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...Zodiac is the latest bad boy to challenge Game Boy on its own turf. The new handheld combines a Palm organizer with vivid-video games and comes fully equipped with a hot graphics accelerator, analog joystick and high-res LCD screen. Designed by former Palm engineers at the Mountain View, Calif., start-up Tapwave, the Zodiac will be available for preorder on Sept. 17 at tapwave.com ($299 for 32 MB of internal flash memory and $399 for 128 MB). Greater entities than this have tried and failed to trump the mighty Game Boy, but Tapwave is stacking its deck...
...trunk beneath its hatchback. You'll also note the unusual controls: no key is necessary. Instead, you insert a small plastic unit about the size of a matchbook into a slot on the dash, then step on the brake and push the power button. Next you move a small joystick mounted on the dash to the "D" position to start moving. It seems odd at first, but it works just fine...
...PlayStation 2 add-on that uses a motion-tracking camera to transfer a player's own image into one of 12 available games - in my case Kung Foo. The player then controls the game and interacts with other characters by moving his arms, hands, legs and feet. No joystick, no buttons: if you want to kick virtual butt, use your real leg. Each EyeToy game encourages energetic movement - players...
...Audi A8 L, available June 12, may have benefited from BMW's mistake. While it features a similar, joystick-like knob, it's supplemented with manual buttons you can push when you get tired of wading through the onscreen menus. Still, we encountered some problems in our test drive. The navigation system routinely directed us to take the least convenient route to our destination. And the trunk door popped open all by itself on two separate occasions after we left...
What's more, you have the freedom to choose how to solve those problems, or even whether to solve them at all. GTA3 is a novel written with a joystick, with branching story lines that twist and turn depending on the choices you make. "People play so differently," says Terry Donovan, COO of Rockstar, the British company that makes the game. "I watched my sister play Vice City, and she just drove a moped around for an entire day." This kind of interactivity gets fans emotionally involved in ways no other game ever has. Search the Net, and you will...