Details and video of the new Rancor, Dance and Podrace modes as well as footage of the limited edition Star Wars Xbox 360. Also R2D2 gives his "thoughts" on Star Wars Kinect, and Disneyland Adventures.
"I had heard about the Pod Racing game before but had not realized there was also a Dance Central style rhythm action game and Rancor Rampage open world destruction mode. The former takes classic dance songs and gives them a Star Wars twist (both in terms of choreography and lyrics), which was a really nice touch."
Kinect Star Wars, a groundbreaking game released in April 2012 for the Xbox 360, utilized the Kinect motion-sensing peripheral to plunge players into the heart of the Star Wars universe.
One of the worst things to happen to Star Wars was it being exclusive to Kinect when PS Move could have been a better version because of "buttons" per Kevin with better tracking. And the controller looking like a light saber hilt. Or, had an actual light saber game similar to the dojo in Vader Immortal.
But the miming lies on the Microsoft E3 stage was icing on the cake of this garage. Wasn't even live gameplay. Just bad acting. Nothing ground breaking about this travesty.
WTMG's Leo Faria: "This piece wasn’t meant to say that Star Wars‘ gaming future is ruined forever, nor that there isn’t a chance for a good AAA Star Wars game to come out in the near future. I need to reiterate that, yes, I’m looking forward to Jedi Fallen Order. Then again, as a massive Star Wars fan, like most of you I miss the days when we would get loads of titles a year, each one focused on one specific feature of the franchise. I’d rather have a slew of smaller Star Wars games being released every year, some good and some not as good, than one big generic title being released every two years. These are always at the risk of being criticized due to typical AAA practices like expensive season passes, cut content, or microtransactions. Had Disney allowed for anyone, especially mid-range developers and publishers, to bring their creative and risk-free ideas to life, I’m sure fans would have rejoiced. And Disney’s pockets would most certainly fill up faster than nowadays."
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WTMG's Leo Faria: "Kinect Star Wars gave me the opportunity to witness Darth Vader and the Emperor dancing to Deadmau5's "Ghosts n' Stuff" like a couple of teenage ravers on ecstasy. That's the best thing I never thought I'd ever see in my life."
lol I remember this. Almost as much of an embarrassment as the Star Wars Holiday Special
Interesting piece. I'm still not convinced on Kinect's ability to deliver an adventure style game without a better approach to navigation and movement and to me it looks like the lightsaber fighting would really benefit from a prop - I wonder how much the game would be confused by introducing a toy lightsaber for reference?
The other game modes look interesting though. A good way to adapt the source material to the controller.
There are so many good games they could make and they make this?? How about a new rouge squadron, a real podracer, BATLLEFRONT 3 etc. If you were going to make a motion game you choose this before the one that can act as a lightsaber 1 to 1 ! If they dont make another good game next im done waiting.
Check out R2 dissing Disneyland Adventures at 5m40s in that video. Like a true N4G'r. I'm sure C3PO will flame back: http://www.youtube.com/watc...