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Platform: Playstation
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LifeLine
If
there’s any one mantra behind the mechanics of LifeLine, it’s the
expression, “When I say ‘Jump!’ You say ‘How High?’”
Utilizing the PS2 headset, Konami’s upcoming voice command
oriented action title will really put Sony’s peripheral through its
paces as it recognizes over 5,000 words and 100,000 phrases.
Now
we’ve seen the use of voice command in games to a limited degree in
the past with titles like Seaman on the Dreamcast, but this will be
the first time a game has used the feature to such an extent in a highly
frenetic, fast-paced environment like one would expect from an action
game as opposed to simply telling a creepy looking sea creature what
to do.
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The use of the PS2 headset comes directly from how the story unfolds in LifeLine. Taking place on an orbital hotel, the station comes under attack and when you come to you discover that you have become trapped in the hotel’s main control center. Shortly thereafter you discover one of the hotel’s guests, Rio, has survived the attack. From here players must use the various station systems, like security cameras and the ability to unlock doors, to help guide Rio to you and free you from the control room. Since you have control of the cameras you can see what’s going on around Rio and give commands accordingly through |
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the
headset.
This allows players to explore the station, help protect Rio from
attacks, and also find out what caused the attack on the hotel in the
first place.
With
such a huge vocabulary present for LifeLine to understand, players
shouldn’t have to worry about playing a semantics game just to get Rio
to perform an action. One
of the nice things about the voice command system is that players
won’t need to be extremely specific about objects in the game.
If you can’t recognize an object exactly, just give a decent
description of it and chances are Rio will know what you’re talking
about.
Features: -
Revolutionary gameplay experience! In
a lot of ways LifeLine appears to bare similarities to the old Infocom
text adventures of the 1980s, telling characters to “Inspect the large
chair”, “Shoot the enemy”, “Steal Mr. Proctor’s watch”, and
so forth. But with this command oriented gameplay having been refined
so much and combined with the player having access to a number of
computer systems on the space station, LifeLine could really kick the
door open for a new gameplay feature in how it makes use of voice
commands in a game. Mr.
Nash (February 21, 2004) |
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