Looksley's Line Up: DSi Motion Tracking Game Coming to U.S.

Brandon Boyer 2:37 pm Fri Apr 23, 2010

Nintendo today confirmed that it will indeed be bringing the downloadable face-tracking DSi game above — which drummed up quite a bit of buzz when I first featured it here in February — to the US on May 17th as Looksley's Line Up.

I'll write up my long-overdue impressions of the game closer to the release date, but suffice it to say for now that it is a bit magical, provided you can operate the game under its own persnickety ideal conditions. Proper lighting, proper distance from the DS and slow, smooth movements are key to sustaining the effect, but when you get it right, it's not that far off from your own private Winscape — like the first, rough iteration of an amazing far-future technology.

Previously:

Video: Motion-tracking 3D with the DSi camera

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