Sonic Free Riders is a cautionary tale about the importance of controls in gaming. Make a game interesting, give it solid graphics and some unique hooks, but don’t lock down the controls and you’re going to have a disaster on your hands.
Kinect needs a lot of room, more room than any video game control device before it. But where there’s a will to move furniture or rotate TVs, there is a way. This is how we made room in two homes.
Don’t mistake Kinectimals for a Nintendogs clone. This is the closest the Kinect launch has to a traditional video game, one that eight year old girls are going to coo at.