Playstation Move Heroes Review

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PLATFORM: PS3   

DEVELOPER: NIHILISTIC

PUBLISHER: SONY

RELEASE DATE: OUT NOW

Playstation Move Heroes had all the hallmarks of a classic platform cross over when I first heard of its development, bringing together six of the best loved characters from some of the biggest Playstation games. Sly and Bentley, Jak and Daxter are all teamed up with Rachet and Clank and all with the added bonus of being a Move specific game.

Rather than the platform game you may have expected Move Heroes is a made up of a series of mini games designed to show off the Move controller. Apart from the recognisable characters this ends up being like all disk made up of mini games, not much more than a tech demo that is fun for a while but you won’t be playing this for weeks and weeks.

Without wanting to sound negative about this game it does have lots of redeeming factors. The graphics are quite nice and the animation of the characters is brilliant. The settings are instantly recognisable from the iconic worlds and the music is really quite good and as always the scripting does throw up tons of laughs.

As it is a game designed for the Move controller you would expect it to work perfectly and as always the Move controller does its job brilliantly, but by now we have come to expect that. I’m a huge fan of the Move controller and I think it can add a lot to games so while these mini games are a nice demo, they don’t really do anything that hasn’t been done before.

The different game types can include versions of bowling, shooting, throwing disks or wielding axes. Controlling a flying disk by twisting and turning your hand is a nice touch and while it is lots of fun in the beginning I worry about this games longevity. The axe wilding is a less precise and can prove quite difficult to control the view and attack enemies.

It is all loosely tied together with a story that is a bit strange to say the least. Which involves an evil force that has stolen parts of each of the heroes home worlds. The heroes are brought together to form a super squad armed with a new arsenal of weapons to restore order.

Overall : Playstation Move Heroes doesn’t set the world alight. Like many of the launch titles it is fun, for a while but the novelty soon wears off. The lack of a compelling story makes it hard to keep coming back to. It is the type of game that would have been brilliant in a launch bundle but right now there are much better games out there to show off the Move. Kids I think will get a lot more out of the game than the adults

SCORE 5/10

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