*FamilyFriendlyVideoGames.com Favorite* - This was one of our favorite family-friendly video games we saw at the E3 video game trade show in Los Angeles in June.
Start the Party is a party game for PlayStation Move that uses what Sony is calling “augmented reality” to place you and your family directly into the game, with the Move “wand” taking the form of various wacky objects.
For example, you will find yourself in the center screen and need to flick the Move “wand” all around you to take out the swarming bugs on-screen. What you see on the screen is your dashing likeness, but instead of the Move controller, you are virtually “holding” a special tennis racket to swing at all the bugs.
In all, Start the Party promises to offer more than 20 mini-challenges that place you and your family directly in to the game. Up to 4 players can play at a time, although it’s mostly going to be an alternating, “take-turns” style of gameplay.
Start the Party is one of the PlayStation Move titles that we’re most excited about, because we think that family members of all skill levels will enjoy not only seeing themselves on-screen performing the wacky mini-challenges, but will also enjoy watching everyone else in their family having fun with the PlayStation Move.
INFORMATION FROM COMPANY FACT SHEET
Step into an animated augmented virtual reality in Start The Party!™, a collection of interactive social party games for the whole family. Start The Party! transforms the PlayStation®Move motion controller into an array of virtual props that players hold in their hand to twist, cut, swat, paint, pop, and jab their way through a series of fast-paced challenges requiring skill, speed and precision. Players are fully immersed into Start The Party! as the PlayStation®Eye displays the players and their surroundings within the game’s colorful user interface, making them the star of the game.
KEY FEATURES:
• Compete in interactive mini-games like Swat It, Cut It, Paint It, Light It, and Pop It that require players to use props that virtually appear in their hands to rack up points and improve their score.
• Entertaining and fun to play solo or with a group of friends and family, Start The Party! supports a single player Custom mode, a Survival mode, and even a pass-and-play multiplayer Party mode.
• Capture and record video and audio with the PlayStation Eye to personalize each player’s character.
• Start The Party! can be played with 1-4 players using pass-and-play gameplay with a single PlayStation Move motion controller.