But in order for movement to be natural, it would need natural gravity friction. Waving a 150lb sword around like a plastic light saber strikes me as pretty much the exact opposite of natural.
Sure, you can´t have weight, but that is equal to any peripheral.
Even with Move or the Wiimote, the weight is minimal.
With Kinect, by having nothing in your hands, you will focus much more in what the character has in their hands, and by the fact that you are the character, it ends up bieng what you have in YOUR hands.
But, it will need some imagination and immersion, it will be like kids playing with make believe guns.
What is better, to have something or nothing in your hands?
Well, i really can´t tell before trying it out, but with Move or the Wii, what you are holding has nothing to do with what the character you are controlling has, so, to some degree, is less immersive.
The best way i can describe how cool Kinect can be (at least, in my mind), if MS wants to, and the other motion controller can´t....imagine this.
An RPG, it can be Skyrim if you want to.
You are a soldier, with a knife on your right boot, a health potion of the left side of your belt, and in your back, crossing each other, a two-handed sword and a War Axe.
The grip of the two-handed sword come out near your right shoulder, with the Axe one coming out near your left shoulder.
Then you see a group of three goblins.
You take your hand to your boot, take out your "invisible" knife and throw it, killing one of the goblins.
Then you run to the other two.
The closer Goblin swings his sword as to cut your head, but, by crounching a bit, the sword misses; your are still running, and with your right arm, you throw a punch that makes the other goblin fall.
You turn around, take your right hand to the right shoulder, and pull the sword out, that you handle with both hands.
You fight the goblin that just stood up.
The other goblin runs to you, screaming, and with a quick motion of your wrist, you crack his skull with the grip of the sword.
The other goblins hits you, making you scream and drop your sword...he laughs.
You take your hand to the belt left side, take out the health potion and drink it...you are restored.
You take your hand to the left shoulder and take out your axe, the goblin looks scared by the size of the weapon, you grin and scream back, to taunt and scare...your achieve that, he runs aways.
You follow.
After some running, you find the goblin.....and he is not alone, two others are there, and one Ogre.
Surprised, you open your hand and the axe falls.
All of them look at you, and take out their weapons.
The player takes his hands to the side, clap them together and begin to make a circular motion....on screen, the hero is making a fireball.....on the living room, the player throws the fireball....
How cool would that be, how life like?
