Ok so I found this article on a new Star Wars game for Kinect. I found this interesting. So for those of you that have an X-Box and are a fan of Star Wars, you may want to check this out. I have inserted some of my opinion as well. This game is fun and entertaining, yet dull after playing for awhile.

I give full credit to Troy Wolverton for his amazing review;

The motion-sensing accessory for the Xbox 360 allows video game players to use their own bodies to control on-screen characters and actions. The premise of “Kinect Star Wars,” the new game for the Xbox, is simple: Use Kinect to let game players become virtual Jedi Knights, wielding lightsabers and controlling the Force.
Unfortunately, the game, while often fun, ultimately falls short of its goal. Yes, you do get to swing a virtual lightsaber. But thanks to the game’s rigid and predetermined nature, you don’t often feel like a real Jedi Knight.

In various challenges, you fight droids with your lightsaber, shoot at enemy targets while on board a speeder bike or spaceship, and attempt to fend off attacking enemies while on board a moving ship using your lightsaber and the Force.
It’s fun to swing your lightsaber, chop up droids or use your Force power to toss them through the air. And like some other Kinect games, it can provide quite a workout. What with all the swinging, jumping and evading, I worked up quite a sweat.

But the game’s graphics are disappointing. The characters and scenes lack detail and look cartoonish.

And the challenges start to feel repetitive after a while: First, several donnybrooks against enemy soldiers with some jumping around in between; then, a speeder bike chase or target practice; then repeat.

While you’re going through the scripted mode, you don’t have any control over what order you take the challenges. Nor do you have any control about where you go within a particular challenge. Your character is either ushered from place to place or steered to particular locations. In many cases, you don’t even get to choose which enemies you battle; instead, the game steers you to fight them in a preset order.

“Kinect Star Wars” has four other modes. In “Podracing,” you compete on various tracks in your racer. Just as in the main game, you don’t actually control the vehicle (Which is a bit of a bummer), instead you only nudge it in one direction or another and hit the turbo boost every so often. This mode in-itself can get quiet boring after playing it for awhile.

“Duels of Fate” is an attempt to distill “Kinect Star Wars” down to its essence. You play a Jedi who fights a succession of Sith bad guys in lightsaber battles. But here too the game is disappointing. Each battle is scripted so that you alternate between defending yourself against your opponent’s attacks and attacking him. The time allotted to attack an opponent is set in part by how well you defend yourself against them. The setup is hokey and contrived. Why can’t I attack and defend at the same time? And like the main game, it only recognizes certain gestures at certain times. When you are defending, “Duels of Fate” won’t let you jump over your opponent and it may not recognize when you kick or use your Force power on him.

“Rancor Rampage” and “Galactic Dance Off,” the two other modes, are more fun, in these modes you do not play a Jedi, so expectations are not necessarily high. In “Rampage,” you get to be a giant monster, smashing buildings, stomping on droids and eating people. Its fun for awhile, then it just gets boring. In the mode ” Galactic Dance Off”, you are able to dance in famous Star Wars locations such as Jabba the Hut’s palace. The Dancers include Han Solo, and Princess Leia. Watching them dance can be quiet amusing.

Unfortunately for “Kinect Star Wars,” a player’s expectations are much higher when it comes to acting the part of a Jedi. And the game just doesn’t meet the challenge. Instead in my opinion, it falls short of most peoples expectations.

If you want to read the full article on the site, here is the link;

http://www.insidebayarea.com/top-stories/ci_20335226/wolverton-jedi-mind-trick-kinect-star-wars-has