HANDS-FREE: CAMERA-CONTROLLED RACQUET SPORTS
by James Ransom-Wiley on December 10, 2009
Call to mind
Wii Sports' tennis, and you don't have to stretch your imagination too much further to arrive at Ubisoft's
Racquet Sports. If you own a Wii, you already own this experience, to which Ubisoft has added some variety, including ping-pong, badminton, squash, and beach tennis, and a more fleshed-out art direction than Nintendo's pack-in or even its sequel,
Wii Sports Resort. There's no Mii support, but
Racquet Sports offers its own dollish avatars, customized with unlockable trinkets. There's a derivative multicultural vibe, too, as the characters and playing courts span the globe in classic and fantastic scenarios. Grandma vs. dashiki-clad boy in an aquarium squash court? Yes.
Of course, the experience you
don't own is "tennis" played with a motion-tracking camera. No, not
Natal --
not at all. Ubisoft's USB camera, first bundled with
scarcely-
reviewed Your Shape (
featuring Jenny McCarthy), might be on the cutting edge of a revived and revamped gaming tech trend, but its implementation in
Racquet Sports is painfully dull.
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