Ever since a new Steel Battalion for Kinect was announced, we have been wondering how exactly the original game's 40 plus button controller would translate into motion controls. Now we have a much better idea.
Developer Twisted Pixel is adding on to its Gunstringer Kinect game again, but the protagonist of the new content is El Diablo, lord of the underworld.
The Kinect/controller hybrid was on display at Microsoft's Spring Showcase, and we had a chance to try out the novel motion controls. Also check out the game's new trailer.
The game, due out on Xbox Live Arcade this year, is an on-rails shooter that uses Kinect, and is being developed by Panzer Dragoon creator Yukio Futatsugi.
Sly PC programmers have been playing around with Microsoft's
motion-sensing Kinect device to create interesting PC-powered
applications since the device debuted in 2010, but soon Microsoft will
support Kinect use on the PC officially.
My history with the peripheral started with skepticism, graduated into cautious optimism, and has been on a steady decline into disappointment as time goes on.
An awful game on all fronts, Blackwater is a transparent attempt to lure uninformed Kinect owners into purchasing a nearly-broken, tedious, two-hour experience under the guise of being an action-heavy FPS.
The Kinect is an amazing piece of technology. When it comes to playing games though, the very thing it was designed to do, has anything really blown you away?
Raving Rabbids: Alive and Kicking delivers the same gross-out minigames and no-nonsense stupidity that the franchise is known for, with a twist: This one uses Kinect.
It might not offer the same sights and sounds as an actual trip to
Anaheim, but families that are looking for a way to escape the winter
blues with a vacation (even a virtual one) should check it out.
The original Steel Battalion required an expensive controller that
looked as complex as an aircraft’s cockpit. From Software’s sequel to
this mech combat game only requires a Kinect, but does that mean it will
be easier to control?
