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Eye of Judgement

Published: Mon 3 Mar, 2008 | On:

In a nutshell, the eye of judgement is a card based strategy game which allows users to place cards in front of the new ps3 eye on a provided mat and then with the magic of the ps3, watch the t.v. screen to see their creatures come to life.
In the package users are given the ps3 eye, a fancy little mat, a camera stand, a starter deck, one booster pack and of course the game. Setting up the game is childs play, users can just leave the pieces on the floor and watch as their little brothers/sisters or children set it up for you (providing you don't mind them handling your new things). After you have had the fun of setting it all users must run through tutorials and just how to tweak the camera so that the game can actually work for you. when everything is up and running you can jump into the game.
The whole point of the game is to watch as the ps3 eye scans your card and displays your creature on the screen, in this aspect it does it a bit too well. So well that people are able to simply copy the code and the top and bottom of each card and the card will, without a doubt, read the card as the read thing. This is one issue that has been addressed several times which leaves people the possibility of making a deck with whatever creatures they desire. This simply spoils it for the people who may spend money on finding that one perfect rare card, but c'est la vie.
The eye of judgement is played on a 3X3 grid and the goal of the game is to obtain five squares of the grid with five of your creature cards. Sounds simple enough. However because this game is played in a grid more than a straight line like other card games, players must now consider in what direction they must point their creatures in. Most creature cards only attack the monster in front of them and have a 'weak' spot behind them for example.
Along with this there also is different elements, basicly monsters that are the same element as the square they are on get a little extra bit of h.p. (hit points), others if they are of the opposing element than the element on the square then their h.p. will be obviously decreased. So as you can see a lot of strategy comes into play and users will never play two games the same. Along with creatures are the spell cards which may do anything from allow the user to draw more cards, change the element on a square, turn a monster to face another direction e.t.c.
The cards themselves are very well made which is obviously very important in this type of game. When they attack each other a small clip of the monsters in an arena fighting pops up. Each monster has different attacks and also different voices and also tilts a bit when you hold the card up in your hand, so immediately you can notice that sony has put a heap of time into the production of the game. At the moment just over a hundred cards are avaliable which isn't very much but thankfully the wizards of the coast are producing more and the game will be updated to include these cards as time goes on.
The negative bits to this game is well few, basicly there is no story mode, simply just a battling thingy againest a computer using different decks each time, playing by yourself however is pretty boring to be honest. So if you have access to an internet connection you can play people from across the world which is really fun but after a while you do get pretty tired of the same thing over again and again. Players can also play directly with other players but you got to buy them cards first, so if you have no friends with the game then well you can spend countless nights alone playing strangers, fun times...
The eye of judgement will appeal to a very select audience so most people won't find the game fun at all, they will mostly think of it as a pretty puzzle and inevitably give up. Before investing your money in buying this game consider this and consider whether you liked yu-gi-oh or not. I personally had heaps of fun but everyones different.