Child of Eden Wowed the Crowd at PAX

Awesome graphics and gameplay!

That just looked like Starfox with lots of colors and very little aiming. Sorry, didn't impress me at all.

Fun for a few hours, never to be touched again.

Did not impress me one single bit...looks like a winamp plugin

This doesn't impress me at all. It looks like they took the concept from the end of single player of Super Smash Bros. When you shoot the names and trophies and they added abstract art to it. Doesn't get my vote. Nothing new.

lmao, good 1! i agree, lame as...

That was the absolute dumbest gameplay footage I've seen on this site for a long time...

looks like a good hand/eye coordination game to keep the kids amused on rainy days

what's so awesome about it?....i think it's simple just like all the console playing crowd....

almost forgot...maybe this will help with weight loss....oh my, America is fat, we need more simple games like this to help out, lol....wait, i am fat, what am i talking about, lol

awesome- only peoplehating are sony queers

I agree that the concept is simple(and perhaps borrowed from SSB), but anyone saying that this game isn't visually impressive needs to get his head examined.

well, at least we know that the lag time issues are not improving any. The screen was way behind the guy running the device. And it looks like some old PS2 game. Games are more fun when they do what you tell them to when you tell them to, and it actually looks good

I guess you did not notice the huge lag from the guy's motion to the movement on the screen. Plus that game will get boring very fast. Leave it to the console crowd to not only dumb down graphics and game play, but now we have dumbed down expectations for games.

Ok, so the first arm is to aim, how does the guy shoot?

And, you won't get no sore arms after playing this game for a prolonged time?

The guy seems to hail hitler every 5 seconds of the vid.

Maybe it's more fun in real life, but it looks really boring. I got bored after 1 minute.

My grand mother's warts look impressive on a screen that big. Take this home to your 40~50" plasma for a more realistic idea of what it will be like and you'll agree that its "meh" at best.

this game is for people that get high... like myself

I don't get it, It is worst than a bad shoot-em-up.

Have to agree with the guy who said it look like a winamp plugin....

It amused me for the first 2 minutes, then the criticism began. No score? There's the Kinect lag, plus a shooting lag? No level progression? No ending point in sight? No point at all to play it?
It'll make millions...

I think that's true about Kinect - dumbing down expectations for games, not consoles in general. This is Kinect's... big chance.. to have a successful game since launch. I don't think so though.

Still, I love all the fanboy comments around though - good for a laugh.

"well, at least we know that the lag time issues are not improving any. The screen was way behind the guy running the device. And it looks like some old PS2 game. Games are more fun when they do what you tell them to when you tell them to, and it actually looks good"

"I guess you did not notice the huge lag from the guy's motion to the movement on the screen. Plus that game will get boring very fast. Leave it to the console crowd to not only dumb down graphics and game play, but now we have dumbed down expectations for games."

Hey dumbasses, that video is from almost A YEAR AGO and the lag issues have been fixed now. Plus all you morons talking about lag don't have a clue anyway, even joypad based games have lag and Kinect games lag is about the same as an average 30pfs game played on a joypad, FACT! (The average 30fps game played with a joypad has around 133ms lag and the absolute minimum a 30fps game played with a joypad can have is 100ms. Kinect Adventures and Kinect Sports have about 150ms lag which is imperceptibly different to 133ms and they are just launch games. To put 150ms in perspective, it's half a blink of an eye.) Also those people claiming this looks crap obviously don't know that this is basically a sequel to the critically acclaimed Rez, or they're just pathetic Kinect hating trolls scared of one of the biggest revolutions in videogaming. Actually, they're probably BOTH!

You're the one who's dumbed down if you can't figure out the potential of Kinect. Then again you probably can't even handle Kinect's casual games so more complex games must terrify you, lol! I hope this game is successful and it deserves to be (no, I haven't played it but I've played Rez and I seriously doubt Tetsuya Mizuguchi would screw this up) but it's hardly Kinect's big chance for a successful game since launch since there are loads of games coming out. The only reason there haven't been many recently is because they were all delayed. (Including Child Of Eden, which was supposed to be released by now.) There are almost 10 million Kinect owners waiting for new games so I'm not too worried about sales figures for future games.

Rez

I like Chime more, but it's a good experiment / try out for the tech itself.

If they can manage to polish the control for it and allow more gestures (he was only waving and nothing else, kinda boring) this could be very awesome. Plus, they gotta drop the non-for-epileptic-people theme, lol.

Cheers!

Looks like a screensaver gone wild.

It's about time someone mentioned REZ. This game appears to be just a kinect port of REZ, and about 5 different PC games I have that look almost the same.

Wonder how many people will play this game under the influence...

I got bored after watching it for 1:30, but anybody saying that this is like a winamp plugin isn't too far off.

But you can't interact with any visualizations in winamp.

good news and bad news everyone! good news is this is the best kinect game yet! the bad news is this is the best kinect game yet!...