We thought we’d give you a day or two to get used to those vibrantly glowing orbs before we told you what your options were. We have, of course, previously given you a fantastic guide to all thing Move and a lovely little launch guide to get you excited for it. It’s Saturday night though, and you’ve probably got mates coming round who are keen to see your new toy. Here’s what you could be showing them:
Launch Titles
R.U.S.E
Real time strategy control has always been an issue for consoles and Move has the potential to solve that problem. Ubisoft’s latest strategy title seems like it could be a wonderful way to show off just what the Move can do.
Sports Champions
This collection of sports games is the familiar hook for anyone that has a passing understanding of motion controls on consoles. Wii Sports is a clear inspiration but the extra precision and subtlety of control afforded by PlayStation’s magic wand makes this a much more realistic, if slightly less accessible, option. Read our full review here.
Start the Party
Augmented reality mini-games that are sure to make a room full of kids become almost unbearably noisy within about eight seconds. Don’t discount it though, there’s a special kind of joy to be found watching yourself swing a cartoon bat at a swarm of bugs. Read our full review here.
The Shoot
It’s a light-gun-style rail shooter set among a range of movie-inspired scenes. You have to blast your way through levels to impress a director and land another role. Sounds like Duck Hunt for the NES with some extra narrative clipped on. Not a bad thing at all if you ask me.
Kung Fu Rider
Probably the most bizarre inclusion in the launch line-up. Made by the same studio that brought you Ape Escape, the peculiarities are perhaps to be expected. It seems to consist of skidding down a Japanese street on an office chair while the PSEye takes photos of you. We’re not sure, will someone let us know?
Racquet Sports
Another title from Ubisoft, showing the studio’s backing for the new control system is firm. It does exactly what it says on the box. Choose from a variety of racquet sports and take on the AI or a human opponent in another natural fit for motion controllers.
Tumble
Probably one of the best ways to show the precision of the technology. Tumble is a game in which you stack blocks on top of each other to build a tower. It sounds simple but you have to get the placement just right in order to avoid the sight of your towering erection falling messily to the floor. Read our review here.
Flight Control
Ingenious, compelling, fun and cheap. This is probably the Launch weekend’s must-have title for Move. There’s not a lot that we can say without going back over our gushing review but rest assured that if you buy this you will most likely not regret it.
Patched-in Support
Tiger Wood PGA Tour Golf 2011
Golf and motion control are a perfect fit. The Wii has been doing it for years and Move’s extra precision means that the most realistic simulation of the game can be even more realistic. The patch is available now when you start up the game.
EyePet
The US release of this was actually held back to go along with Move. It’s such a natural fit for the control system that it will make you wonder why you ever bothered with that magic card thing. The patch is free and available on loading the disc so existing EyePet owners can’t really lose. Read our full review here.
High Velocity Bowling
I thought it was odd that there was no 10-Pin Bowling game included with Sports Champions until I realised that this was available from the PSN. It seems that this has always been there, waiting for motion control support to come along.
Resident Evil 5 Gold Edition
Play Resident Evil 5: Gold Edition as if it was Resident Evil 4 on the Wii. No bad thing if you ask me. This is probably the first implementation of Move with what many will arrogantly consider to be a “proper game” so it will be interesting to see how it goes down with the self-proclaimed “hardcore” while they wait for Killzone 3 and SOCOM 4.
Heavy Rain (Sept 22nd)
Already utilised PlayStation’s older method of motion control, the SixAxis but Move support should make what was already an immersive experience even more intense. The patch is listed as being available for (free) download on the 22nd of September but there’s a demo on the store if you can’t wait that long.
Planet MiniGolf
This had some seriously tricky controls which made it extremely difficult to be precise with. Move could fix all that and make it just feel natural. Everyone loves a bit of minigolf so here’s hoping that swinging your imaginary golf clubs in Planet MiniGolf makes that game finally fulfil its great potential.
Hustle Kings
Shiny balls controlled by glowing balls. Hustle Kings is definitely a competitor for the title of best pool game on the PlayStation and Move support should reinforce that claim. I just hope I don’t have to enact the motions of leaving my 50p on the table and buying the next round when I’m inevitably beaten.
So that’s about it for the first weekend but there’s a lot more coming in the weeks and months after launch. What about you, what did you pick up with your Move controllers? What has been your most fun experience with it so far? What do you plan on getting over the next few weeks?
Mossychops
People remember to Calibrate your controler be going to, Settings/Accesory Settings/Calibrate Motion Controler. before you play any games, It does Help.
(This only needs to be done once)
BalramRules
ooo, on da ign review, it sez dat it haz to be done for each and evry game u put in, coz each game uses different styles of motion or somethin
I TRUSTED IGN!!!
ARRRGGGHHH
bunimomike
Have you ever thought about using Earth words? :-)
Peter Rushton
the shoot, tumble and sports champion are games i will get thanks to the demos, :)
3shirts
The Shoot demo made me really want that ray gun accessory too :)
Peter Rushton
if time crisis is any good then that gun will come in handy twice :D
TSBonyman
Shoot demo was pretty good but i don’t think i would buy the gun accessory just for that, depends what other games use it i guess.
aerobes
@3shirts
I couldn’t find a way to reverse movement (Yes, Im weird) on The Shoot. Do you know of anything?
It seems a genuinely cool game but if I can’t reverse movement, I know I’ll never be competitive at it.
DJ-Katy
Tumble should make you actually stand to the level of what youre assembling, starting on the floor. I would love to see people standing on chairs when the structure gets 3m tall trying to reach to put the next block on. That would be ace.
3shirts
Probably the bloody HSE police though
DJ-Katy
But imagine all the Darwin Award-inspired mass death from stupid people falling off step ladders and shit. It would be epic :D
3shirts
You are a bad person :)
DJ-Katy
Busted :(
TSBonyman
While searching for TGS videos a few days ago i found this.. looks familiar eh?.
http://www.youtube.com:80/watch?v=bO7e9s9GeUM&feature=player_embedded#at=447
DrNate86
Heehee “towering erection”!
DJ-Katy
Messily.
To the floor. Could be worse, it could land on someone’s face.
DrNate86
I just spotted that bit too, beat me to it! I don’t know of its worrying or reassuring that noone else commented on it!
DrNate86
Aahahaha and it goes “messily to the floor”!
DJ-Katy
Good job the blocks are all slippery or grippy, and not sticky.
DJ-Katy
Just found another use for the Move (besides the obvious). My cat absolutely loves having under his ears scratched by the orb.
Ro6afc11
With my Move Starter Pack I picked up a new 320GB PS3 :)
Consequently last night was spent running the data transfer utility which took a bit longer than I thought so I went to bed and left it. Luckily all was well this morning. Having not been back long from a 2 week holiday I then set about going through the store to see what goodies there were to download along with my PS+ items. Turns out there were 26 goodies that needed D/L.
Once that had finished I was planning on ploughing through the various Move demos. Have tried a few but but since I started up Flight Control that has gone out the window! I will be picking up Sports Champions for sure though at some point.
Going to give some more demos a go now.
ruinereraser
“With my Move Starter Pack I picked up a new 320GB PS3 :)”
Same here! :)
How did the Data Transfer go? Did it transfer all game data, saves etc? What about PSN titles? Any of those needed to be redownloaded?
I have few profiles on the old machine, and wonder if the DTU will transfer them too along with any related data as well… Should be on the case tomorrow :)
Ro6afc11
The data transfer was a piece of piss but did take quite a long time. Was worried a few times that it had hung as it stayed on same percentage for a long time but it got there in the end. It transferred absolutely everything over. Mutiple accounts, all PSN titles, game data and saves (including KZ2 protected save) and even internet favourites and home page settings etc. Give it a go and I hope it goes as smooth for you.
ruinereraser
Great, that sounds promising, thanks :)
I’ll start the transfer tonight (150GB to transfer), so hopefully it should be complete by Monday morning.
TheRook21
Towering erection /giggle
Really enjoying sport champions, volleyball is my least played, then bocce and then disc golf the other three are equally played (lots)
TheRook21
Just to point out I quite like bocce and disc golf and feel indifferent towards volleyball… But I don’t dislike playing and of the game :)
Scotsman-15
I had 2 Move controllers, 1 navi, and Sports Champions preordered from ShopTo. I got the navi and Sports Champions 2 days early and i’m still waiting for the 2 move controllers (you know to actually play the game :P). But by the look of things they seem to be ‘lost’ in the post :(
Oh well maybe one day in the next fortnight i’ll get to try out this list of games…
Cadabena
Unlucky, got my Move controller (the only thing I’d ordered) from ShopTo on Thursday. If I remember rightly, don’t they give you a £3.00 discount on future purchases should your item not arrive on release day?
YOURMUMANDME
Has anyone managed to get the Beat Sketcher demo to work ?
DJ-Katy
Not me, I was going to ask the same question. Anyone?
YOURMUMANDME
From the looks of things it’s not as if we’re missing out on the game that’ll make Move but it would be nice to have a demo that works.
I think I pressed ‘O’ on just about every thing that had ‘O’ on it, even my belly button…
bunimomike
Thank god you were sitting down!
YOURMUMANDME
I wasn’t ….. *hangs head*
Dlaf42
yeah i download Beat Sketcher and its ok for a demo. just pick your brush shape and colour then just paint on the screen to make sounds, the thing i found good was you can use any colour from pointing to it with your move controller.
TSBonyman
I tried it too, you have a looping 2 bar timeline counting in the corner and a drum loop playing. You can leave the instruments on auto or select one and select a brush/spray/sape etc and also a colour to paint with. Some brushes enable an extra menu for line thickness.
As you paint notes or parts of a pattern are placed in the timeline. lower pitch notes are bottom left of screen and highest notes at top right. I got better results by keeping the doodles small and got some pleasing loops going. The only problem was after using 3 maybe 4 instruments in my loop any new instrument instantly muted all the previous ones, so you can’t exactly build a wall of sound. There’s around 12-15 instruments and the same for brushes so there doesn’t seem to be a lot to it. Having said that only the freeplay(create, possibly) mode is playable in the demo but i think the real meat of the game isn’t in the demo as there are several other locked modes on the menu . And it only seems to work if the Move is set to controller no. 7.