Namco Bandai is hoping to sharpen your mind with Kinect, while also bringing an old pal to Microsoft's console using the motion control device.
In advance of next week's Tokyo Game Show, Namco Bandai has revealed a new brain training game for Kinect for Xbox 360. The man behind the game might look familiar to Nintendo DS owners -- it's Dr. Ryuta Kawashima, the face of Nintendo's successful Brain Training series. Kawashima served as an advisor on the title, which will be a mash-up of motion and puzzle mini-games.
One games includes a soccer game that has players solving math problems by kicking balls with the right answers on them. The publisher also demonstrated a Pac-Man mini-game that utilized Kinect. The player moved both hands to control the little yellow pellet muncher through mazes, as expected.
We're in Japan next week for the show, and it looks like Microsoft is doing its best to push Kinect on the Japanese at TGS. We'll get sweaty and tired bringing you the details, so stay tuned.
I think the Pac-Man game would be a lot cooler if you controlled Pac-Man with one hand and rotated the maze with the other. I'm sure it'd be a bitch to play, but I picture an Echochrome type game, only with no buttons.
love the intelligent posts such as "kinect suxx" and "move sucks bro". WOW, really guys. I mean, i know your opinion means the world to everyone else-but couldn't you give a reason why the move and kinect sucks? Oh wait, you haven't played them have you? you just saw some video coverage or read a post and made your awesome opinion from that. Typical. OR your so covered with fanboyism jizz that it doesn't matter if Move or Kinect are great because the sauce has blurred your vision. I for one have played with the move and kinect- And they both do have good points, and some negatives. But my opinion is they both don't "suxx"- and i form my opinion with actual play time. The other thing i want to mention is if the Move or Kinect came out with ideas that are based on others ideas-well that is great if they work and are fun-sexualC. I don't care if it looks like a copy-Sony's Move, or if Kinect has pacman- If it is fun, then the developers did their job-because at the end of the day that is what this hobby is about-having FUN..
Oh, and I agree Tuxy79. Pretty annonying post above ya. :) I really wish my favorite hobby didn't have a bunch of fanboyism-and a bunch of "gay" comments. I remember when I was a kid and it was Nintendo and Sega, it seemed everyone I knew was just about the gaming and not about what system 'Sucks" or not. Just enjoyed the hobby and the GAMES.
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4:20 PM on 09.08.2010
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Don't they all, really?
I just want to know if I will be able to yell "pickled prunes" at my Xbox to make him grimace. Microsoft has officially invaded the blue ocean.
What next for kinnect?
Super Bario Brothers in Kinect World?
Donkey Kinectong
Bario Kinkart
Kinectroid Prime
Fuck me sideways, get some fucking IDEAS Microcopy.
And people say the Move is copying Nintendo because "durp durp you hold something in your hand durp" - seriously guiz. Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet.
most annoying post I have read today.