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Why Robin Makes Batman Better Sony have announced a British release date for the PlayStation Eye camera. Expect it on November 7 for £25. For that money you get both the camera and the EyeCreate video editing software. Good times.
When the PlayStation Eye was first announced, we were told it was going to come bundled with something called the EyeCreate video editing suite. And that was about the last we heard of it. Until today! Sony have posted three videos to their PlayStation blog, aimed at showing off the kind of things EyeCreate can do. The accompanying text says it allows you to this: With EyeCreate you can capture darn near anything and make your own personalised videos… You can also add all sorts of cool effects, record your own sounds and export your video to the XMB. Some of the coolest features include the time-lapse capturing and the stop-motion functionality. If you want to show off your videos, you can drop your creation on a memory stick or USB drive and share it with other PS3 users.
The accompanying videos (rest at the link), however, only show some time-lapse videos to a crummy drum & bass soundtrack. Oh, one last thing before you go: it’ll also be available as a free download from October 23.
EyeCreate in Action [PlayStation.Blog]
Eye of Judgement may have Crecente and Fahey going bananas, but I snoozed through my E3 hands-on with the card based game. For those puzzled by EoJ or anyone who just doesn’t understand the appeal of SingStar, yet still wants to film their wacky PlayStation 3 antics, the PlayStation Eye will ship as a standalone product in just a few short weeks, right alongside the Eye of Judgement bundle. On October 23, PS3 owners can snap it up for a cheap $US 39.99, download the EyeCreate software and video edit their fool heads off.
The official PlayStation Blog provides a quick technical rundown of the microphone-equipped Eye, promising “upcoming games that integrate the Eye in really innovative ways”. I’m hoping that developers take advantage of that four-microphone array and explore new PlayStation Eye gameplay concepts that go beyond what the EyeToy offered.
PlayStation Eye, A Little More Info… [PlayStation.blog]
I’m really enjoying Eye of Judgement so far, but my review and impressions remain under embargo. While I can’t write about my latest time with the game, I can post this lovely close-up of an Eye of Judgement card, just so you can get a sense of what they look like and how they work. Hit the jump for the explanation.
Sure I’ve got a retail copy of Halo 3, but I’ve already finished that fight and the multiplayer co-op, that can wait for a bit. The thing that made me squeal a bit in excitement was opening up a box to find an early build of Eye of Judgement complete with the new camera, stand, playing field and two packs of cards.
Not only can I not wait to play around some more with this game (remember, I do have “skills”), but I’m even more excited about totally blowing my son’s mind when he sees it the first time. He’s going to trip out.
The stand comes packed away in a smallish plastic bag and was fairly easy to put together, though it’s not the sort of thing you’re really going to way to take apart and put together over and over again. I think I would have preferred if they had made it collapsible instead of takeapartable.
The camera looks and feels pretty solid. It has a four microphone array. You can twist the lens, switching between a red and blue selection on the front of the lens. I’m not positive what this does but think it’s either for switching between auto and manual focus or, more likely, between distance and close-up focus. If you couldn’t tell, none of this stuff came with directions.
I can’t review the game until mid-October, so you’ll have to make do with what I’ve written about the game in the past, which is that I love it.
Eye of Judgment Online Impressions [Kotaku]
Eye of Judgment may end up sucking up a lot of space at your house once you get it, but it sure does solve a whole lot of the problems with Online Trading Card Games.
The problem it solves, at least for me, is finding someone who can play a trading card game with me when I want to, where I want to without sacrificing the satisfaction of holding honest to god cards in your hands.
That sounds like a minor point, the fact that you get real cards, but it isn’t. For people like me, for a lot of people I bet, the joy of card games are the cards. Once you get rid of those and replace them with digital images and online stats you might as well be playing an elaborate game of bullshit. And don’t tell me that you can’t cheat in online trading card games, that doesn’t matter, because you can’t fondle your cards either.
I need to hold the cards in my hand when I play. Tap them on the desk as I think over strategy.
As I promised yesterday, here are some more shots of The Eye of Judgement press kit. Not shown in the following gallery is the table mat on which cards are placed and the EyeToy stand (included so that the tiny camera may stare in silent contemplation and malevolence at our puny human lives. Oh, and at the table mat).
Sadly, the review discs only work in a review PS3, so I won’t be playing it anytime soon. Which is no big deal, as I had a ball of a time with it at SCEA’s HQ in Sydney yesterday. Good times, good times.
All the Sony talk today is pure coincidence, I swear.
But, you have to admit, the box in the picture above is about as sexy as press kits get. They do not cheap out when it comes to packaging review code. The Eye of Judgement is no exception.
I’ll pull it apart tomorrow and take some more snaps of the new EyeToy, the playing cards and the board. Until then…
Note that this is not what the retail box will look like.
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The PlayStation Eye (ie EyeToy 2) and Wii Remote are kinda similar. Both rely on your movements, anyways. Can’t they just get along? Nope. CVG are intent on turning brother against brother, and asked Eye of Judgement director Kazuhito Miyaki whether he thought Sony’s new camera was a better gaming option than the Wii Remote: In Eye of Judgement it’s all about summoning the creatures. With other games it’ll be about creating a whole different dynamic so, in a way, you could say there is much more potential and ability in our technology.
He may be right! The feature-set for the new camera sounds impressive, especially the multi-directional microphone. So it might have “potential”! Then again, the new EyeToy could also have the “potential” to be played twice then put in the cupboard. Just like the old one. Sony: Eye Toy has more potential than Wii Remote [CVG]
