It looks like it will be awhile before we can show Darth Vader what's up in Star Wars Kinect. In a conversation with the BBC, Xbox 360 creative director and Kinect evangelist Kudo Tsunoda said that the game is still in the works and will be released at some point during the holiday season...the 2011 holiday season . "We have a Kinect Star Wars game coming out for next holiday," he stated simply, confirming that it's still happening.

This is the first shred of news we've heard about the game since it made its debut at Microsoft's press briefing during E3 2010. And while we still don't if it's on-rails or not, at least the lightsaber play looks like it'll make it into the full release. "I think you could just easily imagine being a Jedi and using Kinect to make you feel you're part of a Star Wars experience," he said," building yourself up into a Jedi." 
 

It looks like it will be awhile before we can show Darth Vader what's up in Star Wars Kinect. In a conversation with the BBC, Xbox 360 creative director and Kinect evangelist Kudo Tsunoda said that the game is still in the works and will be released at some point during the holiday season...the 2011 holiday season . "We have a Kinect Star Wars game coming out for next holiday," he stated simply, confirming that it's still happening.

This is the first shred of news we've heard about the game since it made its debut at Microsoft's press briefing during E3 2010. And while we still don't if it's on-rails or not, at least the lightsaber play looks like it'll make it into the full release. "I think you could just easily imagine being a Jedi and using Kinect to make you feel you're part of a Star Wars experience," he said," building yourself up into a Jedi." 
 

Quest???

The stuff they showed off at E3 was overly staged. It sucked and looked like crap.

Seems like a pretty crazy application of Kinect tech,

If they can't get this right on the Wii, what hope is there for Kinect?
 
I mean, GiantBomb has a fecking GREEN SCREEN set up and Kinect still acts wonky!

Jedi meet horse.

It still sounds WAY too tech demo-y for my taste. Even if it wasn't on-rails (which would be kind of dumb if you think about it- am I supposed to stomp my feet in place to explore an area?), I would feel that the tactile feel of holding a lightsaber would be lost, since there's no controller.  
 
A Playstation Move version of the game, however, would be fun as hell. That I could totally see working as an on-rails game. Throw in some shooting stages a la Star Wars Trilogy Arcade and that would be a must-buy.

Jedi, meet rails. Rails, meet Jedi.

The trailer at E3 looked terrible. Hopefully with a whole years development to go, it might actually resemble a game rather than a tech demo by the time it is released.

gimme a nerf lightsaber and this might turn out worth renting?

"It still sounds WAY too tech demo-y for my taste. Even if it wasn't on-rails (which would be kind of dumb if you think about it- am I supposed to stomp my feet in place to explore an area?), I would feel that the tactile feel of holding a lightsaber would be lost, since there's no controller.  
 
A Playstation Move version of the game, however, would be fun as hell. That I could totally see working as an on-rails game. Throw in some shooting stages a la Star Wars Trilogy Arcade and that would be a must-buy. "

"If they can't get this right on the Wii, what hope is there for Kinect?  I mean, GiantBomb has a fecking GREEN SCREEN set up and Kinect still acts wonky! "

" @RinseWashRepeat said:

"If they can't get this right on the Wii, what hope is there for Kinect?  I mean, GiantBomb has a fecking GREEN SCREEN set up and Kinect still acts wonky! "

Bare in mind they didnt calibrate it correctly for the first few games. "

" Jedi meet horse. "

Oh man the footage from E3 was terrible, i'd kind of wiped it from my mind, thank you for reminding me :(

Kind of seems like an even more linear Force Unleashed, except you do that breaststroke motion a lot.

if you are going to move your Jedi by sliding forward then it will suck.

" Oh man the footage from E3 was terrible, i'd kind of wiped it from my mind, thank you for reminding me :( "

nah guys its cool no rush..matter of fact how about you just not make the game. thanks. 

" if you are going to move your Jedi by sliding forward then it will suck. "

Might make kinect not suck?

idk still doesn't seem all that good

The video they showed at E3 clearly wasn't even gameplay and was probably thrown together in 5 minutes just to say "hey, we have a Star Wars game".
I don't expect this to be anything particularly mind blowing, the movement limitations of Kinect are an issue for something like this.  But it could still be fun using the force powers and so forth and it could actually work pretty well as a slower paced RPG type thing.  But that's unlikely to happen.

" @Soulderon said:

" if you are going to move your Jedi by sliding forward then it will suck. "

didnt think of that initially, but yeah it has to be on rails just for getting around's sake. "

Did anyone else think penis-saber or just me? 
 
Gotta get my mind out of the gutter.

Can we just let Darth Vader rest in peace? I'm so tired of seeing Lucasarts continually overuse and rape his character in EVERY Star Wars game.

This game represents the opportunity for the Star Wars Kid to have a laugh at our expense.  I can imagine the You Tube videos for this.

Great more garbage that devalues the awesomeness of Darth Vader.

Man, are they ever gonna give Star Wars a rest?  The last
movie was out years ago & they just keep grinding out more
crap. Anyone ever bother to look over the Star Wars Expanded
Universe shit?  They've got a timeline from tens of thousands
of years ago up to 150 years past Return of the Jedi.  Sadly after
glossing over all of that shit, it showed how static & unchanging
the Star Wars Universe is!   It made it pretty dull.  Some fucker
probably needs to do a Star Wars Reboot.
 
What fuckin' Lucas needs to come out with now are Star Wars
Dojos.  So you can learn the mixed martial art karate style of a 
Jedi Warrior.  Hire some king-shit Karate Guru to design it.   It'll
spread like Mickey D's or Wal-marts all over the world & be
a billion dollar industry.
 
Part of the Jedi training will be to build your own Light Saber
Hilt with its own colored crystal inside.  Naturally the saber 
won't work (physics/reality getting in the way), but the blade
will be there in a mystic Zen sort of way.

I don't see how they can do a satisfying lightsaber game without any force feedback.

" This will suck if Star Wars games continue to portray Lightsabers as glowing sticks of plastic.  Fed up of them not slicing dudes. "

" @Lind_L_Taylor:    
 
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