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| From: Sony
Category: Video Games
List Price: $69.99
Buy New: $25.00
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Rating:  50 reviews
Sales Rank: 3311
Platform: Playstation 3
Genre: other
ESRB: Teen
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 12 - 20 years
Operating System: Playstation 3
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.7
Dimensions (in): 10.9 x 10.4 x 13.7
MPN: 98133
Model: 15783051
UPC: 711719813323
EAN: 0711719813323
ASIN: B000R3BLAI
Release Date: October 24, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
Developed by Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios, JAPAN Studio, The Eye of Judgment presents a new style of gameplay where collectable trading cards, embedded with a CyberCode, are brought to life in the 3D game through use of an innovative "9 Fields" battle mat and Playstation Eye. Players compete by selecting a card and placing the coded card in front of the Playstation Eye for their respective creatures to come to life and battle on screen. Players take turns placing cards as they jostle for control; the winner is the first player to conquer five of the nine squares of the "9 Field. Players have four ways to play The Eye of Judgment: single player against their PS3, against an opponent in two-player mode, against an opponent online, or letting the PS3 play out a round with the cards the player owns. The Eye of Judgment comes with a starter deck of 30 character and spell cards manufactured by Hasbro. Pre-constructed decks and booster packs, sold separately in stores, can be purchased to strategically build the perfect deck using the 110 cards unique cards available. The Eye of Judgment is a socially engaging title that will appeal to gamers of all ages and abilities More than 100 different characters and spells will be offered via additional booster packs and pre-constructed decks, available at major retail chains. ESRB Rated T for Teen
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Collectable Cards Spring to Life October 21, 2008
Lisa Shea
There have been plenty of games that recreated playing collectible card games like Magic: The Gathering or Yu-Gi-Oh!, but none of them have done it quite like Eye of Judgment. Eye of Judgment uses an actual camera to view a playing field set out and translate the cards placed down by the player into monsters on the game screen.
The technology behind it belies the fact that, for all intents and purposes, Eye of Judgment is a regular Collectible Card Game. The difference comes from the Playstation Camera - the titular "Eye of Judgment" that's used to watch over a 3-by-3 game mat. The cards - a starter deck is included with the game, and booster packs can be bought separately and scanned in - are marked with bar codes that the Eye recognizes, and thus when they are put into their specific grid of the playing mat, they are brought to life in the form of a 3d model on the game screen.
The card game itself is reasonably simple. Creatures are summoned onto one of the nine tiles by using mana. Each creature has an attack pattern, special abilities, health, and an element. Positioning creatures advantageously (in a good position to strike enemy creatures, on a tile that matches its element) have an advantage over those not placed as well. Attacks do damage based on the attacking and defending creatures, and each creature has a certain number of health points that it can lose before it is destroyed. The objective of the game is to occupy five of the board's nine tiles.
The graphics in the game consist of the monsters "summoned" from the cards and the arena that they fight on (several different types are available). Both are pretty good, though most of the "coolness" of it comes from the fact that the monsters have been called up via cards. By themselves, the graphics aren't particularly incredible. Monsters paired up for combat engage in a little mini-arena battle using their unique attacks and techniques. Besides individual strengths and weaknesses, monsters have their own animations, sounds, and quotes - each monster seems pretty well detailed, even though the cards in the starter pack tend to be lots of the same monster. It encourages you to go out and buy more cards just to see how they look in 3d, which is more than can be said of a lot of collectible card games.
The only difficult part of the game is, perhaps, the Eye itself - the Playstation camera is for whatever reason difficult to align properly so that it can see the entire board, and as such even with a flat playing field the camera was sometimes not seeing enough of the field, or not enough of one side. As such, the cards on that side wouldn't register. Also, the interaction between the hand putting down cards and the field were kind of wonky, as well; putting a hand over a card would sometimes make the game forget it was there (though this is more a problem in short-term modes like the battle arena than in the actual games).
As a whole, Eye of Judgment is a neat idea with a good execution. Online multiplayer and booster packs both add life to the game, and though it does start to feel sort of commercial, the same is true of any other CCG as well. At the very least, Eye of Judgment delivers the long-awaited fantasy of putting down a card and having a computer-generated monster pop up - at least in some form, anyways.
8/10.
 Great Idea - Bad Implementation October 13, 2008
John W. Davison (Florence, KY United States)
Pros
* excellent game design
* balanced cards
* good graphics
Cons
* horrible implementation
* cards cost $$$
While I really enjoyed this game for the short few weeks that I played it, I quickly became annoyed trying to get the eye to read the cards. You have to have just the right amount of light for it to work. And you have to pay extra if you want to see some more cards.
The fact that you actually have to "play" the cards makes it a unique game. Eye games can be fun. But they could have done so much more with this game. Hopefully they'll take the ideas they got from this development and make something better next time.
Fans of Trading Card Games will Love This July 15, 2008
solidgoldmini (NJ)
For fans of trading card games like Magic: The Gathering, The Eye of Judgment will prove to be a fun and challenging game.
The game is very well put together-from the innovative camera system which works nearly perfectly reading the cards and making the action come alive on-screen, to the challenging game itself with many strategic aspects from building a deck to deciding how to play your hand.
The only thing that may be considered lacking would be a story-mode or more encompassing single player game. But when it comes to trading card games, sometimes an exhausting story can get in the way of just wanting to play a duel. (Some may remember the old PC game of Magic: The Gathering which included a story mode. All the reviews at that time were the opposite-many said they should have scrapped the story mode because players just come for the duels.)
As the other reviewer mentioned, this game and it's included PS3 Eye make a great start to the game. Once you get into it, you will want to get other decks and cards, but that's always been the draw of trading card games, and it's fun to get the booster packs and find out what new cards you find.
If you're a trading card game fan, you won't be disappointed with this game!
easy to play card game July 11, 2008
Evan Su (Garden Grove, California)
cards are read by the camera and appear on the screen, makes it easy to play.
you get one starter deck, 30 cards, and 8 cards from a booster. the booster had a couple repeats from my starter deck.
it's fun for the first couple hours but you'll find yourself wanting new and better cards.
when you play, there is no storyline or campaign, you can play against the computer or against a friend (you can't out of the box). only get this game if you're planning to buy 1-2 more decks.
 Where did the day go? June 25, 2008
C. G. (Arlington, VA)
I opened up the Eye of Judgement today and went through the tutorial and started playing right away. I held off in using the booster pack. I kept it sealed until I felt I deserved the new cards. Maybe I would treat myself if I could beat the computer twice in a row. I honestly don't know where the time went. It had been 6 hours and I hadn't even thought about the booster pack. I was taking a quick break to grab something from the fridge when I happened to see the pack under the box. It is so much fun to see the cards being read by the camera and then brought to life on the screen. I am worried, however, because I want more cards. New cards. Different creatures. Brand new spells. I'm heading out first thing tomorrow for more booster packs, as soon as I play a few hands to get warmed up. Perhaps I can work in lunch somewhere along the way. I am obsessed with this game. If you buy it maybe we can play together on line someday.
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