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Novint signs deal with EA Sports
Author: Joe MartinPublished: 18th April 2008
The Novint Falcon will now be getting support in future EA Sports games.
For those of you who don't remember, we reviewed the Novint Falcon a while back and came away suitably impressed. A sort of next generation joystick, the Falcon uses a selection of motors which oppose player movement in certain ways to give accurate sensations of weight, texture and momentum.
In other words, when you use it to pick something up in Half-Life 2 then you can actually feel how heavy that something is, what it is made of and how it feels in your hand.
Thankfully, now our major concern about the revolutionary PC controller (a lack of support from publishers) has now been addressed and EA Sports will be including support for the Falcon in future games such as Madden, NFL, Need for Speed and, yes, even Battlefield.
Trust us, you won't believe the Falcon until you've tried it in a shooter and directly felt the recoil of firing in-game guns.
There's no word on which games will be offering support when, but the press release is making all the right sounds by the look of it and we can't wait to break out another Haptx-enabled game. Let us know what you think of the Novint Falcon in the forums.
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Like...as a force feedback joystick has been doing for over half a decade? It's fun! but terribly inprecise ;-)
If it is sold for a reasonable price I would seriously consider trying it out.
You can not believe it until you tried it.
Read the articles that have been written about it, e.g. PC Magazine: This beautifully crafted controller provides a uniquely immersive gaming experience. The Novint Falcon is more advanced than any gaming peripheral on the market, period.
MTV: Forget traditional controllers... or a mouse... or a joystick. Meet the Falcon. It's brand new kind of game controller for the PC... basically, it's a small robot that lets you feel hi-fi 3D force feedback. Great for the gamer who wants to actually feel the game they're playing.
Computer Gaming World: BEST. PERIPHERAL. EVER. Forget Nintendoâs Wii-mote; Novint Technologiesâ Falcon is a three-dimensional controller that adds a whole new layer to gaming.
Popular Mechanics: Novint Falcon Haptics Controller Could Be Wii 2.0. Playing with the Novint Falcon feels like nothing you've tried before.
IGN: The Half Life 2 experience with the Falcon is arguably worth the price of admission in and of itself. The Falcon hardware is certainly capable of ushering in an entirely new style of videogaming well beyond recent innovations built upon the Nintendo Wii's controller.
and of course most important:
BIT-TECH.net: It takes force feedback to its natural evolution and is pretty much a revolution in terms of gameplay.... Is it the coolest peripheral weâve ever had our hands on? Undoubtedly and, although the comparison has probably been used before and is a bit unfair to start with, the Novint puts the Wiimote to shame in many regards.