Not if you care about video games or Star Wars.
Don’t just take note of the lag present when Kinect evangelist Kudo Tsunoda swings his lightsaber. Take a look at when he “jumps”, and his on-screen jedi doesn’t begin to somersault until Kudo has already landed.
Oh dear.
On a brighter note, the second title demonstrated in this pre-E3 event looks a lot better (at least for kids), as it lets them visit a virtual Disneyland, fly around the park and…cuddle Mickey Mouse.
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dzc12
Monday, June 6, 2011 at 12:58 PMBoo-urns ‘Star Wars Kinect’… Boo-urns…
Dissection
Monday, June 6, 2011 at 12:58 PMThey gotta start somewhere. Red Steel 1 on the Wii wasn’t exactly perfect either…
James Mac
Monday, June 6, 2011 at 1:04 PMActually… yeah.
That’s a pretty reasonable point of view.
Braaains
Monday, June 6, 2011 at 1:06 PMRed Steel on the Wii was a launch title, this is coming a year after launch. There’s no excuse to be serving up this kind of garbage.
Can only hope this improves (or otherwise gets cancelled) before release, because what’s on display here is… shabby.
Dissection
Monday, June 6, 2011 at 1:27 PMTwo things;
The Kinect has only just hit the 7 month mark since release.
Red Steel was essentially the Wii’s first “real” game and I’d say this pretty much fits the bill as the first “real” Kinect game. Sure the delay of 7 months makes the results seen rather disappointing but like I said, gotta start somewhere.
I don’t own a Kinect and def won’t for a while
Dissection
Monday, June 6, 2011 at 1:30 PMI accidentally hit submit without finishing -_-
I don’t own a Kinect and def won’t for a while but each new title will be showing more and more of what the kinect is capable of. They def jumped the gun on the release of the Kinect but I see it working out well. With the advances people have made just by hacking the device I’d say it’s quite quite a lifespan ahead of it.
Braaains
Monday, June 6, 2011 at 2:10 PMBy the time this comes out it’ll be a year since release, or near enough to it. Hopefully that’s enough time to get it sorted out. But they showed this at last year’s E3 – it looked bad then and it looks bad now. If they’ve been working on it for a year and still have this kind of lag it has to raise some serious questions.
What puzzles me is WHY they’d show it off in this state rather than waiting until they had it functioning better. Best to keep it under wraps and make a good impression with it when you’ve got it sorted out rather than put this out there for everybody to laugh at.
solypsis
Monday, June 6, 2011 at 4:50 PMYep.
Put it out of its missery now.
Jake
Monday, June 6, 2011 at 1:00 PMfacepalm -.-
Sean
Monday, June 6, 2011 at 1:01 PMThis could very well be the worst Star Wars game ever created. I hope they don’t bother actually releasing this thing.
James Mac
Monday, June 6, 2011 at 1:04 PM*cough*MastersofTerasKasi*cough*
James Mac
Monday, June 6, 2011 at 1:02 PMNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Also, ewww… it’s clonewars.
Delas
Monday, June 6, 2011 at 1:06 PMon the plus side disneyland adventures looks like a day 1 purchase!
Crowknee
Monday, June 6, 2011 at 1:28 PMGeee – nothing gets nerds angry like an imperfect Star Wars game.
To be honest, the lag is present in ALL kinect games.
I suppose laggy is not the Jedi way..???
It looks fine – as a Wii game on XBox… it looks fine.
ShiggyNinty
Monday, June 6, 2011 at 1:49 PMI can imagine a whole room of journos and press as they present this game and their faces melt off like in Indiana Jones.
Space Monkey
Monday, June 6, 2011 at 1:50 PM*facepalm*
That’s the just the kind of thing that feels like a stab in the heart when you’re still dreaming that one day they could bring back something like the X-Wing or Jedi Knight franchise… and instead you get that…
James Mac
Monday, June 6, 2011 at 1:56 PMI miss my childhood… Lucasarts was the business.
Rebel Assault.
Dark Forces.
TIE Fighter.
X Wing.
Shadows of the Empire.
Why you gotta hurt me George… why?
lamboman007
Monday, June 6, 2011 at 2:01 PMhttp://www.gizmodo.com.au/2011/06/george-lucas-strikes-back-explains-so-much/
:P
Matt
Monday, June 6, 2011 at 2:01 PMSurely they’re going to come out blaming the room’s lighting ASAP…
James Mac
Monday, June 6, 2011 at 2:14 PMKudo really strikes me as a poor spokesman.
Braaains
Monday, June 6, 2011 at 8:33 PMCut the guy a bit of slack – it’s not like this game is giving him much to work with.
James Mac
Monday, June 6, 2011 at 11:19 PMNo… I’ve thought it for years.
He just looks like he doesn’t give a shit about his product.
femto
Monday, June 6, 2011 at 2:24 PMA limp hand over a knee = cool. Slow tracking = no fun.
ba!
Monday, June 6, 2011 at 2:38 PMIt’s like ‘Star Wars Kid: The Game’
AussieSniper
Monday, June 6, 2011 at 3:09 PMOhhh HAI!!
Adam
Monday, June 6, 2011 at 3:24 PMWe are getting so desperate now that we have to watch videos in french.
Robert M
Monday, June 6, 2011 at 5:55 PMEven though this is still in development, technical issues could change. I simply do don’t have any room or interest to jump around like an idiot in front of my TV.
I wish they were finishing Star Wars Battlefront III instead.
mattroe
Monday, June 6, 2011 at 6:05 PMYeah, it’s bad, but it’s not THAT bad, talk about overreacting. People just looooove to hate on the motion control fad. (Not that I have any plans to buy a Kinect)
Quirkhall
Monday, June 6, 2011 at 8:26 PMUh is anyone really surprised? This is Kinect we’re talking about here.
N0NEoftheAB0VE
Monday, June 6, 2011 at 11:56 PMWhy is it that Kudo wears his sunglasses at night?
AerintheGREAT
Tuesday, June 7, 2011 at 1:06 AMwow. Star Wars Kinect looks like that old Obi-Wan game on Xbox… only with all the good bits taken out.
Kizaru
Tuesday, June 7, 2011 at 1:32 AMI think the most emabrassing thing about it is not just the lag, but the way Kinect portrays Star Wars Universe in general. Jedi are supposed to be like futuristic ninjas and the enemies they fight in combat are also close to that match; Kinect makes you fight like an old person flailing about and not really having the need to employ strategies/skill using a lightsaber, and as a result you’re enemies are the same way, moving slowly and robotically, because that was the only way they could make you look badass in this game.
You know, like Alec Guiness in A New Hope, instead of say, Darth Maul or even Star Killer from The Force Unleashed games.
(Nickname withheld)
Tuesday, June 7, 2011 at 2:56 AMAnd this is why Kinect should have used a controller!