Overview
Tail Drift in its simplest description to give you an idea of the game is “Mario Kart” of the skies (dare we say it). Imagine flying a roller coaster with wings through some rather delightful scenery while bashing your competition out the way! Full of fun albeit a bit short!
Games called Tail Drift has been released on the App Store as a premium title. Unfortunately the game has switched to a free to play model due to slow sales.
With the game now being a free to play title, the Tail Drift mechanics have been slightly altered. Players will now require fuel to race, which can be bought or restored by waiting, the interface has been tweaked, the tour system has been changed to offer a more linear experience and some of the tracks have also been rebalanced.
TouchArcade: Right Pedal and Attract Mode's airplane tube racer, Tail Drift, has just been turned into a free-to-play game. The planes now require fuel in order to race, which recharges over time, and can be refilled by spending coins or through watching incentivized video ads. The UI has been streamlined to make it easier to navigate and quicker to access the plane menus. The tour system has been changed to replace the branching paths available initially with a simpler linear system, with some tracks' difficulties rebalanced.
VRFocus - While a range of companies are currently developing their own solutions for input with the Oculus Rift virtual reality (VR) head-mounted display (HMD), a reasonably competent device already exists in the Kinect body tracking motion sensor from Microsoft. Now a new videogame that combines the two devices has launched a new demo. That videogame is Tail Drift, from Attract Mode Games and Cratesmith.
Kinect has proven to have so many uses, including beyond the gaming community, i.e. medical field.
I've been saying these two devices make a perfect pair, glad to see them paired finally.
Not knocking this game at all. It looks real fun.
However, Edonus… if you could provide a list of complex AAA Kinect games that show how incredible it is an an input device for gaming, how it trumps solid controller based gaming and how it changes the way we game forever, then perhaps it would have been taken seriously. Cause that's basically how Microsoft and guys like you attempted to sell it, and that's why it gets the grief.
I mean I don't know how you can expect people to take you, in particular, seriously as a patron of defending the Kinect, when you were trying to convince people that Kinect Star Wars was not a broken, horrible mess of a game and that it was everyone else's fault but Kinect's or the developers.
If Microsoft could bring out some games that justify the hype then maybe it wouldn't get all the "rape" (pathetic that you are using that word to exaggerate your already rampant victim complex this gen). When a game like D4 comes out and it's actually good, then maybe it will be validated as a gaming peripheral that people want to use over what better games use.
