Star Wars Kinect alive and well

Terminal Reality briefly mentions it on on its official site.

"Whew – That was a big secret to keep!" says the developer. "We can't say much about it right now, but we're chomping at the bit to show you more."

The video shown during E3 2010, which you can see below, suggests Star Wars Kinect is an on-rails third-person action game in which the player wields an imaginary lightsaber and duels Darth Vader.

Microsoft's promised exciting Kinect-related news at its Tokyo Game Show press conference, scheduled for this Thursday. Could Star Wars Kinect play a part?

[iamnsuperman]

Star Wars should never be played on rails

[40cal]

Am I the only one that thinks that games like this would be better suited for MOVE?

[Shadow Flare]

Star Wars would be the perfect game for move. It honestly could make the best star wars game ever

[callahan09]

Star Wars is absolutely more suited for Move. If The Force Unleashed 2 sells decently enough, then we'll have Force Unleashed 3 and it will utilize Move.

[rockleex]

What next?

Rock Band without the drums or guitars? Not even the conventional controller?

In fact, Microsoft could take it a step further and not even include the Kinect camera.

Absolutely no user input.

Lets just all play air guitar, air piano, point fingers at each other saying "pew pew pew".

Oh wait, Ubisoft already did that with Laser Tag for the PC. -_-"

[nveenio]

This game and the Kinect: Harry Potter game would both be better on Move. Fortunately, Move has Sorcery. MS is just trying to get recognizable franchises to create Kinect games. It's a smart sales move, but I think that even the casual players that pick it up will wind up in disappointment.

[MartinGlow]

And yet it first comes to a controllerless system? What in the hell.

[BlackBusterCritic]

But I believe the game is fake anyway. Just look at the movement of the lightsaber and the jedi. He moves the light saber as if a real person was swinging an object in their hands around. We already know Kinect has problems detecting body movements alone, so that included with mapping a lightsaber into the players hands makes the trailer absolutely fake. Milo was said to be real OVER AND OVER again, but look how it turned out. It went from this FANTASTIC A.I. VIRTUAL BOY that recognizes you & responds to what you're saying, to a simple YES or NO path game. Its basically ME2's paragon & renegade system. Anything hyped to be "worth" anything with Kinect is rendered a lie in my book.

[Bigpappy]

It is not due until fall next year. I am not sure why everyone is saying it is on rails. I see the character in the video using a "force push" to glide in the direction he wants to move in. In any event, I will leave my judgement until closer to release.

Off topic: Why is Kinect and the games I said I wanted for it moving up Amazon charts all of a sudden? Anyone has any idea? It has even moved pass the Move again in the top 100, and along with that, K-Sports is at 50 with Dance Central and Your Shape Fitness not far behind. Interesting. There must be some mainstream news we are not getting on N4G. Or may be my list was compelling? Nah!

[oldjadedgamer]

No one doubts that kinect will sell, we just wonder why an "informed" gamer would want it?

Any answer besides sales?

[xAlmostPro]

actually the only moves your doing is the waving of your lightsaber and yeah he done a force push.. the fast glide thing looks to be the uncontrolled movement of getting to each part of the stage.. sort of like those parts in time crisis you shoot a bunch of guys then it moves by itself to the next part.. :/

[xAlmostPro]

so basically its catch the red bullets instead of balls? lol :/..

not trying to seem like a troll here(although i will so this comment is pointless) but it really does seem like that re-skined as star wars..

i totally agree its not a game that should be restricted to from what it showed 2 moves :/

[Nitrowolf2]

if it is on rails then that is the biggest fail ever
this game looks like it could be a good title for Kinect, but rails is a no-no

[iamnsuperman]

problem is it has to be.....How can you move fluidly in different directions with the kinect

[R2D2]

are not developers, only gamers - just because we can not think of a way to implement movement on kinect, that does not mean that developers cant.

[Cevapi88]

what? lifting your feet up and down to move?? that didnt take much brain power to figure out...you really think they are going to develop some amazing way for it work without rails??

[iamnsuperman]

All I was saying though is to move left and right would mean turnning you body to move your legs left and right but that means turning away from the screen which is [email protected] I hope they do think of something because what we saw at E3 (Star wars on Rails) is not promising

[xAlmostPro]

@R2D2 actually its not hard to think.. the only possible ways are buy walking on the spot or actually walking(which couldnt be done because you might end up at distances or directions kinect cant handle so it would have to be walking on the spot lol.. its on rails is what im saying lol

[mcstorm]

Kinect can pickup if you walk forward or back by getting closer and further away from the sensor plus they could make you move by dropping down your lightsaber and then moving forward and back and then raise it to stop and fight. but lets just wait and see what the developers can do with Kinect and move before any one comes out and slags them off.

[Motorola]

How can this work without a controller? The only thing that kinect can do with this game is just "the force"....actually if u had 2 move controllers it would work too...

[MicroSony4Life]

I know it defeats the whole You are the controller theme but MS is trying to draw the Wii crowd in with this slogan and I think they will achieve that.

Once the casuals are in MS will then start to focus on it hardcore fanbase with the control for Kinect - plus its much cheaper to release Kinect with just the camera.

[Moonboots]

Doing "the force" without holding anything is the whole novelty of Kinect. If I'm doing it with 2 move controllers I might as well just be holding a DS3.

I have faith in the development community to come up with some interesting ways at controls using Kinect. I'm sure there will be lots of fail but if one gets it right it will become standard. You/we/us are not necessarily the smartest guys in the room.

[Shadow Flare]

this game is a little case study as to why 99% of kinetc games will be utter horse trollop. If you have no buttons, it means traditional games do not work. They will either be on-rails crap, (see above), or super basic eyetoy games (clap clap! spin around! jump! Isnt this $150 of fun!!!)

And that is why kinetc will fail. Or at least have no games worth mentioning.

[plenty a tool]

and i agree that kinetic will be even more shit than move. but i just wish you sony fanboys would stfu! i only come into kinetic articles to see the level of fanboyism displayed by no life idiots like yourself.

remember shadowfanboy, not every ps3 owner is a sony nutsack loving loser

[Natsu X FairyTail]

The footage is fake because you dont see the guy get touched even once by all the bullets flying at him. It's like watching a Cut-scene.

[tunaks1]

RS2 is the best Jedi experience to date.

[Tangostarr]

It's cool they are trying something new but I wish they would scrap this and make a new Battlefront, Republic Commando, or even a new IP in the Star Wars universe that isn't this. Sorry if I rained on anyones parade that was looking forward to this, I just really want a new Battlefront on this generation of consoles.

EDIT: Spelling.

[ArchangelMike]

Hmmm... this is interesting, I wonder if Sony are also in talks with Lucas Arts for them to develop a Star Wars game for Move. Knowing Sony though, they've probably defered to their 1st party studios to make a game with the same sort of mechnics for Move.

Seriously though, is there any informed gamer out there who is eager to play a Star Wars game... on rails? Heck as far as I'm concerned the only on rails games that work are light gun games, anything else quickly becomes sub-par on so many different levels. But the one that I won't be able to do without is force feedback, it enhances gameplay in so many subtle ways - even the fact of simply having something in your hand enhances the gamesplay. That's why soo many people are saying M$ have to release a controller. it's not just about buttons, it's the fact that haptic feedback has become an integral part of the gaming experience! Without it, Kinect games will always be lacking something... tangible!!!

[Moonboots]

Reminds me of a scene from Back 2 the Future 2 where Marty is at the 80's nostalgia diner and plugs in the old arcade game and the kids make fun of him because he has to use his hands.

It's all about adaption and while it feels like it's integral now things can change and it's got to start some where.

A small example of this is Sony removing rumble at the launch of the PS3. Some complained and many just got use to not having it.

I agree with you however, for the immediate future force/tactical feedback is the norm for the types of games the core play. I think this is why MS are always talking about creating "new experiences" with Kinect.

[ArchangelMike]

...where? I have yet to see any new experiecnes. While Sony were busy showing tech demos and giving the public hands-on time with their tech, M$ where showing on rail games, and staged demos.

My point is that M$ have had alot of time to demonstrate some of the "new experiecnes", everyone keeps spouting, but as of yet they have not been able to. How much longer before you realise that they are simply cashing in on the Wii market in a bad way!

[despair]

other than children of eden, I cannot see any game worth playing being released for kinect, I mean without a controller every game you play no matter the genre,including racing(no acceleration or brakes), would be on rails.

No one has yet to put forward a viable kinect game that would appeal to gamers and not the Casual crowd. Even this Star wars is just an on rails game and no amount of polish will change that.

[Hades1337]

They showed a tech demo of Burnout Paradise last year whereby you just take a step forward to accelerate and step back to brake. No too complicated really.

As for Star Wars, we have only seen one video which is without doubt far from the finished product. I would reserve judgement until we have seen more.

[Time_Is_On_My_Side]

...if fighting games are too fast for Kinect, how will Star Wars light-saber duals be any better? I honestly think most of the "amazing videos" Microsoft showed wasn't real-time because the movements were pretty fast.

[Why o why]

may the flail be with you

but seriously this is gunna be how it is for the majority of games for kinect....with no controller you just cant make games that need precision. Some people will be fine with that and thats cool with me its the 'others' that annoy me. The type that feel kinect isnt limited and totally aimed at the s casuals. I just wished MS would of bit the bullet and announced a real dedicated peripheral not fool the optimists into thinking that kinect could scan everyday items and whatnot

[DigitalRaptor]

The game is totally wasted on Kinect. LucasArts, what are you thinking??

[kasasensei]

Show some real gameplay please!!!!

[EasilyTheBest]

...the original 360 one. Theres pauses in the game while a cgi and the story unfolds and it tells you to put down the controller. It then switches to Kinect and yes you have to walk on the spot in places in other parts you point to where you want to go. So yes its partly on rails and partly its not...

[UP]

that is the dumbest control scheme I have ever heard.

[Trebius]

Cause thats a recipe for disaster lol.

Kinect is a joke.

[Moonboots]

Sounds weird and overly complicated BUT I will not write it off until I see it. I just don't want %100 on rails.

[GuruStarr78]

It would be cool if they would re-make the JEDI KNIGHT games in HD on PS3 with Move support.

[etownone]

yup ... totally agree

[Xander-RKoS]

Oh that's...good?

[alb1899]

You say you wont buy kinect and that is stupid who buys it but you can not denied that everyone who spend his time to read every article that has been writen about kinect is at least Intrigated about kinect.

[rekof]

I actually don't mind that it is on rails,.. Kincect cannot do much else,..
I am more interested if it actually ''kinda'' works,.. I don't even see that happening,..
All the shit we have seen was pree-recorded,..

[Moonboots]

on rails = automatic no buy for me.

[N4PS3Fanboys]

Kinect has so much potential, it's a shame that PS3 fanboys have to trash it at every chance they get and jump on the tiniest of issues, blowing them out of proportion. Fortunately, it seems that this has not affected the mainstream consumer, because Kinect is right next to Move on the top of the Amazon bestsellers charts, despite the fact that Move releases this week and Kinect is still two months away.

It's refreshing to see that the extremist views here on N4G do not reflect reality.