Project Natal- Something worth looking at?
Microsoft's presentation at E3 really was something special. I was getting a bit bored until my favourite director Spielberg walked onto the stage hinting at a new Microsoft gadget.
The conference was then handed over to Lionhead studios where they showed Milo off to the world. The game demo that the woman was playing enabled her to hold a conversation with a boy in the game. A lot of people have said there is no point to a lot of this but to me it seems like the future of gaming.
You are able to actually use your whole body in the games. In the Burnout Paradise demo you can pretend to hold a steering wheel with your hands and step in and out to go and stop. Penalty shootouts become more realistic with a run up and a kick that is shown as you do it on the game. This isn’t Nintendo’s attempt at motion sensing, this is full body motion sensing control. Natal is able to scan a real life object which can come in useful within the game as you can play using your own things.
If this is released in the way the videos and previews have been put forward to the public then it is going to be one of the biggest leaps in technology we have ever seen. On top of this, at the recent Tokyo game show major developers such as Sega and Capcom have both announced their backing of the hardware and this is on top of all the other major developers which include EA, Activison and of course the expected Microsoft Game Studios who are headlining the stuff.
For more information on this amazing new gadget it might be worth checking out a gadget blog.