flOw

"There is not much to it other than eating animals, growing in size and evolving. You will eventually get to play as seven different creatures (including a credits one), but it will only take a few hours to do. Once you are done, you may only want to come back to show your friends this neat new experience. I am a big fan of new and unique ideas. This is one of them. The art direction and music of flOw make me feel that this is the Fantasia of video games. I highly recommend giving this game a look."

At the Tokyo Game Show, we came upon an unexpected, serene, aquatic action game called flOw that was just sitting there on the show floor, minding its own business, without any particularly informative English description. Luckily, Sony brought the downloadable game along to its San Francisco press event so we could try it again for ourselves and try to make some more sense of it. We also got to speak with Kellee Santiago, one of the game's original contributors, who explained a great deal about this mysterious game that will be available as an "e-distributed" title for the PlayStation 3 shortly after the system's launch next month.

"There's not an awful lot of game here, but flOw still makes for an attractive and soothing showpiece."