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New videos surface for new Xbox 360 Star Wars game
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Trailer here!
Star Wars fans, prepare to connect with The Force in a kinectic way. On Monday, Microsoft Studios and LucasArts will formally announce the first Star Wars video game for Kinect, Microsoft’s hands-free, your-body-is-the-controller playing experience for the Xbox 360. Simply called Kinect Star Wars, the game is intended for all ages and will hit stores this winter. Microsoft will preview the game this at E3 (aka the Electronic Entertainment Expo), the video game industry’s annual confab at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Check out the trailer for a peek at the game and the gameplay.
Some off screen footage here, starting at 36 seconds in:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuchHcnzHq4
For comparison, last year's footage:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riV7jP26HkE
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And a Kinect game where you just walk around Disneyland, hugging Mickey Mouse and spontaneously flying...?
I can't think of a good way for a kinect game to emulate 3rd person controls.
Then I actually read the post....
God damn these kinect games at E3. I mean really if you know the game is not going to ever be like that don't make a video showing it off. The crysis guys don't go taking pictures of a jungle to show how awesome crysis whatever will be.
I never asked for this!
(Please do not gift. My game bank is already full.)
THE REAL GAME is a poor imitation of that with a super tight camera angle and about 4 seconds delay between "motion" and reaction.
I never asked for this!
http://www.gametrailers.com/video/e3-2011-kinect-star/714758
People are never going to believe a good 1:1 lightsaber game is impossible until they're disappointed directly.
And from the article in the OP:
The future of gaming.
OH BOY COULD IT BE JEDI KNIGHT FOUR I'VE WAITED SO LO-
*Read article*
God damn it LucasArts, what the hell happened to you?
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This is set in the prequel trilogy. It is only being authentic and immersive for the game to make the audience want to kill Lucas.
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Last years video was pre-rendered, as you can tell by the guy that's desperately trying to mimick what's going on on-screen (though all the Kinect demos last year were). This ones in real-time and uh, isn't so much 1-to-1 as 1-to-1000.
I must have blinked and missed that part. Was it before or after we spent like 2/3 of the game fighting grid bugs while platforming through the HVAC system of an inexplicably cavernous medical frigate?
Unmitigated fucking disaster of a sequel, that game.
this can't be the final fucking boss
no way
-Credits roll-
As much as people like to go "WHY WHY WHY IS THERE A CLONE WARS GAME?"--myself included--apparently, that damn cartoon is still going, and still popular. Clearly, someone likes that setting. Me, I doubt I'd give a shit about Jedi Knight VIII or whatever goddamn number they're up to, so the words "Jedi game" don't really stir my interest anyway.
Personally, I need to hear "sequel to TIE Fighter or Republic Commando" or "dedicated naval tactics simulation"...something substantial. Which probably doesn't involve magical monks who do kung fu with laser words.
It's because I own a Kinect that I know this statement is completely false.
I think it took me about 3 and a half hours
On hard, that's not a bad estimation--though a good 30% of that is playing the same fucking awful boss battle over and over again with that weird giant monster.
I expect it'd be shorter on easy.
Anyone remember those ads for Dark Forces II which just showed a lightsaber-looking peripheral and said, "The first game where this is your joystick," or some nonsense like that? I guess it took the decade that followed to tell us how much that would suck if that were true.
Don't be silly. So it would be Star Wars: Dark Forces V: Jedi Knigh IV: Jedi Outcast III: Jedi Academy II: Kool Lighsaberz
i am more like you in the star wars univerise, i am more of a bigger fan of charaters like han solo, lando, Grand Moff Tarkin and wedge over any of the jedi's, i never played any of TFU games since they really feel like jedi jerking, which is what star wars really been since 1999. luke may be a jedi master, but i am fucking his sister
It took me about three hours, too. The whole game essentially only had three levels, all bland and repetitive, one of which they repeated. Room after room, corridor after corridor, looked exactly the same, as if they copy and pasted them together to try and make each level longer. The game would probably only be an hour to an hour and a half if weren't for that repetition in level design. The story and characters were also poorly written - things billed as important happened that either made no sense or were completely pointless and characters were irritating fools - that I wanted to scream at my television.
Fuck that game.
Stupid bullshit that happens in the end:
You do some very repetitive platforming before meeting Vader on a circular platform. You damage him a little, then do a QTE, and he jumps backward to a higher, circular platform. You follow. You damage him some more, then do the same QTE, and he jumps backward to another higher, circular platform. This repeats itself for probably a dozen times with no changes to the formula. Finally, Vader leaves and you follow him to a room where he's holding Juno hostage.
This is the best part: Vader force pushes her out the window and she falls a hundred or more feet down to the ground, crashing hard and the camera focuses on her open, dead eyes. Enraged, Starkiller attacks Vader and subdues him. After the fight, Starkiller grieves over Juno's body and his robot tells him there's nothing they can do - she's dead. But then she pops up just fine as if nothing happened, no injuries nor scratches.
It's been done before. It's been done much better. Multiple times. Changing them to idiot robots doesn't really improve upon that.
As long as we're talking dream Star Wars games, I'd be all for another Rogue Squadron game. Maybe someone, somewhere, is pooling the talent of Factor 5 into a new studio and RS4 is on the way.
If I'm not locking my S-Foils into attack position or flying over Hoth then I'm just not complete.
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No lightsabers, ergo not gonna happen.
Then again, I'm pretty sure most / all Kinect games look laggy in videos, but not all play that way, so we'll see. Impressed with the variety of gameplay modes so far. Will be cool if you can use a toy lightsaber (like the weights in Your Shape).
Glad to see the Kinect hate train is still in full swing though, choo-choo!
THAT'S WHAT WE'RE AFRAID OF.
While I think the fighting looks fun as Hell and surprisingly fluid. I've watched a pile of replays from Kinect games now, and in most of them you look like a total fucking tool compared to what is going on on-screen. There does not need to be anything like a 1:1 response to have a blast.
How on Earth have you come to that conclusion? You can't see anything more than the top of his legs and it clearly looks to me like they are moving when he turns.
Only thing I'm seriously concerned about right now are the way lazers seemingly bounce off the protagonist no matter what he is currently doing - can you actually die?!
Also I'd argue the flying sections might be daft, personally I'd rather see a Steel Battalion-style overcomplicated controller for such hijinks. Then again, that's going to Kinect too, somehow
And to top all that stupid bullshit off...
Assuming you pick that ending. The other one is like a throwaway Red Dwarf joke and somehow manages to make both endings make even less sense.
Was there a writer's strike at Lucasarts when this trash was in development?
Plus you have DLC that makes you