Rez Creator's Child of Eden Makes Motion Gaming Psychedelic

[Tom Goldman]

Rez Creator's Child of Eden Makes Motion Gaming Psychedelic


Tetsuya Mizuguchi's Child of Eden might be the coolest motion gaming experience yet.

The newest game from Tetsuya Mizuguchi, creator of Kinect [http://www.amazon.com/Rez-Online-Game-Code-Xbox-360/dp/B001LRQ988/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=videogames&qid=1276560839&sr=8-2] and Sony's PlayStation Move.

From what we can assume is actual gameplay footage of Child of Eden in the game's E3 2010 trailer, it operates just like Rez. Players shoot enemies that look like they came from a deep sea geometry class field trip on acid (sorry for the corny comparison, but it's true) along to the game's hip musical score.

Halfway through, a person appears that begins to control the action. He takes particular interest in a tentacled ball, but whether this object is an actual focus of the game or not is unknown. It seems like it would be, as the person is shown cleansing the ball which then grows into a tree, which is most likely a representation of the tree of knowledge from the garden of Eden. Hence the game's name.

Either way, it looks like motion gaming will have a very compelling experience in Mizuguchi and Q Entertainment's Child of Eden. It's planned for release on both the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.


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[Irridium]

Wow. He almost sold me on Kinect.

Definitely a better demonstration then what Microsoft gave us.

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

A game for Kinect AND Move? Certainly interesting, given the vastly different technology of the devices. And it was gorgeous, to boot.

 

[manythings]

That looks like it might be dangerous to everyone's brain... I think I'm sold.

 

[Yassen]

Err... I... umm, I still have no idea what it is you'd actually be doing in the game but it deffinately was a pretty trailer. However, if the released game is anything like that you can guantee Child of Eden will be the hottest game among stoners.

 

[hopeneverdies]

I may have just seen one of the most beautiful things that has come from the games industry. I could be just really easy to please though.

Err... I... umm, I still have no idea what it is you'd actually be doing in the game but it deffinately was a pretty trailer. However, if the released game is anything like that you can guantee Child of Eden will be the hottest game among stoners.

Rez was like that too.

In fact I wonder if he's going for the synaesthia effect like he did in Rez.

Synaesthia: Merging of the senses pretty much.

 

[Sir Kemper]

0:19

wait, Pendulum?


Anyway, On topic wow, just, wow... I might just buy Kinect if I ever had the money, just to play this.

 

[hopeneverdies]

0:19

wait, Pendulum?


Anyway, On topic wow, just, wow... I might just buy Kinect if I ever had the money, just to play this.

Looks like one of the album covers. Huh. In Silico I guess?

 

[Sir Kemper]

0:19

wait, Pendulum?


Anyway, On topic wow, just, wow... I might just buy Kinect if I ever had the money, just to play this.

Looks like one of the album covers. Huh. In Silico I guess?

Perhaps, Still, a funny coincience.

 

[V8 Ninja]

Damn you, Tetsuya, for making me want Kinetic so badly...

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

It's like Tron and Endless Ocean had a vector-graphics baby and then fed it five pounds of LSD.

It's stuff like that, not endless minigames or hokey knockoffs, that'll sell units like Kinect or Move.

 

[Julianking93]

This alone looks worthy of the PSMove.

 

[lasersandbearsohno]

As long as the move isn't as ridiculously over priced as Kinect, I know might consider it

 

[Not G. Ivingname]

Wow... That looks... wow...

Am I on something right now?

 

[ArmorArmadillo]

It looks like a screensaver. The kind of thing that is enrapturing for 5 seconds and then boring forever.

 

[Pumpkin_Eater]

This makes me actually want a Kinect.

 

[War Penguin]

... That is the trippiest thing I have ever seen. I think I'll get a Kinect [small](I'm still not used to calling it that)[/small] for this... assuming that there are other games for it that I want to.

 

[unoleian]

As a huge fan of Rez (HD), and Lumines, which I still play quite regularly, I am stoked for this title. Mizuguchi's games are some of my favorites on the Arcade.

I will spring for a Kinect if it means being able to play this. Er, eventually. If that $149 price is right....I'll be waiting a little while...