14 DAY TRIAL // In the near future, most first-person shooters on consoles will be played with motion controls, at least according to Guerrilla Games, the developer of the upcoming PlayStation Move-enabled Killzone 3.
Guerrilla Games is working hard to finish up Killzone 3, its newest first-person shooter, which has support for the PlayStation Move motion control system, as well as for the regular DualShock 3 controller.
In the future, however, most shooters will have support for motion controls, as players will get accustomed to them and start seeing the advantages of using them, according to Tommy de Roos, principal programmer at Guerrilla Games.
The developer talked with CVG and expressed his ideas about Move in Killzone 3.
"I think they're opening up to it," he said. "At the beginning there was a lot of reluctance but I know that a few of them picked it up, they tried it and they were actually quite surprised at how well it worked and the extra dimension it gives you."
"You lose some of the accuracy when rotating, that becomes more difficult," he conceded.
"But you make up for that by being able to point anywhere on the screen and send your bullets flying there. So it's a trade-off and a lot of hardcore gamers are seeing that and actually some of them are starting to prefer playing with the Move."
Within a few years, most shooters are going to implement support for motion controls, no matter the player.
"These are just the initial stages. Nintendo did a lot of research there, we did some research there now and it's slowly progressing.
"I think, as this develops, in a few years most of the first-person-shooters will be played like this. I really think so. Maybe not the Move specifically but a pointing controller like this."
Do you think motion support controls are going to be implemented in future shooters or are regular controllers still going to be popular for many years to come?