This game does look pretty cool, though I only say that because I use to be a huge M:tG dork (and I still would be if it didn't cost so much money and had 7 decks that were filled with betas, foil, signed, promotional cards and all other sorts of special cards worth a lot of money that I traded most of my collection to get). That being said, I don't think it will do well because it just has so much going against it.
1. It might have a single player game, but those don't do well with games like this beyond the tutorial. Just look at any of the M:tG single player games out there.
2. As the comic about pointed out, you need an extra accessory to play. Accessory games don't traditionally do well. True, there are things like DDR and Guitar Hero that have done incredibly well, but there are many others that haven't.
3. There won't be any online play for this. Not a huge thing, but that's just one thing that could help it. This game would just be far too easy to cheat if there was an online component.
4. I haven't watched the video (yet-- downloading now just on a slow connection) but I'm assuming there are more cards to buy. That's requiring a huge commitment from people and is going to turn a lot of people off.
5. The subject matter isn't based on anything else. If this had the M:tG, Yugioh, Pokemon, Gundam, Battletech, LotR, whatever name attached to it that would help sales but it's a new universe.
6. Need to have two players in the same space. This isn't a fanboy comment but this game needed to be on the Wii. The PS3 and 360 are all about online gaming and the Wii is about gaming with friends. Eye of Judgement isn't going to have online gaming and it all about gaming with friends-- totally against what the PS3 is about.
Since we have PS3's at work I can see myself playing this game with other card game dorks, but I really just don't see this game doing that great.
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hmm, seems I was wrong about online. I wonder how they're going to get past rampant cheating (stacking the deck or fake drawing the right cards) and photoshopping and copying your own cards.
