Gears of War Exile no longer in development, rumored to be Kinect game
Epic Games has revealed that Gears of War: Exile, a rumored Kinect extension of the franchise, is no longer in development.
Gears of War 3 may be the last we see of the COGs for quite some time, as developer Epic Games has revealed that another installment in the franchise--titled Gears of War: Exile--is no longer in development.
The canceled game was rumored to be a Kinect title.
"Gears of War: Exile was an unannounced game that I can't give any details about that has since been cancelled," Cliff Bleszinski told Gamespot.
Bleszinski has long talked about combining Microsoft's Gears franchise with their motion camera system. However, he insisted that it would have to be a game built from the ground-up for a controller-free experience. "I've been asked about integration into Gears. If we had put it into Gears 3, considering the development time table, it would have been a tacked-on feature," he told Eurogamer last year. "If we were to get around to doing something Kinect-based, we would want to dedicate something to it and really knock it out the park and make it a Kinect game."
It doesn't appear the team was able to make that project come to fruition.
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replyAndrew Yoon posted a new article, Gears of War Exile no longer in development, rumored to be Kinect game.
Epic Games has revealed that Gears of War: Exile, a rumored Kinect extension of the franchise, is no longer in development.-
They realized kinect sucks for any serious precision gaming and all hopped aboard the nintendo hype train!
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I'm pretty skeptical about Kinect. I've never tried it as I don't have a 360, but somehow I really doubt their current implementation of this technology has anywhere near the precision of a Wii Remote Plus or a PS Move.
I applaud Microsoft for being innovative but novelty only take you so far. In the end you can't provide a deep, non-gimmicky experience your motion technology is destined to be nothing more than a fad.-
* if you can't
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actually the kinect is a lot more advanced that the wii or move. but it has no support or real killer applications. as a device it's quite sophisticated.
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I just find it hard to believe that a camera can take an moving image in all its complexity, send it to a computer as anemic as an Xbox 360 to process, and yet the results are as precise as a physical motion device containing advanced sensors.
You could make the case it's more "advanced", sure. What I'm saying is I doubt it has nearly the precision of Sony or Nintendo's offerings. And the reviews of Kinect games seem to enthusiastically support my theory.
It's like a shitty beta version of an incredibly advanced and amazing technology. Give it time and hopefully it will become something better than it is now.-
And yes, the Wii is even weaker than the 360 but all the Wii has to do is take the sensor data and input that into the game. The 360 has to process an entire moving image and use fancy algorithms to make sense of it all. And if you read the Kinect Star Wars review that went up recently, it doesn't seem nearly up to the task.
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Of course technology will get better but you have to consider what came before it. There was nearly nothing like it before as complex and mainstream. There was this one arcade game I remember that captured your stance but it was very rudimentary.
If you read or look at how a Kinect works it's actually pretty simple and the biggest achievement on part of MSFT's MO is to make development for it easy. There's tons of people who've messed with it on a PC to do some neat stuff. Plenty of YouTube videos of that.
Some people overstated its capabilities and others succeeded with it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ho8KVOe_y08
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTKlNGSH9Po-
yeah props to MS for innovating. we'll see where this one goes.
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