CD Universe (the mob that failed to supply Rock Band) have shipped Justin’s latest game order, which contains two copies of Eye of Judgment, a trading card game that comes with a little camera. One copy is mine.
The idea is that you have a game board that you have to control the squares of – I believe it’s a 3×3 square. You play a card and your opponent tries to defeat it. The twist is that the PlayStation looks at your cards as you play and does… stuff…. on the screen… and… I guess things blow up. Then you get to take the board home or something? I don’t know, I don’t really play card games. I agreed to get a copy because I like trying different things (steady on Xavier, not quite that different) and the camera will hopefully be useful for other things down the line (like, for example, creating a user icon for PlayStation Home).
Speaking of games, I was entirely wrong about Ridge Racer 7. The trick is to not think of it as a driving game, but as an updated version of WipeOut 2097 – at which point it becomes awesome.
Who’s this “Xavier” then…?
A furry.
In further news… Eye of Judgement is awesome!
Bladestorm is strangely addictive too… not much strategy to it, but there’s some entirely awesome about taking a cavalry charge through an entire army and mowing them down while watching your kill counter yell out “100 kill combo!”.
Yes, a game set in the 100 Year War and you get combos for killing enemy squads… ridiculously awesome.
Yeah, I’m not really sold on Bladestorm and I don’t think that’s going to change… it just seems like it should be a real-time strategy game, but it’s like eating cereal without the milk… or the cereal…
or the bowl!