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Motion gaming is synonymous with sports. Not Madden, or FIFA, or even the NBA. It's impossible to say motion gaming and not think of tennis or bowling in Wii Sports. That's just how the cultural zeitgeist works. Until Grandma and Grandpa realize that the PS3 has a lot of must-play exclusives, they're going to keep trying to hit that perfect score with their Miis. That's because Sports Champions for the Playstation Move is neither a pack-in nor is it a killer app everyone has to play. Despite that, Sports Champions is an absolute necessity for Sony in their motion gaming campaign. If the title weren't on store shelves, it would feel like a gaping hole in the Move's launch lineup. In the end, if you have a Playstation Move, you'll definitely want to pick up Sports Champions. Sports Champions readily lends itself to comparisons to Wii Sports... almost too readily. Each sport doesn't have any significant innovations. Simply choose your activity, choose your non-descript avatar, and progress through the ranks until you become a champ. Everything just feels underdeveloped, as if Wii Sports got away with it, so Sports Champions should too.
It seems as though every innovative development in video games has a sports product to show you how well it works. The Wii had Wii Sports, the Dreamcast had NFL 2K1, and Virtual Boy had Mario Tennis. Now we have the PlayStation Move and its debut pack-in effort (depending which bundle you buy), Sports Champions. Does it topple the Wii Sports experience? Ehhh, not quite, but it’s a great collection and a must if you’re looking for the definitive Move experience. Sports Champions contains six activities in all – bocce, archery, table tennis, gladiatorial duel, disc golf, and beach volleyball. All of these activities can be played with just the one Move controller, a nice sigh of relief considering the cost of a navigational controller or secondary Move, but you can hook up a second for a better experience with the volleyball, gladiator and archery games. We tried them out both ways, and the two-controller method is the way to go. You’ll still get your money’s worth with only the single Move controller though. Bocce is probably the most boring of the six activities (don\'t retirees play bocce?), as you merely roll balls at other balls, but it’s still entertaining.
Described as "the ultimate sports challenge" on its packaging, Sports Champions is a modest but varied collection of sports games that puts the PlayStation Move motion controller to good use. Almost none of the games (disc golf, beach volleyball, archery, table tennis, bocce, and gladiator duel) are obvious choices for inclusion in a collection that boasts only six different sports, but they're all fun, and while most are best enjoyed with friends, there's a good amount of single-player content as well. Like Nintendo's Wii Sports before it, Sports Champions is a game that successfully shows off the capabilities of the motion controller it's played with and is one that you're likely to return to time and time again. Regardless of which sport you choose, Sports Champions affords you the same set of gameplay options. Free Play mode supports between one and four players depending on the event (though no more than two people ever play simultaneously). Challenge mode is where you find mostly fun minigames such as a tic-tac-toe variant of archery and a gladiator duel in which you're prompted to target specific areas of your enemy.
Wii Sports must be the Holy Grail as far as developers of casual video games are concerned. That one Nintendo title has been more or less responsible for the success of the Wii, so a sports package as a launch title for PlayStation Move was a dead certainty. Of all the new controller's compatible titles, this one carries the most weight on its shoulders - but is it actually any good?To get right to the answer, Sports Champions is good, but nothing more than that. Whereas Wii Sports defined a console and its follow-up introduced a new level of precision in motion control, Sony's effort merely exists as a decent game to play with your new toy. Its selection of sports is somewhat odd, but those that work the best are decent fun and showcase the Move technology better than any of the other launch titles.The six sports on offer can be split into three groups: the excellent, the playable and the questionable. Starting with the best, Disc Golf, Archery and Bocce are all extremely fun and work very well with the Move technology. Disc Golf is similar to what we've seen in Tiger Woods on Wii, but features 18 holes set across three different environments.
When Sony first debuted the PlayStation Move, many gamers were quick to dismiss it as a simple Wii clone. Sony didn't help its cause by selecting Sports Champions â?? a collection of sports-based minigames in the same vein as Wii Sports â?? as the title to be included in the Move bundle. But after playing Sports Champions extensively, I'm confident that Sony made the right choice: No other title does as good of a job showing off the exciting feats the new peripheral can accomplish. Sports Champions offers players six games to play: table tennis, disc golf, bocce ball, archery, volley ball, and gladiator. Although none of these events offer a huge amount of depth, they deliver more variety and nuance than most gimmicky motion games have given gamers in recent years. Table tennis, disc golf, and bocce ball all feature control schemes that are so accurate and responsive that playing them feels almost as natural as their real life counterparts, yet all of them benefit from adjustable difficulty levels, and video game elements like flaming skill shots and fantasy courses. These events work so well because the game accurately translates your hand movement in real-time, instead of using exaggerated gestures to simulate movement.
First, the obvious: Sports Champions is basically Wii Sports (or rather Wii Sports Resort) for PlayStation Move. But that's not necessarily a bad thing. Just like Wii, Move is soon going to be inudated with cheap, hastily put-together minigame collections, and at its heart, Sports Champions is just that, a minigame collection. But like its Wii Sports cousins, it's composed of games you'd actually want to play. They all control well, and in some cases, they're superior to what you get on Wii. The game is easy to understand: you can choose from six different events (Disc Golf, Gladiator Duel, Archery, Beach Volleyball, Bocce, and Table Tennis), with single- and multiplayer modes for each. They can all be played with one Move controller, but some events (particularly Archery and Gladiator Duel) let you use two of the bulbous wand controllers simultaneously. Playing through the game on your own earns you rewards (like new costumes or event-specific items) you can use to customize your chosen character with, and the difficulty on each event is scaled well -- easing you in with some introductory matches and pushover opponents, before putting you up against increasingly more skilled A.I. opponents.
After what seemed like months of waiting and dreaming of glowing balls, PlayStation Move is upon us, and leading the charge on the software side of things is Sports Champions, a mini-game collection of six different sports. Sony thinks so highly of this title that it's packed in the official PlayStation Move starter pack and the official Move/PS3 bundle. And after playing with it for a little bit, it's easy to see why, thanks to its accessibility and controls – although it might not be the home run some sports fans were looking for. Buy Sports Champions, and you're getting volleyball, table tennis, disc golf, gladiator duel, bocce and archery in one package. Each game can be played with one PlayStation move controller, but a few (volleyball, gladiator and archery) support two PlayStation Move controllers per player for an even more realistic feel. Overall, the Move controls work well. Put down the sword and watch our video review. Archery seems to be the universal favorite with everyone I've played with. The act of holding the bow steady with one Move controller and pulling the other back like your arrow is simple and fun.
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Sports Champions (PlayStation Move) | $23.99 | See it |
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Sony 98177 Sport Champions Move | $33.06 | See it |
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Sport Champions - MOVE | $54.44 | See it |
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Sports Champions (Move Value Pack) [Japan Import] | $119.9 | See it |
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