EYETOY: PLAY 2
This, the second
Play game in the innovative EyeToy series (with its USB camera peripheral attached to your PS2 consol which turns you into the controls and places you inside the game), contains a range of active party games. They cover such wide ground as Air Guitar, Bubblepop, DIY, Drummin', Goal Attack, Homerun, Knockout, Kung 2, Monkeybars, Mr. Chef, Secret Agent, and Table Tennis, and you can let it flip through randomly (avoiding hogging your favourites). New options allow you to record, save & play back video messages - the camera also picks up audio. The new SpyToy segment gives you a few fun options: Alarm Mode (motion detection, audio detection) takes a pic or records audio when the camera is triggered in an empty room - spouting a message you've made beforehand. Stealth Mode does so quietly, if you want to catch unauthorized people scratching around your stuff! Time Lapse Mode takes a picture at the set time of your choice. It then lists a strip of all the motion-detected pictures taken to identify the culprits! The Playroom houses all of the EyeToy experiments. Create EyeToy Cameo - maps your face from the front- & side-view, clicking strategic points - it takes a while to load, but it's great fun once it's done as you can select a hairstyle, your sex and age, and then once your head pops up, rotate & zoom, and make it express emotions like joy, fear, anger, surprise, wink, grin, smile, yawn etc. Some people may find it a bit creepy. Remember to aim right when you map your face, or you might end up with a Michael Jackson nose like I did! Audio activated games like Sonic Sub uses voice activated high & low pitches to make a submarine ride through caverns. You also get Colour-Cam, Cut Out-Cam (makes you invisible like the Predator or places you on a variety of cosmic planets - a flip-out for acid-freaks!), and other extra options include bopping a crash test dummy's head on a spring. An EyeToy camera and Singstar microphones at a party is always a good idea.

5 / A
- PB


1 2 3 4 5 6
A - B - C


all reviews by paul blom
(unless stated otherwise)

6 - Volcanic
5 - Blistering
4 - Hot
3 - Smolder
2 - Room Temp.
1 - Fizzled
0 - Extinguished

A:Long Term Shelf Life
B:Deserves Another Play
C:Once Should Suffice


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