With details of the 3DS retail package now available, people quickly caught on to the content listing; the 3DS would come with six Augmented Reality cards, as well as additional packed in AR games. However, Nintendo had only shown two or three demos to the public. What other games would be included? It seems Wired has the answer, revealing details of new AR games likely to be bundled with the system.
First up is a game called 'AR Shot', which can best be described as a combination of billiards and golf. Using the AR card as a reference point, this game will warp the terrain of whatever you're pointing the camera at into hills and valleys, which act as a obstacle course of sorts as players try and tap a ball into the goal.
AR Shot.
Next up is 'Fishing', which is pretty self explanatory. Here the surface you are looking at is transformed into a rippling lake, and using the system's gyroscope players can tilt a fishing rod in and out of the water to catch fish.
AR Fishing.
Then there's 'Graffiti', a simplistic art based program, which allows players to access various visual effects, such as fire, and 'paint' them on the real-time environment.
On the simpler side of things, 'Star Pics' makes use of bundled AR Cards, each of which are printed with an iconic Nintendo character, including Mario, Kirby, Samus Aran, Link, and the Pikmin. Pointing the 3D camera at these cards will produce a 3D render of the character atop the card, which can then be posed and photographed.
Lastly, 'Mii Pics' offers a similar experience to 'Star Pics', instead rendering a 3D model of your Mii in the real world to be posed and photographed.
Nintendo are yet to give confirmation as to whether or not these are indeed the various AR Cards and AR Games to be bundled with the system, but with the Japanese release just around the corner we wont have to wait long to know for sure.
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