Latest Star Wars game looks to add a new side to the force as it will test gamers on their moves on the dance floor as opposed to the light saber.
Gamers can find out plenty about their favourite games if they know where to look. Whether it be from CVs posted with work experience on certain titles that are not out yet, job advertisements for companies, promotions on retail websites or in this case,
descriptions on ESRB ratings.
The Electronic Software Ratings Board is the body which rates the games and describes exactly what kind of an experience and what content gamers can find in their games as well as providing guidelines in terms of age ratings.
Making full use of Microsoft’s motion control peripheral, the Kinect, gamers can expect to partake in a number of mini-games which include duels between Jedi warriors, Pod racing as well as, wait for it...dance competitions!
Here is what the ESRB had to describe the game:
“In this action game, based on the Star Wars universe, players use their body movements to perform activities that include dance tournaments...” at this point many wondered if this was all some crude practical joke. Sadly, it was not. It continued, “...Pod
racing, and Jedi duels.”
It goes on to describe two rather interesting uses how gamers can expect to use the Kinect to take on the role of a “giant creature” as it “rampages through the city” among other things, before coming right back to, “In the dancing mini-game, some female
characters perform suggestive moves (e.g., gyrating their hips/buttocks) and wear revealing outfits (partially exposed cleavage/buttocks).”
The last few bits may be a cause for excitement for some of the rather less social, read ‘nerds’, Star Wars fans, yet one wonders if this really what a Star Wars game needs in order to be taken seriously. However, seeing the lack of AAA titles for the Kinect
and the ‘party game’ image that the peripheral has made for itself, it only seems fitting.
On the bright side, gamers could potentially see the iconic troopers from the universe take on a Sith, in what could very well be one of the most historic dance-offs in history, though we do not know how cleavage and slightly exposed buttocks would work
in that situation.
The game was demonstrated during the Electronic Entertainment Expo earlier this year, yet it left many unimpressed with its sluggish and constantly lagging controls. The publishers, Microsoft, also pushed the release date back from “holiday 2011” as they
needed more time in order to reach the game’s “full potential”.
If adding a dancing competition is their idea of reaching the game’s maximum potential then gamers will surely look at the game in a much less serious tone.
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