Hey everyone, I hope everyone had a very merry christmas! Anyway, I recieved the XavixPort and a couple of games for it as a gift this year and I have to say it exceeded all expectations I had for it. I have baseball and bowling. Baseball is great! I played baseball all my life and this is the closest you can get to actual in game batting experience that I have found. I find myself actually applying good batting fundamentals to get hits (ie: waiting on my back foot, driving through the ball, driving breaking balls to the opposite field, etc.) You don't get to control any fielding or base running and the graphics are pretty much the equivelent to Playstation 1, but the batting and pitching does enough for me. It has a reflex mini-game as well as a a eight team tournament in which you can have all eight teams user-controlled. Bowling is fun too, though not as involved as the baseball game. You basically just aim and bowl and you can bowl with a hook, etc. It has some nice mini-games as well as tournament mode. I believe that up to four players can play at once on this one. There is a tennis game as well, which I don't have YET, but you can play two human doubles matches and tournaments. Anyway, just wanted to give everyone a heads up on this system. The system is $80 with the games each costing $50/ea. and I think you can find them at both Best Buy and Toys R Us. I have had such a fun time with this and even got my wife to actually play video games with me, which she would never do on my PS2 or XBOX. Here is thier link, check it out. http://www.xavix.com/main.htm
What kind of action do you actually do to bowl and pitch? Just make the motion while keeping the ball in your hand or something?
To Pitch: There are four buttons in which you press a combination of to throw different pitches then, when the screen tells you to throw, you throw the ball over-handed without letting it go. The faster your arm goes, the faster the pitch. So you can really change up speeds. I've actualy hit 99 mph on a fastball. Bowling: You basically do what you do at an alley. Bowl the ball without letting the ball go. Both games the system detects the exact speed, force and arm angle to effect what happens on the screen.
I'll be interested if/when they come out with a boxing game. Oh- and a swordfighting game. Hell yeah. Couldn't this be made as an add-on to existing consoles?
Why would you want to play tennis and bowling on tv? It's not that hard to find a tennis court or a bowling ally. We are going to stay home forever when virtual reality comes ture.
You beat me to it. We are approaching a world where people don't leave their living rooms. Scary. Sad. -- droxford
