Game Reviews

This year's E3 was clogged with big hardware announcements from each of The Big Three (Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony) along with the usual deluge of hands-on time with tomorrow's biggest games. Thankfully that didn't stop some of the smaller game developers of the world from impressing us with their virtual creations. For me, John Daly's ProStroke Golf represented one of my first hands-on demos with PlayStation Move, so the title from Gusto Games had a lot of pressure on its little shoulders. Thankfully I enjoyed my short time spent on the driving range with both Sony's controller and John Daly's new game (though it's sadly devoid of nudity, cigarettes and drinking).

The E3 demo was admittedly limited, but it was perfectly designed to give players an idea of how the PlayStation Move will behave once it launches in the United States on September 19. As I stepped up to the mini tee box that was constructed for E3 purposes, I was told that I had to first calibrate the Move by aligning the club with a spot on the ground and tapping the trigger button the back. That essentially gave the Move a central point on the ground that it could use as a virtual ball. The size of that "ball" is changeable through the difficulty settings of the game, but for my demo it was tuned to be nice and big so as to not create frustration caused by consecutive whiffs