Kinect@E3 2011: What we liked, didn’t like and even hated

Hopefully the upcoming TGS will have a few more Kinect related news especially on Steel Battalion and Project Draco…

Yes, that’s what we’re hoping as well..

like :

- ghost recon
-  futur ea
- blackwater
- forza
- rise of nightmare
- fable

hate :

- “voice support” as a central major update …
1) hundred of voice control software exist on any hardware (phone for exemple)  and noone use them once except for trying it just after buying

2) lot of games will now have 2 voice shortcut and label “better with kinect” …sad joke    who bought kinect for this ?

3) anyway i dont want to talk to object.
bad news imho.

- Starwars … omg this was supposed to be first serious “gamer” game ? Graphics are ugly, and gameplay seems terrible. Really. What had the developpers in mind ? This game enter the “disneyland categorie”, and can even be in the worst of them… Huge disappointement

- no news about improved recognitions, sdk or so …

->   I want The Witcher 2 kinect ! Stop with all the kungfu panda & disney dance now …still looking for something “serious”…  and no news at all

Wow, nice LIKE list.. Future EA support is definitely something to be looking fwd to!

Hate:
- voice support; true, but with gaming it is different. When you’re with mass effect 3 and don’t need to open the powers-reel to execute a nice attack, that would help me. Also, the RPG-speaking the lines is something I’ve been touting ever since Kinect released. Sure, it has been everywhere… but not as much in games.

- better with Kinect – yes that’s too bad, but this comes in waves. 

- Star Wars: target market does indeed not seem to include the hardcore gamer, but will probably get massive sales either way. Could be a let down, but I’d have to play it first.

- Witcher 2 Kinect – one cannot disagree with you there. That would be epic!

like : Amazing voice control in Mass effect 3 (it’s work very good).
Finger tracking in Ghost Recon Future soldier (but, gunsmith mode it’s not good)
The scanbody and object scan, it’s incredible!
Fable the Journey and Ryse, they are ambitious games for Kinect

Hate:

TGS Game are missing
Many casual game
Where is Rare?
No Kinect support in Halo CE (why headtracking it’s not integrate?)

Globaly, this E3 it’s good for Kinect, many games were announced, like “Leedmees”, “Fruit Ninja” or “Minecraft”.

It’s hard to say what I liked and disliked when dealing with unfinished games. I mean I was disappointed that Kinect Star Wars currently isn’t 1:1 and is laggy but I think it’s a safe bet that the lag will be fixed when it’s released in about 6 months and 1:1 (arm/hand movements at least) can’t be ruled out either yet I don’t think, especially because of a few odd things I saw. I don’t know why some people are saying it’s got bad graphics because although it might not be Crysis 2 it still looks nice and the space battles looks virtually as good as the movies! And please take note that the demos were set on easy and in “God mode” so people playing it couldn’t get hurt, let alone die and also that they only demoed 1 level and a training session. (Playable demos, there were other levels in the 2 trailers that looked cool! It’s a shame none of those were playable demos.) Also many previews did say that it played better than they thought it would.

Off the top of my head I liked Rise Of Nightmares, The Gunstringer, PowerUp Heroes, Forza 4, Kinect Sports: Season 2, Blackwater, the confirmation that Ryse is a Kinect game and the 10 or so seconds of gameplay in the trailer, the inclusion of Kinect in Tintin, Mass Effect 3 and Ghost Recon: Future Soldier as well as EA and Ubisoft’s (including all the Tom Clancy games) commitment to Kinect and Kinect Disneyland Adventures looks very promising! I also like the fact that Microsoft are releasing at least some of the Kinect hacks in Kinect Fun Labs and want people to create more Gadgets for it, plus of course that Kinect Fun Labs was instantly released. Also there was the challenge of finding E3 news for 123Kinect that they hadn’t already reported!

Things I didn’t like were Hulk Hogan’s Main Event which isn’t looking promising, Sesame Street: Once Upon A Monster was a bit disappointing because although it looks well made and I’m sure it will be fun for children I didn’t see any gameplay that people above the age of about 10 would enjoy that much other than parents playing with their children. I also didn’t like the apparent non-existence of a Kinect Gears Of War game, the lack of a playable Ryse or any videos of it other than the E3 trailer (unless anyone knows different?) and the possibility that it’s been delayed until next year and of course the non-appearance of all last year’s TGS games except Rise Of Nightmares. Oh yeah, also the constant Kinect bashing on other websites, lol!

That was just the Kinect stuff, of course there were plenty of other things at E3 I liked, for example the AMAZING looking new Tomb Raider and of course HALO 4!!!! (Kinect enabled hopefully! )

There already is a Kinect SDK you know….

Yup we know , but we like for it to be public, that’s all

It will be public by the end of next month. The beta version anyway

End of july doesn’t sound like spring to me…

yup.. so that would be great . Let’s hope it’ll release end of July