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Jak Fights In Sly Cooper's World Thanks To A Game With A New Name

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The game formerly known as Heroes on the Move is now PlayStation Move Heroes. It's still coming the the PlayStation 3 next year, still stars Jak, Daxter, Ratchet, Clank, Sly Cooper and Bentley. Still motion-controlled. Here's a new level.

I shot video of this PlayStation Move Heroes level late last week at a Sony event tied to New York Comic-Con. You'll see one of the main gameplay types, a survival battle that requires the player to beat a fixed number of enemies. Each level of the game is set up in a confined space, requiring the player to finish a specific challenge. You can play as any of the main PlayStation mascot heroes or, in co-op, as one of the signature duos (you can't mix and have, say, Jak and Clank teamed up in co-op).

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At first glance PlayStation Move Heroes seems like it might just be a PlayStation-mascot-branded mini-game collection, but its developers stress that there is depth here. The game is controlled with a Move wand and either a DualShock or Navigation Controller in the other hand for analog-stick control. While there is no big world of adventure in PlayStation Move Heroes, as you can see, a level has scale and depth you wouldn't see in a carnival game.

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The developers told me that fans can expect references to just about every game the Sony heroes have started in. Even Jak X: Combat racing? Yes, even that, they said. But they wouldn't explain how.

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PlayStation Move Heroes is part of the 2011 wave of Move games, the batch Sony needs to get Move past the tech-demo phase. Here's hoping it does right by the icons it stars.