Ubisoft Announces Racquet Sports
Predictably, we’ll soon be able to play tennis, ping-pong, badminton and squash with a Move controller.
Published: July 8, 2010
The racquet (or racket, for uncultured swine,) is a versatile piece of sporting equipment. It consists of a handle on one end, and often mostly air on the other, and it is utilized by the flailing of one’s upper extremities. Due to these qualities, the racquet is ideally suited to the method of handle-based gesticulation control that is set to invade the lives of PlayStation 3 owners in the form of PlayStation Move this coming fall. Ubisoft takes advantage of this confluence in Racquet Sports, which is due in the same period.
The plural Sports included are ping-pong, badminton, squash and tennis. The last also comes in a beach-set variant. Ubisoft promises a high degree of accuracy in the game’s ability to read one’s movements in regard to how the ball or shuttlecock is struck, though there is no evidence thus far to indicate that control of footwork is afforded. Up to four can participate if the requisite number of Move devices exist along with the space necessary to avoid inadvertent violence.
Peruse a few screenshots for confirmation of the exaggerated character designs that doubtless come to mind already, though note, too, the highly detailed background environments. Thirty such locales are said to be included, along with thirty sporting outfits, thirty coifs and fifteen racquets. It’s a shame the number of racquets is not double, if only for the symmetry it would provide. Racquet Sports was not well-received in its previous incarnation as a Wii game, but perhaps a few lessons have been learned in the interim.
The plural Sports included are ping-pong, badminton, squash and tennis. The last also comes in a beach-set variant. Ubisoft promises a high degree of accuracy in the game’s ability to read one’s movements in regard to how the ball or shuttlecock is struck, though there is no evidence thus far to indicate that control of footwork is afforded. Up to four can participate if the requisite number of Move devices exist along with the space necessary to avoid inadvertent violence.
Peruse a few screenshots for confirmation of the exaggerated character designs that doubtless come to mind already, though note, too, the highly detailed background environments. Thirty such locales are said to be included, along with thirty sporting outfits, thirty coifs and fifteen racquets. It’s a shame the number of racquets is not double, if only for the symmetry it would provide. Racquet Sports was not well-received in its previous incarnation as a Wii game, but perhaps a few lessons have been learned in the interim.
