E3 2010: Child of Eden uses pads

Tetsuya Mizuguchi’s Child of Eden game that premiered at E3 this week, a ”spiritual sequel” to Rez, can also use the standard next-gen controllers.

It doesn’t require you to have PlayStation Move or Kinect in order to play. In the case of Kinect, the player’s motions ‘shoot’ things to the music.

In the game you’re ”purifying” viruses that have infected numerous archives on the Internet, that most would call ”shooting”. You move the reticule over targets and then unleash single bursts. The PlayStation Move version is yet to be demonstrated.

Backstage at Ubisoft’s E3 press conference Mizuguchi-san was seen to play it with a standard controller as well, promising it will support both inputs when it releases. See the E3 trailer below for what looks like a truly stunning game visually.