Looks like Kinect is real, with USA Today detailing the system previously known as Natal’s first games. Microsoft’s Marc Whitten credits Nintendo with setting things in motion, naturally, says the website:
“They have done some amazing things and brought new people to the category. This is fundamentally different. It’s (about) my body being the controller (and) being able to communicate with just my voice to the system.”
These are the games USA Today lists as being ‘in the works’:
- Kinectimals lets you train and play with 20 different virtual cats, including a lion, cheetah and tiger.
- Joyride, a racing game, lets players use their hands to hold an imaginary steering wheel — pull your hands toward you and push back out for an acceleration boost — and their bodies to execute jumps and tricks.
- Kinect Sports has six activities including boxing, bowling, beach volleyball, track and field, soccer and table tennis. To serve a volleyball, you mimic the real motion; in soccer, you can kick the ball or do a header
- Kinect Adventures includes a river-raft time trial and obstacle course, playable by up to four players. On the raft, playing as a duo, you and a partner must lean one way or another to steer. Jumping helps the raft reach special areas for extra points
- Dance Central, in development by MTV Games, brings a So You Think You Can Dance experience home.
- Star Wars characters and iconic Disney favorites will be featured in separate new games being developed at Microsoft in conjunction with LucasArts and Disney.
“For lots of people, [the] controller is a barrier,” says creative director Kudo Tsunoda. “We set out to make a new control paradigm where anybody can get in and play, without having to read the instructions or learn a complicated set of controls.”
We’ll have everything from the Natal conference in the morning.
icuyesido
Kinect, sounds like a toy I played with when I was a kid! XD
hazelam
kinectimals sounds a lot like eyepet.
and are they really going to call their sports minigame collection kinect sports?
and i can tell you one thing, joyride will be a pain in the arse, and the arms come to think of it, to play, those kind of motion controls for steering don’t work very well with a wiimote, they don’t work very well with the motion controls in the sixaxis, and i doubt they’ll work very well here.
and the accelerator and brakes done the way they describe? sounds like a nightmare to control, and what about using powerups?
and people are gonna get annoyed when they spin off for the umpteenth time to scratch their nose or something.
i wasn’t interested in natal, and going on what’s been revealed so far i won’t be interested in kinect, for the record , i quite like the name, it seems to have kinetic as it’s origin and i think that’s an appropriate word to use around this, even if the games seem shit.
Boomshanks
Honestly this just sounds like EyeToy Play 4 to me. Nothing new to see here, move along everybody
spooferbarnabas
has the logo been released yet? oh and the games seem very boring to me but then i guess it’s hard to come up with innovative games for things like this and the Wii
cc_star
Sounds great, the highlights are the dance game (people on here don’t realise how popular those crappy dance DVDs are or just his well Just Dance (Wii) is selling at the top ofthe charts week after week
Star Wars will be the biggest geek appeal, augmented lightsaber duels will be amazing.
I seriously think Kinect is going to blow the public away… Sony need to get the message across why you need buttons, buy in doing so every button a game needs halves the number if people capable of playing it
Supertaxman
If both this and the new 360 design turn out to be true…
well I think that Microsoft need to get some different creative guys :P
Charmed_Fanatic
Whhhaa so its a game for Natal?
Charmed_Fanatic
Ok, have read more articles and its a new name .. hmmm :-|
spooner_22
Invizimals?? Thought that had been done before? ;p