Death has been good to Michael Jackson, his songs got back in the charts, he had a film out, everyone seemed to miraculously forget about all of the kiddy fiddling allegations, none of us had to look at that weird face of his anymore and he’s even got a new game coming out called Michael Jackson: The Experience!
The new game casts the player as the gloved one and utilises Microsoft’s over-hyped and underwhelming Kinect technology. A camera records the players movements and has der fuhrer von popmusik act them out in real time while a microphone allows the player to sing along and believe that they are, for that moment, Michael Jackson, except without their face melting off, more drugs in their system than every 80s metal band combined, vast collections of Nazi memorabilia and numerous allegations of child molestation (although we can easily imagine that a few people who purchase this game will fit all of these criteria).
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Project Natal is the revolutionary new controller-free gaming platform for Microsoft’s Xbox 360.
Rather than having a physical controller in your hand, you become the controller as your movements are captured by camera in front of or on top of your TV and translated into on screen action. Hecklerspray was fortunate enough to be given a go on the demo game Ricochet.
The future of videogames? Meh, it was OK.
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What happens when you have the Halo franchise, a good one that sells a ton, which is primarily the stomping ground of 14-year-old American boys?
Why, you release a more cerebral game based in the universe, obviously, leaving the world with Halo Wars.
That makes sense, doesn’t it? Brash, loudmouthed little Yanks love thinking, don’t they? Hmm?
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Those looking for a real game to sink hours of (apparently) wasted time into look away now – those thinking “wow, I really want to play the crap out of Fallout 3″ or “I love the pitched online battles of Gears of War 2″ should probably just go away.
You’re In the Movies isn’t going to appeal to you.
Right: now they’ve gone we can get down to business. We assume if you’re still reading this it means you know absolutely nothing about games, nor do you really care to know.
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