Game Reviews

The Shoot represents another PlayStation Move title that lacks depth and proper utilization of the Move’s motion control technology. With that said, it’s still a fun game to pick up and play.

Essentially, The Shoot is an on-rails light gun shooter. You all know how this works; you use the PS Move motion controller to aim at your television with pinpoint accuracy and shoot all the bad guys that pop up on screen. That pretty much sums up the experience of playing The Shoot.Luckily, The Shoot has a lot of charm working in its favor to turn an otherwise simple premise into something fun and memorable. The game’s career mode is broken into five different chapters, each representing a different genre of film. You have your Old West shootout, your monster flick, your Sci-Fi film, and so on. This adds a much needed sense of variety to the levels, making it so The Shoot doesn’t feel like the same thing over and over again, even though it basically is.

The game also provides more challenge to the player than I originally anticipated. This challenge doesn’t come from the bad guys shooting bullets and throwing knifes at you. Instead, it’s appeasing the film’s director that provides the biggest hurdle for completing a film’s shoot. You need to make sure you rack up multipliers while looking good if you want to keep the director happy. If you fail to do so, he’ll pull the plug and yell “cut.” This is basically like using a continue, of which you have five. Using up all your continues will give you a “Game Over” and you’ll have to start the entire film shoot over again. It can make each level a nerve-racking experience.