In some levels you have whatever weapon your character of choice favors (wrench for Ratchet, cane for Sly Cooper, etc) and in some you have a gun that launches explosive shells or an energy whip. None of the characters have any benefit over the others aside from a special ability (which is all pretty much the same in the end) so it’s really just a personal choice of which character you like. All of the challenges have a sort of level flythrough before they start which you can’t skip and can get annoying as it all just feels like wasted time and doesn’t really help you when you need to play.
Look, Feel, Sound
The game looks just like the latest Ratchet and Clank games in regards to graphics. Bringing the other characters into the world means they are all on the same level graphically. If you’ve ever played a Nihilistic Ratchet and Clank game on the PS3 then you know what this looks like. Not eye-popping and slightly more cartoonish than realistic and all-in-all a fairly detailed 3D world.
The sound is of an equal level with the graphics and fairly standard for Nihilistic games as well. The game music is that sort of generic background tune that you hear and yet, don’t really hear. There are some elements of action film and sci-fi mixed in with a sort of latin beat which doesn’t really fit into the game and ends up just being ignored mostly.
Multiplayer requires two Move controllers where player one controls the main character and player two is reduced to a secondary role of assisting. It too feels rushed and incomplete, much like the whole game.
There don’t seem to be any special considerations that were made for multiplayer. You play the same levels and the same difficulty apparently. I don’t understand why they didn’t try an arena-style multiplayer beat down. The characters certainly would be interesting to pit against each other in a combat mode.
Conclusion
Overall Playstation Move Heroes is a sloppy game with a feel like it was hastily thrown together and shoehorned into a PS Move control system. It really feels like they were making this for a dual-stick controller and then changed gears partway through to make it a PS Move game, something which was a big mistake in my opinion. I look forward to an update that lets us play with just a Dualshock instead of the lame duck PS Move controls regardless of what the name of the game is. Or at least which lets us use the right side of the Dualshock instead of the left. If that updated never arrives, Playstation Move Heroes is, at most, entertaining for about ten minutes and then just feels redundant and unimpressive.
What this really is, is a vehicle which Sony is using to push Playstation Move uptake. The problem is, the game isn’t really worth purchasing and you wouldn’t be able to rent it if you didn’t have a Move kit. So in the end, I suspect it will sell very, very poorly.
