XBOX KINECT - DEMON SEED MEETS HAL9000? So with a lucky post Christmas win on the footy I found myself with a nice little stash of money to spend on myself, I bit the bullet and bought a Kinect gubbins for my 360. Now I have never played on a Wii and have no interest in PS3's rampant rabbit ...Posted by koopa42 on Jan 10, 2011 17:52 (Jan 10, 2011 17:52) |
So with a lucky post Christmas win on the footy I found myself with a nice little stash of money to spend on myself, I bit the bullet and bought a Kinect gubbins for my 360. Now I have never played on a Wii and have no interest in PS3's rampant rabbit looking 'move' however Kinect hooked me in (a bit anyway) with the possibilty of titles such as Steel Battalion - a tank/mech game controlled with your arms? How ace (in theory) that would/could (but ultimately won't) be.  Along with Kinect Adventures (a hardware demo thinly veiled as a game) I picked up Kinectimals for the Mrs and a sports title for me, the sports title will be going back unplayed because I was supposed to get Kinect Sports but picked up the wrong one. I have put in a few hours on the dem....I mean Kinect Adventures and can't say I'm as blown away as I'd hoped, I'm probably feeling exactly as I expected - this is blaverage kiddie stuff aimed at smashing into the Wii market by offering EXACTLY the same without an controller. Harsh? Probably, because it's still early doors but the ever more powerful gaming cynic inside me says 'meh meh meh' and dreads the arrival of Microsofts take on 'Cooking Mama' or some other 'Artic fox animal sanctury for polar bears attack by bats' crap. The one glimmer of hope is if they do actually release a game that at least attempts (however ineptly) to let me control someing big with swords or guns or both whilst making me look like I have Parkinson's - to quote a mighty 80's movie I'd buy that for a dollar. Oh, Kinectimals is exactly like the usual cutsie poo crap you get on the DS - you know the sort, adopt a 3 legged Sloth who lost a leg in a deforestation accident and needs a mummy to nurse him back to health and teach him Sudoku. Anyway back to the real reason for this blog entry - the attempt to get a Demon Seed/HAL9000 like technical abomination of rape and destruction in homes all over the world!!!! Harsh? Again probably LOL but when playing Kinect Demo......sorry......Kinect Adventures for the first time? I was only wearing a bathrobe and socks because I was just checking it out, how suprised was I to see it had taken pictures of me looking like a tramp with parkinson's!!!! Ever since this even when playing a non-kinect game such as Fallout NV I sweat that Kinect sensor is looking at me with it's cold, unblinking, sensor of doom, it's planning I tell you, it's planning my destruction! Overall Kinect is exactly what it says on the box (and in all honesty what we ALL knew) it's a Wii with better tech? I can only hope that just 1 title is released that proves worthy of me running around my front roomm fingers clasped in a gun shape, screaming peoww peoww! |
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