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Epic Games design director Cliff Bleszinski has said he’s all for controller-free gaming, but fans of the Gears of War series shouldn’t expect to find Kinect functionality in Gears of War 3.
Asked specifically if Gears of War 3 will support Kinect, Bleszinski said: “You have to be careful with those kinds of controls because if we’re in a situation where Microsoft’s like, we have this new stuff! You should stick it in your game. We’re just like, all right… look I chainsaw you now [moves arm in a cutting motion]. Gamers can smell that a million miles away, and it wouldn’t sell. It feels tacked on, as opposed to doing something from the ground up. So you won’t see Kinect support in Gears 3 any time soon.”
That said, Bleszinski revealed a desire to see a strong uptake in controller free gaming.
“The technology intrigues me,” added Bleszinski. “I’m much more of a fan of motion controls that have no controller than any that don’t. My coffee table currently looks like a MadCatz graveyard, and I would like to have less controllers right now. But the thing that excites me most of all is a hybrid. I think the best Wii games are the ones that use the Nunchuck and some very cool waggle controls, like the upcoming Zelda, or Mario Galaxy 1 and 2. Those are the ones I want to see. You’re going to see more hardcore developers building games that are a good hybrid approach that do it intelligently as opposed to, yeah, okay, fine, we have it. Look, that works.”
The Gears of War director went as far as to outline some possible game ideas which could operate using a hybrid control system.
“You could easily do a game where… okay, here’s a free one [grabs a 360 controller]. It’s a hack and slash Bethesda-type game and you’re playing as a guy who has a sword and all these abilities but you have magic spells – kind of like an old Peter Molyneux game where you drew out your spells. You pace the game properly and then you’re like, oh okay, I’m going to draw a pentagram and that summons a demon. And then you go back and who knows?
“Maybe the next generation of consoles will have that built in and this [the 360 controller] will have less buttons and then you supplement it with voice also. And then you command your troops. So maybe you’re a guy with a sword and he has magic abilities and you tell your guys, go forth and destroy my enemies and drive them before me and hear the lamentations of their women, and they do. It’s just a matter of finding the right creative solutions, right?”
Read our full interview with Cliff Bleszinski here.
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