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Friday 11 February 2011

Other Ideas For Kinect Games

So you've seen the best of what's coming out for Kinect in 2011, but what other games might work well if given the motion treatment this year? Here are some ideas of my own as to where Microsoft can go next after Star Wars, Gears of War (probably) and Steel Batallion become compatible with the sensor in a few months:
SPORTS GAMES- Kinect Sports (9/10) showed that Kinect can do things like football, table tennis and boxing with no problems (unlike a certain motion-sensing console by Nintendo), so why not take that a step further? Let's have entire games based around those competitions, and some new takes on previously untouched sports wouldn't go amiss either!
SUPERHERO GAMES- Imagine a Spider-Man title where you are Spidey, throwing webs with a flick of your hands and fighting goons in style. This sort of thing is debatably still a way off for Kinect, but that doesn't make the concept any less thrilling.
MOVIE GAMES- Part of the difficulty in making a movie tie-in has always been the one restriction in the way of us living out the film experience: the controller. With that out of the equation, we should be able to get much closer to playing through the key scenes of the movie in the right way!
BIG FRANCHISES- Microsoft are remaining cagey on this matter right now, however it's a sure-fire thing that the Xbox 360 lives or dies on its big exclusives, so bringing a few of those franchises to Kinect would ensure the console stays ahead in the motion race. Get to it!

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