Customer Reviews

Eye of Judgment

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4 star:		(18)
3 star:		(8)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(5)

 

 

Ok so I was pretty down on this game when I read about it. First I have never been in CCG games(collectible card games I think?). Although I applauded SONY for the idea, I never planned to get the game myself. However because it came with the PSEYE (EyeToy camera v2) and I saw it on a pre-order sale on Amazon for 59.99, I snatched it up. It also comes with a starter pack (30 cards) and a random booster pack (8 cards) both which are worth $15 and $4 respectively. The PS EYE cost $39.99 which in total comes out close to 50 dollars in value without the game! Then you have the camera stand and the mat and you can see why this game is a steal at $60 and extremely well priced at 69.99. Of course it can add up to much more than a hundred if you're a serious card collector

Anyway so on to my story, I am still learning the game but I can honestly say I am hooked. My brain cannot stop thinking of strategies, which reminds of of the days I used to be addicted to Age Of EmpireII. A Few matches in and the whole day is gone! Its scary actually and I am afraid this game will take over and leave me no time for SingStar and Uncharted during the holidays :(

Well, I have to say this is a great little package to an addictive card game which is best played with friends. Even if you never tried these types of card games before you should give this one a try. The battle system is deep and adds randomness to card choice which will be immediately clear when you start playing. In other words don't worry too much about not having the best cards. Playing online, I have seen some crazy cards out there in the wild which may clean your wallet due to jealousy since you will be buying up crazy amounts of booster packs!

If you want to play with me my PSN Id is PistolGrip. Add me! Though I am taking two days rest from it.

As always,
Pros
+ Addicting gameplay
+ Great Value
+ Comes with the PSEye camera. You can also download a cool program called Eye Create which allows you to make some cool movie effects with the camera from your PS3
+ Great fun playing with friends and even strangers online.

Cons
- Addicting gameplay, may take over free time
- I had some issues with the camera reading my cards. I did a few tricks with light and placement which greatly improve this though.
- Hard to find other geek friends that would play in person with you. :*(

I am no fan of Collectible Card Games with little time or patience for them. I however, desperately wanted a Playstation Eye and decided to get this pack to get it early.

I tried the game and I am absolutely hooked. I have been playing against the computer for a while and have finally started winning a bit. Have already unlocked two new packs for the computer.

I am going to dock a point overall because of the need to buy new cards. I haven't needed them as yet but I am guessing that in the future it will be impossible to win with the standard deck.

Overall, for those who haven't tried a CCG .. this is a cheap way to start and you get the Eye which is a must have for the PS3.

This is, by far, the most enjoyable PS3 game I have played. The concept is original (at least to the game consoles), the graphics are wonderful and most importantly, the thing is a blast to play. It's definitely going to be a "must have" for card game collectors (Magic, Star Wars, VS, etc.) but I think the game will ultimately do just as well with other gamers. Everyone who watched my friend and me play eventually asked, "Can I play the winner?"

The keys to this game is the depth of the game itself (learned quickly but hard to master) and the ability to play against the computer, against a friend in the room or over the Internet.

What rocks most about this game is that it will evolve as new cards are created and/or new rules are added through software updates. Now THAT is a game with replay value. The appeal of most games lasts for a few months (you either beat it or see everything it has to offer), but EYE is a game I believe most owners will be playing for YEARS to come.

I HIGHLY recommend this game to families. I love it, and my young son and teen daughter are now hooked too. How many PS3 games offer that kind of broad appeal?

Marking this so low simply for the false advertising in the pictures. This item shows it packaged with the camera and cards, however it is just the game. No camera, no cards, total waste of time.

I just received my Eye of Judgement. I have to say that it is amazing. I couldnt believe the cards are recognized immediately. If you enjoy card games like Magic I think you will love this adaptation. The idea of using and obtaining fields adds more of an element of strategy to the game. Now you not only have to think about creatures but also how and where you place them. When you play a spell the animation is great and the sound effects are so much fun. You actually feel like a sorcerer playing a spell. I know that sounds silly but believe me its an experience!

The images associated with the 'Eye of Judgment' game-only (no the camera, stand and mat) show it including them. If you are looking for those make sure you order the bundle.

This is the first augmented reality video game that I have ever played. As far as I know, it's the only good one out there. The familiar interface of a CCG makes it instantly accessible. The card game itself is easy enough to pick up, but very intricate and challenging to master. The game makes very effective use of elemental disposition of summoned monsters with relation to the environment of the game board. The game is primarily about strategic summons, with consideration given to the element of the summon - wood, earth, water, fire, or "biolith" (neutral) - to the locations the summon can cast in relation to its position and orientation, and to the unique effects of the summon on the board, other creatures, on the summons itself, or on your mana supply. No two cards are alike; I have not seen a single "throw-away" card yet, each one has a potential use depending on the strategy of a given deck. While the main strategy of the game is about summons, there is a healthy supply of spell cards that can seriously effect the game and, more importantly, casting most of them does not end your turn. Many spell cards are cheap or even come with a cost of 0, making them extremely viable for use in a deck.

There is no fluff in EOJ. The game is very balanced and success depends as much, or more, on one's understand of the mechanics and strategies of the board and the cards than it does on one's ability to construct a powerful and effective deck.

The fact that there are so many stats and board characteristics to keep track of make the fusion of card game and video game system a boon. Decks are set at 30 cards so you are forced to choose your cards wisely. After playing through a couple of games that used up an entire deck, I feel like the deck limit should be 40. In the eventuality that players do run out of cards, the player who runs out first is the loser, so if part of your strategy is to draw extra cards, you better be sure those cards are going to help you win in the long run.

The 110 cards currently in the set are all unique from each other. The cards themselves are beautiful and the graphics and animation animated are stunning. The only things that bug me about the game are the soundtrack (i usually turn soundtracks off anyways) and the repetitive animation of spell cards - they always start with a giant wizard head emerging from the board and intoning the card's name; this was cool at first, but it's not as dynamic and fun as all the visuals for monster attacks.

Playing this game online or off-line with a friend, or even single player against a computer opponent, I feel like I'm living in the future. EOJ is far and away the most amazing and effective use of augmented reality yet. This game is a must have for CCG fans, and provides a great forum for gamers new to the genre to get their feet wet or even dive right in - again, it's easy to learn and very accessible. Also, it's a great way to show off what your ps3 can do.

One final note - the new Playstation Eye is an incredible piece of hardware, boasting 4 directional, sound reducing, voice tracking microphones *they track the direction of your voice* two zoom levels, and 120 fps hi resolution recording. PSN offers, for free, "Eye Create", simple but fast and powerful video editing software for use with the Playstation Eye. It has dozens of special effects, has a time taps and stop motion mode, makes editing clips together really easy, and lets you create and underlay your own audio tracks. This little bonus along with the many hours of gameplay I've already enjoyed has made buying the Eye of Judgment feel like the best entertainment investment I've made in a long time.

This game is great fun and involves very much depth of thought and some practice to get good at. I picked mine up a few nights ago and had to go back for more cards tonight so my buddy could play too. Beware of this - if you plan to play with anyone else you have to buy another full deck or enough boosters to build another 30 card deck. I dont find the starter deck too weak just not as interesting as the themed sets available. I would reccomend getting extra cards pretty soon after buying the game as they make it a lot better.

I have never been a huge fan of card games because they required a bit too much imagination to be fun to me. The battle scenes and the way the cards come to life fill the gap that made me not like ccg's. This game sorta reminds me of the yu-gi-oh or however you spell it cartoon tv show. The expansion and booster packs keep things interesting and give you some cool cards and options.

No issues with my eye- but I did follow the directions! And the room is medium in terms of light.

It is a little involved learning everything but anyone who can play chess should be able to understand this-eventually.
As others mentioned this game will become a obsession and eat up much free time. I was up till 4 my first night. It is very addictive- be warned. Just as much as guitar hero if you ask me.

I really like the playing with others aspect if you can find a friend who will get into it. I don't even care about playing a card game online because I'm sure lots of people will and do cheat like crazy. It is best enjoyed with a good friend. Online might be cool with a honest friend.

Only downside to me is all the money I will have to spend to get all the cards I want, but as much as we enjoy this it will be used for a long time to come.

All of the information for this product make it sound like the playstation eye, the game mat, and cards all come with the game and all I got was the game. yes the game was brand new factory sealed but that is all I got so I am very disappointed. I was led to believe that I was getting everything and I only received the game.

The most amazing thing about this product is that it was not the hottest toy on the market at Christmastime. Perhaps this was because the PS3 platform has not completely penetrated the market, and that is the only place that this game runs as of now.

It is hard to describe in just a few words. The kit includes the "Eye", a USB camera/Microphone that is also sold separately, A cloth play pad, a stand for the camera so that it can look over the playfield and nothing else, and a starter deck, as well as the game on disk. You need all those things, a flat surface and a very well lit room, preferably one that is glare free if you use top loaders to hold your cards.

The cards are bar coded - once you get things set up, the cards will be recognized by the eye, both in position and in orientation, very rapidly. You can add a delay to the recognition so that you can reposition the card if you are slow.

This is both a video game, and a strategy trading card game. The gamefield is arranged in a 3x3 array (like a tic-tac-toe board) and the winner, simply, is the first person who controls 5 squares at the end of their turn. So what wins? Good strategy, and a good deck, and, like Yugioh, "the heart of the cards", that is, the luck of the draw. But it is a well designed game of rock-paper-scissors. Some decks have certain advantages over others, and none of the decks are sure winners when playing computer vs. computer, because the advantages automatically tend to cancel. But you can pick and choose, and try to put together a superdeck that consistently wins against the starter deck when you let the computer play against itself. You can select cards from other starter decks or from expansion packs to build your best possible deck. Like Yu-gi-oh there is one more win condition, if you need to draw and you have no card to draw from, you immediately lose.

The game is very complex. The good news about that is that the PS3 keeps track of all that for you. Well, not for you, you can make a mistake, but if you do, all the consequences of the mistake will be doled out properly, and all of the card special effects will be tracked and dealt with.

You first calibrate the game - make sure that it reads the cards properly, set up the camera orientation, and make sure that the mat is where the PS3 expects it. Then get used to playing the game. Watch the PS3 play itself for a while - then play against the PS3.

Finally, get a friend who has a deck to come over and play - or go online and play against people anywhere in the world.

Only thing I would have liked, that I could not find, was a mode where I could have sent my deck to be played by the computer at the other end, against a computer or human player. (Remote deals are handled by the computer so that the player does not get to shuffle their own cards, which reduces the probability of cheating). Online play is free through the Playstation Network, requires an internet connection, and also requires that your game be patched up and that your PS3 be patched to the current level.

Now perhaps the coolest part of the window dressing is when the cards fight - the battlefield is laid out on the screen, and the summoned monsters do a well coreographed animated dance that shows the order and results. This is entertaining for a while, and when it starts to be repetitive, you can turn it off, which has the side effect of making the game faster to play. But fans of the Yu-gi-oh TV show will enjoy this part, because, to me, it simulated the battles that the summoned monsters would have, and brings out the personalities designed into the cards.

Some of the complexities include: Magic cards, different fields that may provide bonuses or penalties for monsters depending on their type, monsters that can not be summoned until there are four monsters total on the field, the ability of some monsters to counterattack, sometimes positionally, sometimes at different phases of the battle, the decision whether to reattack with some monster(s), to summon a new monster, or both, the special monsters that can be replaced with a high level monster if they survive one round, monster special abilities that might cause you to draw or discard.

You start the game with five cards. Normally, you draw and discard, but the person who goes first does not draw on their first turn, which means that, they are one card short - which balances the advantage of going first.

One possible move is that your opponent can summon a monster that causes you to have to discard when it is destroyed, but he summons it to an opposite attribute field - causing it to be immediately destroyed, and you to immediately discard, when you have very few cards anyway. Of course, you choose what you want to discard, but now your choices are even more limited. Like I said, complex.

The eye is good enough, the stand is good enough, the cards are good enough. I would have preferred a hard cardboard playfield that folded to the cloth one. For the cost, the cards could be plastic and not cardboard so that they would be more resistant to mishandling without top loaders.

I'd pay twice as much for special Eye of Judgement matte top loaders, and 3 hole punched sheets that would hold cards in those top loaders. Some of the print on the cards is very small, so if your eyes are not perfect, you may need bright light or magnification to read it. It would have been nicer if the cards were larger, but this size is traditional so that is not a possibility.

And, as far as I can tell, there are no matte surface top loaders, at least Amazon does not carry any that I can find - so the glare inherent in the shiny plastic top loader makes it hard to use with the Eye unless you hold the are very careful with your lighting.