Nintendo Console | Sports Champions For PlayStation Move Review

September 2, 2010 – 12:28 am

Sports Champions is probably the PlayStation Move game you’re going to hear most talk about: it’s being sold along with the controllers in certain bundles, and it’s stuffed full of mini games imitating real life sports, a formula which worked rather well for Nintendo. Does it work here too? Find out in our full Sports Champions for PlayStation Move review.

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We’ll go through the sports one by one for you: there are only six in all, which is a bit disappointing, but there’s some fun to be had in unlocking new characters and proceeding through the tournament difficulty levels. Get a feel for what to expect in the video below too:

GladiatorGladiator is fun, but like boxing in Wii Sports, it does tire quite quickly. Using one PlayStation Move controller or two, you control both your shield and sword, and duck, slash, jump, butt and stab your opponent in a surprisingly brutal fight to the death (or bottom of the health bar), complete with Soul Calibur style ring outs. It certainly feels like how the next Zelda should be controlled, but it’s sometimes unresponsive, and we felt that too many swipes and slashes went unrecognised.

Table tennisBy far our favourite event in Sports Champions for PlayStation Move. This one game more than anything else exemplifies just how superior the technology in the PlayStation Move is compared to the Wii. For all of the tennis type games on Nintendo’s console, none come close to mapping the precise actions that you can here. Hold the PlayStation Move controller as you would a paddle, and you can get some thumping rallies going, where crucially, you always feel like your on-screen player reacts as you do, and in a timely fashion. Bronze level makes it pretty hard to thump the ball out of bounds, but crank up the difficulty to silver or gold and things become much more competitive.

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Disc golfUm. Is this a thing? Are there miniature golf courses somewhere, with electrified fences instead of holes that you’re supposed to aim frisbees at? Because we have no idea where the idea for this came from. It works, and the frisbee generally arcs as you tell it to (the PS3 can tell when you’re throwing from inside or outside your body), but we can’t say it felt any more precise than the frisbee event in Wii Sports Resort.

ArcheryThis one’s good for a mild laugh: you simply shoot at a series of escalating (moving) targets with your bow and arrow. This event in Sports Champions works much better with two PlayStation Move controllers, as with one, it simply feels like pointing at a target and shooting. With two, you have to reach over your shoulder to pull an arrow from your quiver, then draw the two apart like the bow and string. It works surprisingly well, and makes aiming trickier.

BocceThis game reminiscent of boules is executed very well, in that the PlayStation Move lets you make deft throws with good estimations of spin and bounce. The problem is, Bocce itself is incredibly slow and dull, and Sports Champions’ bid for photorealistic graphics and characters doesn’t help this. Where are the blue shells and banana skins? We’re not sure how large the audience for Bocce fans who own a PS3 and PlayStation Move is, but this key demographic will definitely be pleased at any rate.

VolleyballThe weakest game in Sports Champions, this feels as though it could have been done just as easily on a Wii. You have no real control over your character’s movement, beyond lifting to serve and choosing whether to set your teammate up or thump it over the net yourself.

Sports Champions makes sense as a launch title for PlayStation Move: it taps into that Wii Sports spirit that made the Wii a mainstream sensation. The graphics are rich and detailed, and a few of the events are quality, offering plenty of replay value. But all the spark of Nintendo’s Wii Sports games are missing: instead you have a dry imitation, complete with odd sports, no quirks, and vaguely racist typecast human characters (See the Black and Asian characters) lacking the charm of your Mii. Still, the multiplayer options are solid: Kung Fu Rider is more of a laugh, but you’ll be playing Sports Champions for PlayStation Move for much longer.

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