sega.com — "The Nintendo Revolution presents a totally unique avenue for our developers to explore the art of game design." In Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz, players will have the ability to jump with the flick of the Nintendo Revolution controller in an upward motion.
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soapdishApr 26, 2006
From the article:` "Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz will present a mind-boggling array of gameplay innovations that will excite and challenge gamers while pushing the boundaries of imagination forward." '`An abundance of new Party Games have been creatively designed to take advantage of the Revolution controller in a multitude of ways.'So, it doesn't explicitly say that the main game will use *only* the revolution controller's motion detection, but it certainly implies that you will be able to use it to control the monkeys. There's also the matter of the party games which will use the controller, with specific examples in the article/press release.In other words RTFA!
mudhoneyApr 27, 2006
To everyone talking about the revolution's graphics capabilities, and using the red steel screen shots as an example, please consider this: The screenshots came from non-final dev kits. The revolution probably wont be as powerful as the PS3 etc but will be much better than current generation. As was mentioned above, it's up to the developers to make use of the graphical capabilities if they want to. Even if you go by the IGN specs released (taken with a grain of salt), the revolution hardware is much better than the Xbox's Celeron CPU. Measuring in htz is misleading.
teitokuApr 27, 2006
"I think that everyone is missing out on the fact that you don't actually control the Monkey Ball with the Revolution controller, but just when you flick it does the ball jump. It would be way better if you could just control the ball with the controller and ignore all this stupid jumping business."You don't think maybe you're missing out on the fact that you haven't played the game yet and can't actually preach to anybody about how the control works? Just a little, maybe? Eh?Anyways, if you want to see exactly how the game will PLAY, go get a gameboy color and kirby's tilt 'n tumble for about $20 total. Same game, same mechanics, same flick-to-jump.
johnnysoftwareApr 27, 2006
The title reminds me of a certain executive's dance video.