PlayStation Move Shooting Attachment

The Sony PlayStation Move is a solid platform for casual gaming, but it lacks decent shoot-em-up functionality out of the box. Shooting with one of the Move wands is like watching a Star Trek battle where the crew is armed with those lame Type 1 phasers that look like cell phones— unsatisfying. Because, as America knows, there's just something about a gun, and now Sony brings that something to the Move, in the form of the rather blandly-named PlayStation Move Shooting Attachment.

Sony's offering isn't the first pistol for the Move, but it stands out on the basis of its fun, cartoony looks. The attachment is a chunky, curvy red and white plastic pistol grip with an oversized barrel into which a PlayStation Move wand fits. There's a trigger, of course, and Start and Select buttons are on the right and left sides of the gun barrel for off-hand access. The remaining Move wand buttons are directly accessible on the top of the gun barrel via a cutout area. The gun feels solid, and has a decent heft once the wand it installed. It looks cool in a reasonably non-threatening retro raygun style that probably won't freak out the average parent too much, but still lets you sight down a fully extended arm at bad guys.

Released simultaneously with the Shooting Attachment is "The Shoot," a new game that lets PlayStation Move players take advantage of their new pistol in a first-person arcade shooter that pits them against robots, monsters, cowboys and so on. The idea is that the heroes are shooting action movies—the one complication is that there are extras on the set who they have to avoid filling full of lead, otherwise they lose one of their "takes," which is what passes for lives in this game.

The PlayStation Move Shooting Attachment and "The Shoot" sell for $20 and $40, respectively.