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I picked up a PS3 over the holidays and got down to playing some uncharted 1. I figured I would give the first game a whirl before grabbing the second one. I have to say its a lot of fun except for one thing that made me want to throw my controller through my television.

The motion controls for doing things in the game are totally garbage. Its almost as if someone from the marketing department said “We need to have six axis support in our game” and to which the developers replied “Oh ok well throw these stupid ass logs in the game and force you to throw grenades with the motion controls”.

At least this gave them an excuse to cover up the fact that the grenades are pretty garbage anyways. I wouldn’t have used them much even if I could aim them without looking like I’m trying to get my HD OTA antenna to pick up a signal. With SIX AXIS controls for throwing grenades, a weapon that is just not worth using (the guns are just as good at killing people) is hidden by adding controls so awful that you’ll never want to use them again. Pretty smart if you ask me.

You know what is also annoying? When you have to balance on those stupid logs the way you move the controller is opposite to what you’d expect. It took me literally the entire game to figure this out, I must have fallen off of every stupid log in the game.

I figured this must have been an isolated incident so I fired up a game I borrowed from a buddy of mine, Heavenly Sword. So I get to this cannon ball section and I have to steer cannon balls with the stupid controller. I pretty much shut the game off right there as I feared I might hulk out and start smashing my newly acquired PS3.

Just because the controller has a sensor in it doesn’t mean you need to use it. In fact I would venture to say even if you think you have a great idea for a motion control, you really don’t. Just kill that thought. Tacking sixaxis onto a game that was never designed for motion control is the single most stupid thing I can think of. If there are any games out there that use this well let me know because right now I’m at 0 for 2.