Konami takes familiar mechanics from DDR and ditches the dance pad, producing a clumsy entry in the
dance genre that offers nothing more than a mediocre experience.
What would your room look like if
you could see all the infrared the Kinect device is shooting out? One
intrepid YouTube user decided to find out with the aid of the night
vision goggles from his copy of Modern Warfare 2.
If you're some sort of dancing maniac and are stuck craving more than the
included 32 songs, we've got good news - there is day one DLC for Dance
Central.
Microsoft's latest piece of hardware had us running and jumping in front
of our TVs so we could tell you
which games to pick up and which ones to absolutely stay away from.
With Kinect’s Dance Central, Harmonix took a risk on a
new piece of technology and succeeded in creating the most authentic
and entertaining virtual dance experience to date.
Sonic Free Riders uses Microsoft’s Kinect
technology to place you in the Sonic universe as you zip around a
limited number of courses – or at least try to. Spotty body detection
turns what could have been a unique racing experience into a
wreck.
Kinect Adventures is exactly the kind of all-in, jump around experience
that Microsoft must have envisioned for its Kinect peripheral. As a pack-in title, it
does a brilliant job of demonstrating what the tech can do.
Microsoft was already planning a pretty huge launch for their new
Kinect device, originally projecting three million in sales by
Christmas. Apparently the growing pre-launch hype has not been lost on
them, though, as they've now raised those projections.
