Motion-controlled rail shooter Blue Estate coming to Xbox One

[Dohc-WP]

HESAW, developer of the on-rails, motion-controlled shooter Blue Estate, is well aware that a Kinect is bundled in every Xbox One owner's purchase. The studio is bringing its adaptation of Viktor Kalvachev's comic book series to the gesture-friendly console, noting in a press release that they'll be using the "unprecedented accuracy and precision of Kinect" to let players rack up kill combos.

News of the Xbox One port follows last month's reveal of a PS4 version, which will be controlled with the gyroscopic abilities of the Dualshock 4 instead instead of camera-tracked hand movements.

Fans of the comics may be all set, but our own Jess Conditt wrote that the game has a "natural ability to turn sexiness into exploitation, humor into humiliation and my own enjoyment into exasperation." Beyond that, Jess' review found Blue Estate to be structurally troubled, wondering if the audience is to "forgive poor gameplay mechanics because the game is supposed to be crass."

Source: Joystiq

 

[Mister 44]

First Rambo, now this. Are rail shooters making a comeback? (Please say no).

 

[Dohc-WP]

First Rambo, now this. Are rail shooters making a comeback? (Please say no).

i like rail shooters, dead space extraction, house of the dead 2,3 overkill, resident evil darkside chronicles etc.

 

[Venom]

Theres no Fun in rail shooters , who wants to play that at home the only time it was fun was with Time Crisis 2 in the arcades

 

[Mister 44]

The IGN review of Rambo had the following to say that sums up rail shooters perfectly for me:

...this is Time Crisis without the colourful plastic pistols. Prior to its arrival I was not aware this was a type of game people made. After playing it I’m certain it shouldn’t be.

(sauce)

However, motion-control (like in Blue Estate) does give you back the light gun in some sense and probably improves the game a huge amount. I still wouldn't buy it for myself, though.