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Microsoft Plays Kinect Joyride Live

Last night we saw a 360 kart racer called Joyride in action for the first time. Now we've seen a closer look at the Kinect, motion-controlled racer at the Microsoft press conference, and it's looking pretty fun.

The game is bright and colorful, with the demonstrator's Avatar driving in a huge luxury car your grandparents would approve of. She controlled the car by miming steering motions in realtime. By physically twirling around and ducking, the demonstrator managed to pull of tricky stunts in the car after catching air on jumps and half-pipes.

Tsunoda revealed that Joyride will have five modes, one of which will be Stunt Mode. In this rather self-explanatory mode drivers work to pull off as many stunts as possible by being very active and wriggling around like their pants are smoldering.

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Comments
  • It looks pretty fun on the surface, but I'm hoping that more hardcore titles will be revealed. Kinect has some serious potential.

  • I saw that, and it actually looks pretty fun.

  • One of the few parts of the presentation I didn't enjoy.

  • i love the wii XD

  • Kinect Joyride... looks like Microsoft Mario kart.

  • I'll pass, Kinect is cool but it's all like cheezy games.

  • Good start into racing with Kinect.

  • Didn't look fun when I looked it up on Live yesterday.

  • if there was ferraris and porches I might be interested

  • This was supposed to be an arcade game...i don't know if i'd rather it be arcade or kinect lol.

  • I agree with Justin needs some hardcore

  • This was one of the better looking titles shown off, but still not a terribly good one in my opinion.