the playstation move-equivalent of the minigame compilations released for ps2's eyetoy, move party is an excuse to use sony's motion controller to look like a fool in front of your family and friends. (as if holding a glowing wand and pantomiming playing a sport isn't already silly enough.)

ludwig and i took turns looking utterly ridiculous while playing the title earlier today, trying to best one another in a series of minigames which ranged from swatting bugs with tennis rackets to painting shapes in the air - things that would have been entirely possible with sony's older tech. we got a brief taste of the move's potential when we needed to stab a spear at jellyfish floating up the screen - i really had to stab toward the screen pretty strongly to pop them. the precision possible with the move was best demonstrated by the haircut minigame, where it was possible to finely cut along the scalp line to remove the comical characters' locks.

the most impressive element of move party, though, is by far the precision with which the various tools - paintbrushes, shears, rackets - that all mimicked how i was holding the controller exactly in the on-screen ''''''augmented reality'''''' video. it was ... kind of spooky. though it wasn't announced as such, this has to be the software title sony intends to pack in with the hardware. i can't imagine it debuting as a full-priced retail title. maybe at $20, or, better yet, a psn release.
hands-on: playstation move's 'move party' originally appeared on joystiq on thu, 11 mar 2010 00:20:00 est. please see our terms for use of feeds.




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