GAME MACHINE, GAME MACHINE CONTROL METHOD AND PROGRAM

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a game machine where the operability of a user can be enhanced when a player character of an opponent team possesses a moving body, in a sport game carried out between a user team and the opponent team. SOLUTION: A first marker control section 72d controls the position of a marker player character selected from the player characters of the user team based on the position of the mark objective player character selected from the player characters of the opponent team and a predetermined position. A second marker control section 72e controls the position of the marker player character based on the position of the mark objective player character and the position of the moving body or the position of the player character holding the moving body. A marker control switching section 72g switches the first marker control section 72d or the second marker control section 72e based on the determining result whether or not a predetermined switching condition is satisfied. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT