Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor goes button-free on Kinect

@ybfelix

It'd be really cool if the gamepad was the primary controller, while Kinect supplied secondary buttons that you could SEE inside the cockpit of the game. So, you'd drive the mech with the controller, but you could start your engine, activate windshield wipers (as in the previous game), turn on IR Vision, and so forth by moving your hands to where those buttons exist within the cockpit of the game. It wouldn't have to be precise, either. Wave your hand to the left to do one thing, wave it to the right to do another.

In mecha anime, pilots are always jumping into their mechs and punching buttons that are around their cockpit. It's just Mecha tradition. Since it's too expensive to sell a cockpit system to players, Kinect could do the next best thing.

HMmm... ya know, I haven't been excited by Kinect, but thinking of this... I'm really interested to see what FROM Software does. Those guys often do some pretty unique stuff (Demon's Souls/Chromehounds).

@GuardianLegend Yeah that's what he said.

@spyker3292 Amazingly. The first was a damned fine game, I expect no less from this.

@dukerayburn

I think its you cause it plays fine for me. Maybe make sure all your stuff id updated.

@dukerayburn

Although I admit the Scroll wheel thing is damn annoying

@midnite marauder
if it's anything like Chromehounds, they'll give some reason for why air power isn't as powerful as we think it would be.

@GuardianLegend well i guess if there were walking tanks that could all do AA fire/missiles all the time everywhere then yes, planes would be useless.

@Batzarro The worlds WOrst Detect What do you mean? steel Battalion was an amazing game. Fun as hell, and closest thing to a "mech sim" you will ever get.

@Robborboy I was not knocking on the game's quality. Let me explain.

Steel Battalion is an Xbox game that required a purchase of a huge, 200 dollar controller, had complex controllers and a feature where losing all you saved progress was possible.

There are no tits in it. No ruff space marines or over the top gushes of blood or anything.

And it was a big seller. In Japan, especially. I remind you, an Xbox game.

This is an anomaly of unlikelyness. Highly marketted and focus group infused games fail all the time in the industry. Lot's of great games, such as Shenmue, or Psychonauts, never recieve enought sales to support a franchise.

By all intents and purposes, Steel Battalion trounces any expectative of what SHOULD happen to games such as it. I f I could dissect such a success I would.

@JCat
I think that's a teaser trailer, not a demo. I'm sure you already knew that but you couldn't resist saying that.