For the uninitiated, the title is a reference to twitter's 140 character limit. I've been posting tweets (for those paying attention) about my Move Experience. Sadly, the night has drawn to a close, so I'll impart my experience over the last 2 hours.
If you've played a Wii, you've felt the unresponsiveness and laggy cursor problems that plague the system. You've also no doubt experienced the 480p, lo-rez, polygonal graphics of the Wii.
Were you perhaps one of the early adopters of the Wii (like I was?) did you happen to buy Red Steel? Yeah, that game was terrible. The Move, however, has nothing like that, at least right now.
First up is the equipment itself. How easy it to set up? Extremely so. You don't even need to really read the manual. If you've ever set a PS3 controller up, it's the same song and dance. You connect the camera to the PS3 first, then you connect the Move Controller to the USB port as if you were going to charge it. After that you press the PS button that's been standard ever since the console came out.
And you're done. Well, not quite, but I'll delve into that in a minute.
The XMB is extremely easy to navigate. You hold the T button down (the trigger on the underside of the Move controller), then you simply move the wand in the direction you want to navigate. The Move button (in the center of the X O Square, and Triangle) also functions like an X button.
But you don't really care about the menu navigation, do you?
The games all seem to function pretty well. Sports bundle works well, the small details are very accurate, such as the position of your sword.
My only gripe so far is the software available. It's all a lot of tech-demo stuff, and we won't see the real games until Resident Evil 5 and Heavy Rain get patched to utilize the Move controller.
Also filed under that gripe, none of the games I've played so far utilize the $30 navigation controller. It would be great to have used it during Sports Champion, but sadly the feature isn't available. Instead, you have the ability to run with two PSMove controllers, one for the shield and the other for your sword. In other words, this is the tech demo they showed at E3 2009, just gussied up as a sports title. The Archery title works exactly like that as well, it can function well with one Move controller, but I get the feeling the experience would be better with two.
I also picked up Kung-Foo Rider. The game looked outrageously hilarious, so I had to check it out. It definitely lives up to the reputation as you skate around town on a computer chair or other similarly shaped objects. Sadly, as wacky as it is, the game is kind of cut and paste. There is no story other than the basic "You have to run away from the Mafia and navigate the streets of Hong Kong to the van at the end of the level. " Even the dialogue the character says at the beginning of the level is exactly the same across all of the levels.
While Kung Fu rider gets a bit hard, at the same time I don't see that as a negative in the game by any means. The only thing that players might encounter a difficulty with is the command to speed up, which is executed by waggling the controller up and down repeatedly. The command for jump is to swipe the controller upward. Frequently, the jump overrides the speed up, unless you make very small motions to accelerate your chariot.
Verdict? For now, I'd say wait it out, or at least get the Sports Champion Bundle. I'll be posting a full video review sometime next week, perhaps after I get some real games to toy around with the Move with.
(But the Move does feel much better than the Wii, so if you have a Wii and a PS3 you owe it to yourself to upgrade to an HD console.)
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