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Developer: SCEI Publisher: SCEI Release Date: Oct 23rd 2007 Genre: Misc Sub Genre: Eyetoy
The Eye of Judgment
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By Justin Pinter

The Eye of Judgment Review

Posted on October 31st, 2007 at 06:45 EDT
The Eye of Judgment blends realistic animations and helps cross the gap between paper playing gaming, which serves its purpose only through imagination, and a game which truly captures the essence of something on a camera which not even the brightest imagination can produce.
Pros
  • + Realistic card gaming adventure
  • + Great in-depth strategy play
  • + Brilliant and addictive online play
Cons
  • - No storyline
  • - Mediocre offline play
  8.0
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User rating: 9.3
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(continued from previous page) ...other creatures.

Primarily, players will want to have a variety and a blend of different unit types since the objective is to control a majority of the field---and one type of the same monsters won’t do justice. Through having this interconnection between themselves and the deck, the players get the same experience they do with any card building game such a Yu-Gi-Oh.

 
 
Just as magic and trap cards, some cards in the Eye of Judgment focus on the same aim: to shift and twist the gameplay to their advantage strategically. There are spells that trigger a field quake, which changes the field type to a secondary type located in the bottom left corner of the card. If a wooden creature is sitting on a wood field with a secondary type of water, field quaking can be a very efficient way of sending that unit to the graveyard of the opponent. Such an outcome can take a toll on anyone the player comes across, whether CPU or another person.

To play offline, gamers are pitted against a CPU opponent with the same starter deck that's included with the game’s purchase. Through defeating the CPU, players can unlock additional CPU-only decks, which are pre-constructed decks. Having these pre-constructed decks as unlockables against the CPU is actually a smart decision that can bolster sales of cards. After seeing what certain cards can do, players will most likely be more inclined to go out and attain them.

What fun would unlocking the power of such a dueling game be without any human interaction? Online competition is the major factor of the Eye of Judgment. The leaderboards take an interesting twist. There are multiple regions online and each has their own leaderboards and one that encompasses the whole map. The rankings are in no particular ladder system, which highly involves the players to play more games, as losses don’t affect the player score negatively.
 
 
Every win will provide a total of four honor points, whereas all the losses don’t contribute as much, gaining the player with one honor. In essence, the win to lose ratio isn’t the deciding factor of honor, so the top players are those who spend more time and money on the game.

Playing against human players who actually encompass a sense of logic and reason in their matches unlike the AI, is definitely the most gratifying and fun experience anyone can have with the Eye of Judgment—whether through online play or two players from one system.

Despite the excitement of the experience, Eye of Judgment has a considerable number of negatives that skid the mark of a perfect collectible card game experience---elements left in the dust. One of the biggest gripes any card game lover will have is there is no card draw online. Instead of a random card draw, the computer states which card from the player’s registered deck pulls up on each turn. It’s interesting to note that although there is an interconnection element between player and deck in the Eye of Judgment, there is a severe disconnection between the player and the process of drawing cards. Sorry Yu-Gi-Oh fans---no “Heart of the Cards” here.
 
 
A seriously depressing aspect of the game is primarily rooted into the offline play. It’s not a bad idea to fight against the computer in single player, but exactly is there any true motive or in such a light, storyline? As soon as the player pops in the game, they are greeted with one heck of an intro scene that would remind some of crazy Yu-Gi-Oh underground tablet dueling. Unfortunately, anyone will be left wondering the magical question: “Why?” What was the purpose of an intricate display if it was to serve no purpose whatsoever? In any case, such a scene only serves to detract from the overall concept of the game than add to it.

Thankfully, the interface of the Eye of Judgment is great. The mat is intricate, being dabbled by fanciful icons that are representative of the PS Eye collaboration and the video game. The menus are easy to browse through and the descriptions of the cards are easy to access and utilize. The ... (continued on next page)
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posted 6:55am EDT - October 31st, 2007
richkaos
1

This looks pretty good and just goes to show the inventiveness that surrounds all things Playstation.

posted 7:07am EDT - October 31st, 2007
lee cousins
2

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posted 8:13am EDT - October 31st, 2007
Babiloo
3

is it possible to get the pseye without getting the eye of judgment or is it only in a bundle?

posted 8:39am EDT - October 31st, 2007
Dave-The-Rave
4

this game is awesome..

@babiloo: its coming out by itself in a couple of weeks

posted 8:53am EDT - October 31st, 2007
JD-82
5

It's a cool game...a little frustrating sometimes but definately worth a buy...great fun...

posted 9:02am EDT - October 31st, 2007
Alpha2
6

The problem is it's hard to find let a lone find the camera seperately.

posted 9:25am EDT - October 31st, 2007
wiggsj
7

Anyone who has playes the game- are there lighting issues? Is standard house lighting ok or do you need to have a spotlight on it?

posted 9:33am EDT - October 31st, 2007
MagicalJoker
8

i was going to buy this game, but since it got well known that you can simply copy cards or draw barcodes for the Eye to think of it as a card, made me change my mind

posted 11:39am EDT - October 31st, 2007
madmorty
9

gr8 game u can spend hours on it its a must have!

@wiggsj... as long as u have some light (but strong) shining on it its fine (im using at spot light and it seems fine);)

 also @MagicalJoker... you can copy cards but will affect your game play and i think they will make updates so you cant copy them (i dont copy them i not a tw*t) xP

psn: madmorty

posted 1:37pm EDT - October 31st, 2007
DarkKnight09
10

Excellent game! .. I am completely hooked! Now where the #%#$$^ are all the booster packs ... you could have doubled your 1st week revenue SONY.

posted 2:27pm EDT - October 31st, 2007
Uncool
11

I'm not into much of card battling game but this game along with the new eye toy is really something I thought only depicted in anime series like Pokemon or Yu-gi-oh. To actually see this in front of you is amazing, the question is will other games like this be created ala Magic the Gathering or the games I mentioned?

posted 4:28pm EDT - October 31st, 2007
Clarky_psu
12

I can't wait to get this game, getting it for Christmas, along with Haze, Uncharted and a new 32Inch HDTV{!}

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