Motion controls are all the rage these days. Nintendo made the concept a hit and it wasn't long before Sony and Microsoft realized the new markets opened by the likes of Wii Sports were too big to ignore. Enter Project Natal, Microsoft's solution to giving people a way to play games without a traditional controller. In fact, there's no controller at all in Natal. It's just a camera that tracks your movements and then translates them on screen. The new piece of technology was unveiled at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in June, but it wasn't until the Tokyo Game Show that I got to try it out in person.
As has become the tradition in these demos, Microsoft's creative director for Natal, Kudo Tsunoda, opened things up by showing off Ricochet. It's a standard Breakout style game, only with Natal you'll have to leap around to swat balls back towards the targets. One time seeing this in person and you'll have to agree: the kids are going to go crazy for Natal. Ricochet is just so energetic -- it's exactly what a kid full of life would play until they collapsed for exhaustion.
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As has become the tradition in these demos, Microsoft's creative director for Natal, Kudo Tsunoda, opened things up by showing off Ricochet. It's a standard Breakout style game, only with Natal you'll have to leap around to swat balls back towards the targets. One time seeing this in person and you'll have to agree: the kids are going to go crazy for Natal. Ricochet is just so energetic -- it's exactly what a kid full of life would play until they collapsed for exhaustion.
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