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IGN Preview of Deca Sports Freedom
At Konami's press conference during E3 2010 they showed off their new Kinect games. Included among them was Deca Sports Freedom, a sports collection based on the popular Wii line of games. While it looks a lot like the other Kinect sports game, there is one major thing that makes it stand out. It's the first Kinect game to offer a first person shooter gameplay element.
Ok let's get this out of the way right now: no it doesn't work very well, but this is an early alpha version. It's a paintball game where players step forward back and side to side to move, and flick their arm up to shoot. There's an auto targeting to hit enemies. The problem was that the move was so slow and clunky, that it was nearly impossible to play. If it gets improved then it could be pretty fun though. I don't see the Kinect as ever having major FPS on it, but a party paintball mini-game sounds about right for the system.
The other two games, Archery and Tennis, worked significantly better. Archery had the player extend their left arm out like you're holding the bow, and the right hand is against your chest like you're gripping an imaginary arrow. There's no need to pull back, just aim at the target using your left hand. Then a simple flick up fires the arrow.
Tennis plays like tennis. Seriously.
All in all this looks a lot like Wii Sports and Kinect Sports, but with the promise of 10 events, Deca Sports Freedom could be a cool little title to showcase the motion controls of Kinect.
©2010-06-17, IGN Entertainment, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Ok let's get this out of the way right now: no it doesn't work very well, but this is an early alpha version. It's a paintball game where players step forward back and side to side to move, and flick their arm up to shoot. There's an auto targeting to hit enemies. The problem was that the move was so slow and clunky, that it was nearly impossible to play. If it gets improved then it could be pretty fun though. I don't see the Kinect as ever having major FPS on it, but a party paintball mini-game sounds about right for the system.
The other two games, Archery and Tennis, worked significantly better. Archery had the player extend their left arm out like you're holding the bow, and the right hand is against your chest like you're gripping an imaginary arrow. There's no need to pull back, just aim at the target using your left hand. Then a simple flick up fires the arrow.
Tennis plays like tennis. Seriously.
All in all this looks a lot like Wii Sports and Kinect Sports, but with the promise of 10 events, Deca Sports Freedom could be a cool little title to showcase the motion controls of Kinect.
©2010-06-17, IGN Entertainment, Inc. All Rights Reserved