Taking after the Wii, the sensation of motion control, the iPhone has a game out that makes use of this function. An ad agency, Hello Viking’, has just released ‘Viking Smackdown’. The game is based around a Safari theme that manages to take control of the phone’s built-in accelerometer. To get the game, you can just visit VikingSmackdown.com from your iPhone’s browser.
The point of the game is try to get your Viking to throw his axe as far as possible by tilting your phone to the side. Once you do this, a power meter appears then just wait for it to fill and then tilt the phone right-side up to send the axe hurtling towards your mark. The farther your axe goes, all the better.
If you are thinking of getting this game, then you could be investing in a whole new wave of games that exclusively require you to use hand motions and actually work at winning the game. Maybe the PS3 and Xbox ought to follow this in a more conventional manner. Without infringement, they should make you apply this stuff by making you move the controller to look. We shall see if the consoles follow suit with the Wii; other than the small things they can do now, maybe we might see some more motion control on everything be it TVs, lights or other objects.
Via: techcrunch
