Kinect launches with 19 titles – Dance Central looks most promising

I've spent some time recently playing and reviewing Just Dance 2 on the Wii. It's fun enough and will appeal to the millions who bought the original. But I couldn't help thinking that it was just the warm-up - literally - for the real thing. Yes, I'm talking about Dance Central on Kinect. The game is one of 19 Kinect-enabled titles that will launch in November (Kinect launches on Nov 10th in the UK)

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Microsoft want to see more regular Halo releases

Two things struck me about Halo recently. One is that Reach may actually be the "best" one yet - at least the multiplayer element. The second was that next year will be the tenth anniversary of the original Halo. Ouch. A lot of the players shooting me in the head in Reach were probably still in primary school then - bless 'em. Since the original we have seen the main trilogy plus 3 spin offs, the later being the recently released Reach. So there have only been six Halo games in 10 years and that includes the headshot-unfriendly RTS game Halo Wars. Compare this to the amount of Call of Duties or Medal of Honors we have had since 2001. However, with Halo 3: ODST and now Reach out in consecutive years we could start seeing more regular Halo "product". Certainly Microsoft are hoping so.

Are consoles really better than PCs at shooter games?

I've played on Kinect and was mightily impressed. Responsive and intuitive, Microsoft's upcoming hands-free motion controller will eventually host some unique gaming experiences as well as being a brilliant party starter. I exepct it to be huge. This doesn't mean though that I want to play "core" games on it. First person shooters? Most sports games? RPGs? The pad will do very nicely thanks. Kinect creator Kudo Tsunoda - unsurprisingly - thinks I am wrong. He uses the example of first-person-shooter (FPS) games.

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