High Velocity Bowling feels like the Playstation 3's answer to Wii Bowling. I'm sure it isn't, or at least that's not the intention, but anytime you play a bowling game on a console using motion controls you can't help but thinking that.

To play the game you hold the Sixaxis by the center bit, the place where the start and select buttons are. First you set the left/right of where you want to bowl, then you select the angle, if you'd rather not be bowling straight at the pins. Finally, you swing your arm down and back and then forward as if really bowling.

It's actually a pretty comfortable feeling, but I couldn't seem to put spin on the ball and found that a little annoying. Without the spin, you're essentially using the hand motion as a gimmick because you can't screw up your bowl by accidentally turning the wrist to the left or the right. In fact, if you look carefully, at the end of the video you can see the guy demonstrating the game while he's talking to another writer, he's just flicking his hand forward to bowl, not really even paying attention to form.

The game was OK, and if the price is right I'm sure it will see at least moderate success, but it really felt like something that should just be free inside Home instead of a paid downloadable. Home does actually have free bowling, but this isn't it. Kinda strange. Brian Crecente