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Epic Games design director Cliff Bleszinski has said he would consider looking into integrating some form of Kinect functionality into future games in the Gears of War franchise, but such features won’t be “tacked on”.
“[Gamers] want the hybrid [Kinect] experience, which I think is pretty compelling. One of the sexiest things at the press conference was the Ghost Recon thing where the guy went bam and the gun exploded. That was hot. Good for them,” Bleszinski told IndustryGamers. “And I said last year at this very party… I think hybrids would be great. And now we’re seeing hybrids. So maybe eventually we’ll see more hardcore games that are Kinect only, but you have 6 million Gears, however many million Halos, and however many Call of Dutys. 26 years [of traditional controls] aren’t going to go [away] anytime soon, right?”
“If, in the event there were to be another Gears game, that’s something we might explore,” he said. “But we want to do it right. If I had unlimited amounts of time and a team I could sit down and make a cool Kinect game, and I would love to, but it’s a matter of time and opportunity costs right now.”
Microsoft’s been open about its desire to see first-party titles utilising Kinect so it seems it’ll only be a matter of time before Kinect and Gears of War start holding hands.
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