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| Eyetoy: Play; 7 out of 10, good! | |
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| Topic Started: Jun 6 2007, 09:06 AM (416 Views) | |
| Evil Hamster | Jun 6 2007, 09:06 AM Post #1 |
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Number of players: 1-4 Price: £19:99 Release: 2003 Console: Playstation 2 Eyetoy Play is without a doubt one of those games that are completely different to anything else. For those who are unfamiliar with the Eyetoy software, it utilises a camera to project an image of yourself onto the screen, where you can play a host of games. Most of the games available to play on the Eyetoy are minigame compilations, which is a shame, yet they are all still a good laugh. Eyetoy Play was the first game to be released for the Eyetoy software, and is well worth a look. Eyetoy Play is simply one of those games that anyone can play. The simplicity of appearing on the screen and just waving about to punch baddies, spin plates or bounce a football can be understood by just about everyone. The majority of the game is made up of twelve minigames, which revolve around getting as high a score as possible. Whilst all of the minigames lack any sort of depth, it's all still a joy to play, especially when competing with friends. The twelve minigames are as follows: Beat Freak. Beat Freak is a fairly generic rhythm game, played in a similar fashion to a dancemat, with the difference being you use your hands instead of your feet. CD's will come out from the middle of the screen and go over one of the four speakers placed in each of the corners of the screen. You have to wave over the CD's as they go over the speakers, the nearer the centre of the speaker you get it, the more points you get. Whilst the song selection is fairly limited, this game is still very enjoyable and is one of the ones you will find yourself coming back to a lot. Posted Image Kung Foo. This is another one of the more fun ones in the package. Simply, lots of baddies will try and jump at you, you have to punch them of dispose of them in some other way before they hit you. It plays very well, and is immensely enjoyable. There are also bonus levels where you have to try and break boards for extra points, which are a neat addition but aren't quite as fun as the actual baddie killing itself. Posted Image Wishi Washi. My personal favourite. Basically, you just jump around the screen, trying to clear the windows of the bubbles as quickly as possibly. Little bonus bubbles will also float past you- these may completely clear a window for you, give you some bonus points or just chuck more suds onto the window for you to wipe if you're unlucky. This game has incredible replay value, as you strive to beat your high score. It's easily one of the best games in the package. Posted Image Keep ups. This game should have been great. It sounds perfect, bouncing a football on your head into baddies, multi ball... but it isn't. Seeing as the camera can only detect you when you are moving, if you stand still to try and head the ball, it will often just go straight through your head. It's infuriating, and renders the game nearly unplayable. Posted Image Boxing Chump. What an awesome game. Beating up robots has never been this much fun. In this game, you are pitted in the boxing ring with Big Robo Bro, in a fist-fight. It's great fun, though it isn't always very challenging. But it's still very satisfying, and hugely enjoyable. Posted Image UFO Juggler. This is one of the more obscure games in the package. There are two launch pads at the bottom of the screen, from which numerous UFO's will be launched. Simply by waving on them, they will begin to fly. The aim of the game is to get all the UFO's off the top of the screen. However, if you wave too much on one UFO, it will blow up. Things are also complicated by a Spaceship which comes along every so often to zap your UFO's, to destroy them. However, this ship can be destroyed in a similar way to the UFO's, by simply waving on it. Overall, it's great fun, and pretty challenging on the harder difficulty levels too. Posted Image Slapstream. This game is overall, pretty meh. Whilst there's technically nothing wrong with it, it's just so generic and 'been there, done that' after you've played most of the other games on the disk. The game simply revolves around 'Ratmen' and 'Bunny Girls' (Don't ask) Popping up on one the four clouds on the screen. Simply, you have to hit the rats, and avoid the bunnies. It's just so dull though, you won't want to play it more than once or twice. Posted Image Plate Spinner. Despite the originality of this game, it's still pretty dull. Put simply, there are four plates on sticks, which all start off spinning. Basically, by waving over them, you speed them up. By leaving them, they slow down. If they are going either too fast or too slow, they will fall off the sticks. After three plates fall off, you lose. Whilst it's an interesting premise for a game, the end product is just overly tedious. Posted Image |
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| Evil Hamster | Jun 6 2007, 09:07 AM Post #2 |
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Boogie Down. Yet another game which you will want to avoid. The game is basically a memory game. There are five lights spread around the top of the screen, and before you go, they will be made to flash in a certain order. You then need to tap them in precisely that order to win. Whilst it's not all that bad, it could be done just as well without the camera, and it's hardly very exciting. You'll be bored after a couple of tries. Posted Image Ghost Catcher. This game certainly isn't one you'd want to play much. Ghosts pop up on the screen, and they can be destroyed by simply waving on them. It's not awful, it's just overly slow. The ghosts take a few seconds to kill, and there aren't ever that many on the screen. It's just not as fun as similar games such as Kung Foo. Posted Image Mirror Time. This game is perhaps the most unique game in the collection. Simply, you are placed in the middle of the screen, and there are dots in each corner of the screen: some red, some green. You have to tap the green ones and avoid the red ones. Sounds easy? It's not. The screen will flip, split and turn in different ways, meaning that it takes a while to work out which direction is which, so that you can tap the right ones. It requires quite a lot of quick thinking, and I love it. Don't be decieved by the screenshot, I just couldn't find a better one. Posted Image Rocket Rumble. Another very original game, Rocket Rumble sees you taking control of a firework show. It's fairly simple, you simply highlight the rockets you wish to detonate, and then press the detonator at the bottom of the screen. The more rockets you detonate at once, the bigger combo you get and the more points you recieve. However, the complication is that you can only detonate rockets of the same colour at the same time, unless you have a white bridge rocket, which can be used to detonate more than one colour rocket at once. It's a great idea for a game, and it works spectacularly. Posted Image Apart from the minigames, there are also a host of small little bonuses for you to muck around with. For example, there are ten or so different camera effects you can play with, such as bubbles, which fall down the screen and can be bounced around and popped, rainbow (pictured below) and blur. Whilst it's all completely pointless, it's pretty fun just to play around with when you don't want to play a game. There is also the ability to take short videos, although this is fairly useless due to the large amount of space required on the memory card for rather lo-res videos. Posted Image Overall, Eyetoy: Play is a great game if you're looking for something different. My only reason that I would advise against getting this game is that Sega Superstars offers much of the same, but does it slightly better than this game does. That said, Eyetoy: Play is still a great game in it's own right. Presentation: 8 Graphics: 5 Sound: 6 Gameplay: 7 Lasting Appeal: 8 Overall score: 7 Additional comments: I personally wouldn't recommend this over Sega Superstars, but it's a matter of opinion. One word summary: Different Worth buying: Yes |
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