Kinect Sports Games: Will They Work?
If you haven’t heard of the Kinect add on coming for the Xbox 360, then let me give you a brief run down. It is a camera that can track your movements, and that translates into the video games so that you can control your video games with just your body movements. This takes it a step further than the Nintendo Wii did since you will be able to control the game with your entire body, instead of just your hand and arm motions. it even has voice recognition, so that you’ll be able to speak out commands to the games.
When the Wii came out, it was bundled with Wii Sports, a bunch of different sports that you could play with the Wii remote. I am wondering how Kinect sports games will really go over. I think there will definitely be some good and some bad sports games that are implemented with Kinect functionality, but some Kinect games will be cool.
Football Games
It will be pretty awesome to control the quarterback, and to be able to toss passes out by throwing your arm in the direction of the receiver, and then to catch the pass. It will also be awesome to have the ability to call out plays and to dodge the defensive backs rushing at you. Though, if you have to run down the field, this could get old pretty quickly, so I don’t know.
Fighting Games
One of the promo videos shows a Kinect fighting game, that allows you to duck and dodge, as well as throw punches and kicks. This could be pretty awesome, since fighting games and button mashing go hand in hand. But, as one humorous Kinect parody video meant to mock the system portrays, it has a player just flailing their arms and legs around to throw punches and kicks.
I think Kinect will be pretty awesome and revolutionary, and a great new way to interact with video games.
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