Don't do it. Just don't, please. Don't make your Kinect the "new Wii". Don't leave it sitting there with nothing to do until you place the mediocre Kinect Adventures disc into your console. We all did it with Wii Sports and we all did a horrible disservice to our Wii consoles by watching them collect dust and wondering why we spent over one hundred pounds on a Nintendo paper weight. These devices have games which you will enjoy, so I am here to provide awareness for the future of your shiny Kinect.
It's good to know that Microsoft have realised that the Kinect software lineup can be distributed across both a digital and physical platform. Xbox Live Arcade has become somewhat of a hotbed for new Kinect games and applications starting with Fruit Ninja Kinect which is a fruit chopping arcade game for eight hundred microsoft points and their Kinect Fun Labs which allows you to do funky things with your Kinect even if they don't work entirely as advertised.
Up and coming videogames for the downloadable side of things offer something for everyone it would seem. Burnout, the car smash 'em up is coming back for somewhat of a controversial return with Burnout Crash!. If you haven't guessed, it's a Burnout game devoted entirely to the crash mode seen in previous games. Played from a birds eye view you have to create some organised chaos in order to earn points, and what do points mean? achievements!
And for the younger generation of potential games enthusiasts we have Sesame Street: Once Upon A Monster which allows you and your young ones to interact and play with all your favourite Sesame Street familiars. A sure fire hit in the household, it will be.
If we head out of the online space and into a shop, we will see these purple cases sitting next to the overly saturated green Xbox cases which lets you know that these games are Kinect exclusive. While some games may feature a banner saying "Enhanced with Kinect" such as the upcoming Halo: Combat Evolved remake and Mass Effect 3, they don't require it. The purple cases for games such as The Gunstringer, a wild west shooting game in which you control a puppet on a string, do require the Kinect in order to function, however.
Gunstringer is out now and well worth your attention. It's a third person shooter in which you control the puppet with one hand and his incredible six shooter revolver with the other. Expect laughs aplenty with this game.
Other games which use Kinect are ones with big names, such as Minecraft, Ghost Recon, The Sims and more surprinsingly Steel Battalion. There most definitely is something for everyone!
