First Kinect Review

It's a week before Kinect arrives to Xbox 360's in the US, (Nov. 4th and Nov. 10th in the UK.) CVG was allowed to play with Kinect and wrote a little something about it. Microsoft did post a message saying that it was a PREVIEW not a review but we don't care, it was given a 5 out of 5 and highly recommend by London's Evening Standard Newspaper.




Mark Prigg seems to have spent a decent chunk of time with the tech. He writes: "Just occasionally a piece of technology comes along that really is a 'game changer' rather than just a marketing slogan - and Kinect is one of them. It's the stuff of science fiction, letting you play games and navigate through menus with a swipe of your hand. It is the film Minority Report come to life - and it works."


The Standard journo was "shown several technical demos which reveal the incredibly complex mathematics behind the technology".

Although he admits that it's difficult to foresee how "battle titles Halo and Call of Duty will translate", the initial launch line-up is branded "incredibly good fun".

Prigg calls the system "a glimpse into the future of computing".



He concludes: "In a few years, even our desktop PCs may be using a new version of Windows with Kinect built in. But for now, this is an essential purchase for any Xbox owner, and if the games are good enough, could help Microsoft steal the lucrative family games market from Nintendo."

As a CoD and Halo gamer I'm not interested in using Kinect for them, I like my controller thank you. I am looking for just what he described, navigating Menus, the dashboard or even games in the future created for the Kinect controller. I don't want to us the new tech on old games, that sounds like a hack job.

We get use to new technology very quickly, when I use my debit card I don't want to use the buttons anymore, I touch the screen, sometimes several times before I realize I need to use the old fangled buttons. Everything should be touch screen which leads me to believe that before long we'll set up our game choose our lobby and message our friends and then we'll pick up our controller for a game of death match.