Get some face time with Kinect Star Wars straight from the floor of E3 2011 with commentary from Director of Design Chris Esaki.
Kinect Star Wars, a groundbreaking game released in April 2012 for the Xbox 360, utilized the Kinect motion-sensing peripheral to plunge players into the heart of the Star Wars universe.
One of the worst things to happen to Star Wars was it being exclusive to Kinect when PS Move could have been a better version because of "buttons" per Kevin with better tracking. And the controller looking like a light saber hilt. Or, had an actual light saber game similar to the dojo in Vader Immortal.
But the miming lies on the Microsoft E3 stage was icing on the cake of this garage. Wasn't even live gameplay. Just bad acting. Nothing ground breaking about this travesty.
WTMG's Leo Faria: "This piece wasn’t meant to say that Star Wars‘ gaming future is ruined forever, nor that there isn’t a chance for a good AAA Star Wars game to come out in the near future. I need to reiterate that, yes, I’m looking forward to Jedi Fallen Order. Then again, as a massive Star Wars fan, like most of you I miss the days when we would get loads of titles a year, each one focused on one specific feature of the franchise. I’d rather have a slew of smaller Star Wars games being released every year, some good and some not as good, than one big generic title being released every two years. These are always at the risk of being criticized due to typical AAA practices like expensive season passes, cut content, or microtransactions. Had Disney allowed for anyone, especially mid-range developers and publishers, to bring their creative and risk-free ideas to life, I’m sure fans would have rejoiced. And Disney’s pockets would most certainly fill up faster than nowadays."
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WTMG's Leo Faria: "Kinect Star Wars gave me the opportunity to witness Darth Vader and the Emperor dancing to Deadmau5's "Ghosts n' Stuff" like a couple of teenage ravers on ecstasy. That's the best thing I never thought I'd ever see in my life."
lol I remember this. Almost as much of an embarrassment as the Star Wars Holiday Special
Seems a lot like Tony Hawk what with all them RAILS.
Controls look sluggish, gameplay looks cumbersome and boring. I'd probably get bored after 10 minutes or so. Having something to hold on to > aimlessly flailing your arms through the air. Sorry Microsoft, you blew it.
It didn't look very responsive, granted this isn't the final product, but it's not looking good.
I just dont see the appeal when you can wave your arms around like crazy and the Saber swipes once, slowly.
Its not copying your movements. Its just using movement as a trigger to play the canned animations.
I just dont see any skill or fun in it, unless you really, really want to be a Jedi and this is as close as you can get.
I'd love to see a first person Samurai game with 1:1 tracking and body specific damage and injury's.
Why isnt anyone trying to do something ambitious with this tech instead of all this fluff?
As much as i love starwars this looks terrible. They should have just done an exclusive Jedi Knight game but without Kinect or at most with Kinect as an option.