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John Carmack, co-founder at id Software and creator of the hugely popular and influential first-person shooters Doom and Quake, has revealed there’s no place for his studio’s current FPS games on Kinect, but has admitted he’d like to make a game for the new motion controller.
“I have an itch to make a Kinect title for Xbox LIVE,” he told Joystiq, though he admits, “I don’t even know what I’d want to do yet.”
Don’t expect a version of Rage with motion controls, but something more akin to an iPhone game.
“I can’t use Kinect for our real games; there just isn’t a place for our current FPSs on there,” Carmack said. “But it’s an interesting technology, and an Xbox LIVE game would be the perfect platform to do something like that on, at about the same scale of [a game for] an iOS device.”
Carmack’s comments regarding FPS titles on Kinect don’t come as a huge surprise – we’re struggling to see how the “your body is the controller” device can be utilised to replace relatively complex controls – but his interest in the device does provide some encouragement. Just look at what he was able to produce on the iPhone.
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Rage
- Platform(s): PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Xbox One
- Genre(s): Action, First Person, Shooter
