Now this is were I had high hopes for Kinect Star Wars as I always felt that the chance to duck and dive around your front room swinging an imaginary light sabre would be pretty satisfying however in reality the game proves to be rather a let down in many areas.

 

 

Firstly are the issues of needing space to get the best out of the game and at times the Kinect system failed to pick up my every move which did lead to several frustrating moments. Even once you get past this are issues with how the system recognises your movements. These are particularly evident in the light sabre sections which prove slow, cumbersome and lacking in accuracy. This starts with the tutorial section where you are required to not only attack but block and countermove and this proves incredibly frustrating to say the least particularly as the early Kinect promos showed light sabre battles as a key make up of the future of the hardware.

 

OK so that’s the bad in the gameplay out of the way, what about the good? This undoubtedly comes in the form of the pod racing sections which are the highlight of the package and do prove pretty thrilling to play. These sections see your movements used to steer the vehicle and arm gestures to boost, fire weapons etc and work very well indeed and prove a joy to play.

 

 

To sum up I would say that in terms of overall gameplay the developers have tried to mix too many formulas instead of focussing on getting core aspects such as light sabre battles working well and this is a real shame and as a result means that the gameplay can best be described overall as nothing more than average.