EyeToy for the PS2

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"A new gaming experience for all the family" or another junk peripheral to go in the cupboard, along with your Mad Katz steering wheel and R.O.B.? The games don't look so great but the idea sounds fun. Has anyone played with an EyeToy yet?

― gobemouche, Thursday, 31 July 2003 11:28 (twenty-two years ago)

What does it do?

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Thursday, 31 July 2003 11:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes. It is fun.

That said the magic eyetoy cannot distinguish between the person playing the game and their drunken mate arsting about at the back of the screen. This might well be the key factor preventing 'proper' games being developed for them.

Good thing about the eyetoy - it brings back the game and watch level of complexity.

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 31 July 2003 11:35 (twenty-two years ago)

EK: it's a webcam thingy which you put on top of the TV and links to the PS2, so you can interact in real space with objects on the screen. So the screen will show you standing in your living room, and then computer ninjas will move across the screen, and you hit at where they are and the computer detects it and the ninja gets squashed.

It's one of those things where one picture explains it very very simply and immediately but I can't be arsed.

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 31 July 2003 12:10 (twenty-two years ago)

I had a go and it WAS fun but I don't know if it'll catch on. Word is that they're really gonna try and make it more than just a fad and develop some decent games for it. I doubt this somewhat and reckon it'll go down the same way as the Nintendo SuperScope and the Sega MegaCD.

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 31 July 2003 12:12 (twenty-two years ago)

The thing is it's only 40 quid - same as a new PS2 game and you'll get easily as much entertainment out of it. They've got the price point right I reckon.

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 31 July 2003 12:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh yeah, I think I've seen that. How sensitive is it though? I imagine trying to attack a ninja using a complex limbo-ballet trick, and having my grace converted into one of sixteen predefined moves (and often the wrong one).

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Thursday, 31 July 2003 12:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Well the you that appears on the screen is an on-camera you, not a graphic representation of you. So there's no conversion.

I don't know how sensitive it is - it can't differentiate between the user and the users mates (so you can get big scores by standing behind someone and doing the Shiva thing), and the games are all pretty crude so far.

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 31 July 2003 12:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Sounds like the perfect drunken game for the start of a long night.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 31 July 2003 13:16 (twenty-two years ago)

two friends and i had SO MUCH FUN with it. and we weren't even drunk.

plus, more games on the way, apparently:
http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=52766

― colette (a2lette), Thursday, 31 July 2003 13:17 (twenty-two years ago)

five years pass...

lol wii

― NotEnough, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 09:19 (seventeen years ago)

Ha, I wonder whether this was the first time I ever got mentioned on ILX - I was one of the two friends colette refers to, and this predates my own first post by about 9 months.

― JimD, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 09:24 (seventeen years ago)

i somehow got this, hacked it and used it as a webcam for a while, razorsharp.

― Ludo, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 10:48 (seventeen years ago)

Yeah, mine still sits plugged into my desktop.

― JimD, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 10:53 (seventeen years ago)

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