14 DAY TRIAL // Motion controls are one of the newest trends to hit the gaming industry. From the ground work laid out by Nintendo with its Wii console to the new improvements touted by Microsoft and Sony through their own systems, it seems that gamers will be in for quite a lot of movement in the future.
One developer who is extremely excited about them, especially about Microsoft's Project Natal, is the head of the EA Bright Light studio, Harvey Elliott. He recently talked with Videogamer and revealed that the possibilities brought forward by Natal were numerous and that we would certainly see him and his team working with it.
“It looks awesome,” Elliott said. “I just think it looks lovely. I was really impressed by what they had to show and I'm positive we'll be making games for it. Anything like that where you can broaden your audience or the way people access games, I think is perfect. We'd love to see stuff on it. Whether it's this Boom Blox, I don't know.”
Asked whether or not the Natal-enabled Xbox 360 platform would be a direction for the Boom Blox series, Elliott revealed that: “Yes, I could imagine games like this playing on Natal. But I also think that Boom Blox really captured the essence of the Wii, and I think it works for the Wii, it's designed for the Wii. I think for Natal there are things out there that would do the same job that Boom Blox did for the Wii, that we could do for Natal.”
Even though we might not see the popular franchise on the Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3, the fact of the matter remains that if the new motion sensitive technologies are carefully revealed to developers so that they can create new and interesting experiences, then gamers will embrace them with open arms.