore gamers will surely stick to the Dualshock controller, I was pleasantly surprised by how Move worked with Killzone 3, so much so that I could see myself
playing the whole game with it. And in March, PlayStation mascots will unite for Move-only title Heroes on the Move. Things are finally picking up.
The only time I found myself using the Move in the three months from November to January was with a cute downloadable indie game called Funky Lab Rat, but I doubt most Move owners even knew of its existence, so all they have is the unfulfilled promise of a barrage of great games. The most promising Move title that was shown prior to the Move’s release last year, Sorcery, is still nowhere in sight.
If you bought into the hype at launch time, your patience will be rewarded soon, with a steady supply of games, and more importantly, serious ones (none of that casual pin-the-tail-on the-donkey nonsense) in the coming months.
LittleBigPlanet 2 will be patched with Move support soon. A demo with Move support—Sackboy’s Prehistoric Moves—showed how well motion controls could work with LBP. The most exciting of Sony’s big hitters to implement Move will be Killzone 3. While hardcore gamers will surely stick to the Dualshock controller, I was pleasantly surprised by how Move worked with Killzone 3, so much so that I could see myself
playing the whole game with it. And in March, PlayStation mascots will unite for Move-only title Heroes on the Move. Things are finally picking up.
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