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Star Wars Kinect- Is it a nerd’s dream?

BadCircuit|5839d ago |Article|57|

OXCGN:

"I am a nerd first and foremost.

I admit this openly and freely, ignoring the funny looks I get for my ‘How to Kill a Zombie’ shirt and laughter from my ‘cooler’ friends as I regale them with tales of my exploits on Omega and the Citadel.

But there is one thing that I hold closest to my nerdy heart, and that thing is Star Wars, whether it be the classic fantastic three or the newer…not so fantastic three (don’t get me wrong, I am a Liam Neeson fan, but I really didn’t need to know where the force came from).

I love it all, from force powers to Death Stars to the droideka.

So when I was directed to a little video recently from one of the E3 presentation by one of my fellow OXCGNites, I couldn’t help but think my prayers had been answered: Star Wars for the Kinect?"

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BadCircuit5839d ago

I love the Star Wars franchise and I hope that the game for the Kinect is well done so it is a big enjoyment for fans of the movies to play.

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Imperator5839d ago

This game would be a great reason to buy kinect, but it looks like it's an on-rails game. That right there is just fail (if true).

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HolyOrangeCows5839d ago

http://www.joystiq.com/2010...
http://gameinformer.com/b/n...

It's on rails. That sucks.

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Blacktric5839d ago

A Star Wars game that lets players use lightsabers and force with their hands but in fact is just a rail shooter. Count me out. First part with using lightsabers and force powers with hands is nice but a rail shooter? Hell no. Give me The Force Unleashed 2 with Move support.

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beardpapa5839d ago (Edited 5839d ago )

for some reason I can only think of star wars kid everytime i see star wars kinect.

Remember how that kid looked in those youtube vids? He was so serious!

I apologize if you [Mr. Star Wars man] lurk around n4g. =)

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XboxOZ3605839d ago

It was a SHOW . .not a presentation of software. It was a typical Hollywood show for an audience that KNEW that, apart from the over sceptical gamer press form the mainstream game media.

Of course it was Acted, it was rehearsed for months, as are all 'shows' . . Don't you guys get it???

It's why no game celebrities where introduced on the Red Carpet, and only ppl like Billy Crystal, and his family, movie and day-time film stars, John Travolta's wife and others were being interviewed by the TV shows.

The entire event was aimed at FAMILIES as a SHOW of what could be possible, using Cirque Du Soliel as its medium, which had been working on the SHOW for months and months.

I'm sure gamers have some brains . . . although, sometimes I wonder. Check the actual full show reels out that appeared on MTV, CNN, etc, they show the full show incl interviews etc, not the edited game sites snippets making it look like a staged event.

It was . . . it's called Hollywood showtime.

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Sheikh Yerbouti5839d ago

Remember the Asian girl acting like she was getting licked by Skittles? That was rehearsed.

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morganfell5839d ago

It depends on the dream you are having.

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Blacktric5839d ago

LMAO. I seriously feel bad for that guy. I mean maybe no one noticed that it was just an act while watching it live there but when they come home and see these gif's...

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DarkSpawnClone5839d ago

Why do they fake these things ? , they cant show off a real demo!?!? what is M$ thinking .. this game would be cool if it wasn't on rails.

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beans5839d ago

HOw do you know if it's on rails? You guys are always trying to spread more fud towards anything 360 lol.

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UP5839d ago

if it is not on rails how would you move the character around?

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UP5839d ago

disagree: instead of disagreeing with me why wont you answer my question to potentially enlighten me.

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gaminoz5839d ago

The demo video doesn't really show much, but this could be a bit of fun for casuals and Star Wars fans- funny article: I can imagine all the invisible lightsaber-waving and people making the "zeeeeuuuuu, zeeeuuu" sound with the game.

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XboxOZ3605839d ago

If Kinect even does half of what it is supposed to do with this game, it should be a huge hit with both starlets and star war fans alike.

Looking forward to slashing sabers across the darkened room with this fun game. Who cares what it looks like or how accurate it is, so long as it's FUN

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Imperator5839d ago

Hey, do you know if this is really an on-rails game?

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Dramscus5839d ago

There's no way it could be anything but since there isn't an analogue stick to move around with.

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iceman065838d ago

When there was forward movement in other Kinect games, it required the player to actually move the lower parts of the body (like the track & field styled game). This just seemed to be some slashing and arm waving motions. Either way, the game will probably sell like crazy because of the Star Wars effect.

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Dramscus5839d ago

I love Star Wars to death but honestly this game looks like crap.

Ok the force power parts are cool but everything else about the game stinks like something crawled up the back of the xbox and died.
The problem is the saber play looks horrendous. Even a pre recorded video of it the character on the screen looked like they were just flailing around.
Not to mention it's on rails.
I don't know I watched the video for it when e3 was happening and just was not impressed.
Like I said the force power stuff is cool. The rest though, total garbage.
Sorry
Saber play would work better with the move, plus no games on move have to be on rails, and the eye cam can also allow you to throw force powers in a similar game.

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XboxOZ3605839d ago

Man, some gamers don't get what a pre-release presentation is all about. Much like the Kinect "Show" that was held in LA on the Sunday Night prior to E3, which was a SHOW, not a presentation btw.

This was not exact gameplay but simply a representation of how Kinect will be used with the game, which btw, is well off from landing on a console near you for at least 12 months.

Which is a LONG way to go yet before the game even ships or is even ready for demo or testing work.

Must all gamers expect perfection at conception stage of a game. If they do, then my advise to them would be - please, do not get a job in viewing Game Pitches to publishers - please, no game would ever get published.

If you saw some of the pitches developers present as "concepts" to publishers, you'd wonder if the game would be any good, but many get through and become outstanding titles.

This is yet another reason many Publishers and the developers they finance do NOT allow general public or the average 'joe-gamer' into closed door events. At least they (pub/dev) know the 'real' gaming media knows the difference between concept, alpha and beta game code, and the long process that a game goes through, and what to expect when something is being presented early.

The article is not about how good the game is - right now, but it is about what Nerds would do when a game like this fronts. They are not particularly worried about exact gameplay just yet at this stage, just the thrill of it happening at some stage in the 'future'.

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Dramscus5839d ago

Way to go ignoring most of what I said. Their not going to take the game off rails, and the saber play will never be anything but flailing.
This is known because it's on the kinect, and since it's on the kinect the person playing will have to stand in front of their tv. Thus the on rails.
The saber play is done swinging your empty hands around. I know what pre alpha is, I know that some games look pretty crappy there. What I'm saying is that the whole basis for the game is totally wrong.
Putting it on the kinect is bat shit crazy.

Though eleven year olds that have only seen the clone wars show will think its totally tits.
I suppose that is the kinects main audience though.

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T9X695839d ago

Kinect with the force you must

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CobraKai5839d ago

Ive seen the trailer at e3 but they didn't show anyone playing the game. Is there a trailer showing the person doing all those fancy moves?

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tiamat55839d ago

Move controller looks like a lightsaber, Lucasarts can make specialized Move controllers that look like exactly like sabers and force feedback when you clash sabers. Wrong motion device Lucasarts.Jump ship before it's too late.

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Sheikh Yerbouti5839d ago

I'd rather implement Move in Force Unleashed two like Rising's kan-datsu.

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SIR-DARK-HAZE5839d ago

buy a star wars game if i owned kinect due to the fact that i can play that in the streets and get force feedback, unfortunately it hurts. You bullys

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Microshock5839d ago

This would work a lot better with the Move since you can pretend like you're holding a lightsaber base. Plus the light on top helps that too.

Waving your hands around pretending to hold one doesn't nearly create the same experience.

Plus lack of buttons means that what you can do with the lightsaber is going to be..fail.

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pork_chop_express5839d ago

Be careful bringing common sense and discernment into a kinext article, you might frighten ppl with truth lol

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SIR-DARK-HAZE5839d ago

It would be cool if you could connect two move controllers together for Darth mauls *name correct?* light sabar.

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Dramscus5839d ago

Well there is that pulg in the bottom of the move controller. Or I'm sure a peripheral of some kind could be released. Like a paper towel roll with holes for the buttons.

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Obama5839d ago

MOVE would be way better suited for a star war game since you are actually holding something that resembles a lightsaber. With Kinet you are holding air, and it's not fun swinging your arms acting like a jedi.

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iamgoatman5839d ago

"and it's not fun swinging your arms acting like a jedi."

I don't see how Move would be any different. If you want to act like a Jedi, you're going to be swinging your arms about at some point.

But with Kinect, if you have to pretend to hold a light saber, just make sure you don't start waving your arm up and down near a window, people may get the wrong impression.

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SIR-DARK-HAZE5839d ago

Because people can see you're holding a controller. With da move

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XboxOZ3605839d ago

You can "scan" any object you wish to use actually. Which will be available when the units ship later this year. Allowing you to scan skateboards, sabers, whatever you wish really, if that is what you want to do - or not.

There's limits on both Kinect and Move at this stage of their development, but over time, you'll find both will mature, be fine tuned and give a great experience for anyone wanting a "fun" experience.

Remembering these mediums are aimed at "family fun" not "hardcore gaming per-se. The market is 10 - 20 times greater in the social family market than the 'hardcore' gaming market. Which is where the real money is for the main publishing house now.

Gaming, as we once knew it will become a secondary thing to the mainstream 'family gaming experience' - which is certainly going to peeve many so-called hardcore gamers right off.

Remember, we are a smaller market than the huge monster sized family entertainment market. Which things like this are aimed at, more than you and I.

Which is fine, so long as we all (families and gamers) have FUN - after all, that is waht it is all about - isn't it??

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callahan095839d ago

How do you know that you can scan an object in Star Wars? I would think that would be a game-by-game basis kind of thing. I mean, if I just pick up a stick and hold that, would Kinect be able to tell where my joints are and where my hands are without the game being programmed to accept an object like the stick being augmented into my skeleton (as far as the software is concerned) so that it knows what to track and how? I'm not sure if I'm making sense here, but there's got to be some kind of programming that's necessary for object scanning or the skeletal tracking would get confused. I just don't know. But that's my point. You seem to be making a big assumption by saying you can just scan any object you want in at any time. Microsoft never said that, so I'm not sure why you're telling us that it'll be possible, unless you have some inside info that hasn't been made public yet.

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kneon5839d ago

@XboxOZ360

Did Microsoft show this scanning ability? I believe Sony has a patent on that from the eyetoy era so they may be able to do it technically but not legally.

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kneon5839d ago (Edited 5839d ago )

Disagrees? Really? Maybe you will believe the US patent office

http://patft.uspto.gov/neta...

One of the diagrams shows an early version of the Move

This was filed 10 YEARS AGO!!! Long before the Wii and Kinect.

And this one is more recent

http://www.siliconera.com/2...

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kneon5839d ago

I agree, except I see no reason why you couldn't be holding something while using Kinect as well. the only difference being that in Kinect is serves no real purpose, except perhaps to confuse the software if it hasn't been designed to take into account that you're waving a cheap plastic tube around.

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OGharryjoysticks5839d ago (Edited 5839d ago )

True. And how powerful and dramatic it is as those 2 fighters swing those lightsabers with all the rage and fury they can muster for that one moment when the sabers clash...and there's absolutely no rumble. There's no whooshing rumble as you swing. There's no rumble when your hit and lose your hand. Because there's no rumble.

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OGharryjoysticks5839d ago

I agree with your point. Obviously somebody has no brain and thinks otherwise, or maybe that person has no hands or fingers. Playing air guitar is not as fun as playing Guitar Hero with the guitar controller. And swinging a sword without a handle is just as lifeless.

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iamgoatman5839d ago

What's stopping you holding something while playing it with Kinect? I bet you could even hold a toy light sabre if you wanted.

Also I disagreed for that very point, but according to you I have no brain, or hands. I couldn't have possibly disagreed because I had ample reason to, that would have been crazy.

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I Play Games5839d ago (Edited 5839d ago )

Yea the droids still exist as in one of the other games set after the original trilogy----- Jedi acadamy??????

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XactGamer5839d ago

Whaow! WeeeW! Chee ZZT! Whaow! WeeeW! Chee ZZT! That is the sound of me slicing the limbs off of trolls.

Star Wars fans will eat this up even if the game is bad. Fans have been wanting to swing a Light Saber ever since the Wii launched.

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BubblesDAVERAGE5839d ago

Starwars on the move...thats where it will be at..no some on the rails crap...when u cant feel the light sabers clash and slicing threw a droid.....

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the-show-stopper5839d ago

I'm a hardcore star wars fan and this game doesnt look good
come on stromtroopers and driods fighting together, then darth vader comes in?
not to mention your a young obi wan on naboo
theres alot wrong with that picture

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Keltik825839d ago

I'm going to have to say no to this Kinect Star Wars. To really enjoy it you're going to want something tangible to hold you're going to want to feel the rumble, the added light effect on the bulb also makes it really cool! The feeling just wont be there if you're not holding anything. No force feedback is kind of lame.

The Move support would be much more enjoyable since you can hold it, you can feel the lightsaber, you can see the color change the vibration when you block/hit/swing something, it just makes sense. Besides, you have something called buttons and analog sticks to help you move side to side and forward and backward which is kind of important I want to CONTROL the character on screen.

Again, this is my opinion on the matter and it just seems the Move is better suited for these types of games.

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0oAngeluso05839d ago

It is a dream come true! I'm sure you'll see lots of people using those force FX lightsabres with this game..lol
I loved the look of it and think it will be well done, Kinect is the better fit IMHO simply because the force powers are going to be there and feel more like your an actual Jedi or what have you. I mean if you can use a Force Effects Lightsabre and hand movements as the force, then that is win win really.
So I'm looking forward to this title!

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XactGamer5839d ago

Force powers by simply pushing or pulling your hand is really cool.

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Miacosa5839d ago

This game looks very mediocre at best and adding the fact that its totally on rails does not help all that much.

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BBAM5839d ago

http://www.youtube.com/watc...
I still say lucasarts would've been better going with the playstation move
but that's just me.. and wanting a star wars game where you can move...

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Random4045839d ago (Edited 5839d ago )

I think it would be best with kinect. Jumping gives you a force flip stepping forward allows you to lunge with your lightsaber with force speed. Stepping or leaning left or right allows you to dodge blaster fire with force speed. Holding your arms up slows down blaster bolts so you can easily block them ala the shadows of the empire book making blocking a minigame by itself. The movement can be controlled by you it doesn't have to be on rails, but it can be assisted movement kinda like fps have a degree of autoaiming. Engaging a sith or jedi where you can choose to dodge saber thrusts or block them would also be possible. Possibly the perspective would change to a more DOA style of game then. Kicks could also be used to break lightsaber locks or to kick luke down the carbon freezing chamber. Probably can do this with move as well, but to me it seems more limited. Possibly during jedi fights light saber swings are slowed down or user adjustable so you can block easier. Then you have video playback at full speed so it looks like a movie style lightsaber fight. The potential is there and it could be awesome just need lucasarts to unlock it.

Even throwing the lightsaber and retrieving it could be made into a fun game play element. The lightsaber could be knocked out of your hand and you would have to force jump out of the way and hold out your hand to retrieve it.

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Belgavion5839d ago

Would be cool if this allowed some double-swinging Darth Maul saber goodness, but I guess that's asking a bit much

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Gamer_895839d ago

its fits perfect

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Richdad5838d ago

On how it is implemented in Kinnect.

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