NEWS - Wednesday, August 17, 2011
SB Heavy Armor Uses Kinect and Controller
First announced at TGS last year, the Kinect-based Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor is finally revealed in its first trailer. Like the original game, Heavy Armor has players jump into huge, unwieldy robots called "Vertical Tanks." The above trailer reveals an oppressive World War 2-plus-robots style world in which computers have all been destroyed, and then everyone goes to war.
As revealed by Capcom’s fact sheet, Heavy Armor maintains the series’ legacy for complicated controls by using two forms of input: both Kinect and the standard Xbox 360 pad. The controller is used for movement, aiming, and firing, while the Kinect camera picks up "upper body gestures" used for starting the engine, using the scope, or operating a turret-mounted machine gun. You can also communicate verbally and nonverbally with your crew members. High fives are specifically mentioned.
Steel Battalion will engage your whole body in robo-warfare next year.
So now Kinect and the Xbox 360 controller have replaced this:
I don’t know about you, but I’m going to miss the over the top mammoth controller setup.
Source: http://www.joystiq.com
