IGN: PlayStation Move Heroes Review

[Reasonable]

kitler53 said:

Reasonable said:

Not a surprise having tried the demo.  The graphics are actually a bit better than noted compared to a lot of similar titles, if below what's possible, and the controls are fine but the core gameplay is just seems weak going by the demo.

Mind you, I could see it selling okay at a slow rate due to the kid appeal and nice looks.  My youngest wanted it immediately he tried the demo.

It's always hard to judge with motion titles what will 'stick' more broadly or not I find.

If you're a core fan of the series characters though you will probably struggle.  I'm so used to controlling Sly or Ratchet or Jak with a gamepad it just felt odd using Move, even though the motion controls themselves are sound and work well.

graphics were good imo, or in otherwords looked more-or-less the same as R&C did.

i thought the core gameplay was really good at times (whip, sword, and shooting mechanics) and poor at other times (bowling and throwing mechanics).

i really want to like this game but what i just can't get over is they made it a set of mini-games.  if they left all of those same game-mechanics in place and kept the adventure-style genre each of these franchises is known for i would have loved this game.  as is it's hard not to think of it as a cheap cash in.

Yup, that's how I felt about the games.

TBH, for what it is it's not a 5, definately more of a 7 for mini-game collection.  I mean, from what I've played it's solid, the controls work, the graphics are fine and there's enough to do.  The review clearly marked it down for not being something else - i.e. closer to the main franchise titles with a proper plot, etc.

Now, I'd prefer if it was a bigger title, but still, as mini-game collections go it's no worse than plenty of others and it does have pretty good production values.  Certtainly it looks better than anything comparable on Wii and at least the equal of what we've seen in Kinect titles so far.

I suspect in the same manner of a lot of Wii titles it'll score poorly though.  The question is, will it connect (I'm so funny today) with enough of an audience as a decent mini game collection for Move based on popular characters?