If you’ve heard the rumors about a new Avengers game forthcoming then you can now take it as fact. The Avengers: Battle for Earth is coming from Marvel Entertainment and Ubisoft. The tidbit that may be most surprising however, is that it will be coming out for the yet-to-be-released Wii-U and Kinect for the Xbox 360. That’s right, folks, motion controls. Looks like the phrase “Hulk Smash” could now encompass your living room furniture.
Ubisoft EMEA Marketing and Sales Director at Ubisoft, Geoffroy Sardin, promises that we will see “extensive combinations of characters, motion-controlled moves and competitive gameplay.” There is also currently over twenty different Marvel characters to be included as well as several locations familiar to fans of the Avengers universe. For more information you can check out the game’s official website here.
Call me crabby but I do not take this as great news. Although The Avengers was the best movie I had seen in years and I was excited about the prospect of a new game to go along with it. When you throw in the whole “motion control” gimmick however, I begin to lose interest. I’ve yet to play a motion controlled video game that I could stand for more than a few minutes and it will take a major shift in the gameplay to change my mind. Can Avengers: Battle for Earth sway my stance on motion controls? Only time will tell.
How about you? What do you think about this news? What are your thoughts on motion controls in general?
