No Kinect for Gears of War: Judgment

"Core" games need some sort of controller. Is the Move or Wii controller's the way of doing it? The idea of controller-free is great and there are some really good ideas that have come out (most in the PC world, though). The problem is that people don't want to always be up and moving around everywhere while they relax to play a game. Plus Kinect limits you in what you can do. It takes a drastic amount of memorizing motions and gestures to do simplistic tasks. You can add in a controller and make the experience much better, but then you've killed the idea of controller-free gaming.

Controller-free gaming is not ideal for "core" games. You need the buttons and the precision analogs. You need the pressure-sensitive triggers. Gestures can be implemented in relevant ways into games, but it's going to be hard to find that perfect mix using Kinect in it's current form.

Using only the voice recognition features of Kinect is pathetic. Sure it works well and possibly better than a headset. But Kinect was built to be much more and you're underselling the idea of Kinect to reduce it to a fancy voice command box.

I wouldnt of liked having this game supported  by kinect because when i game i game to have fun and relax i wouldnt want to have to stand up every few minutes to curb stomp somebody id much rather just press a button.

Thank God... Cliffy B rules

Cliffy B is like a hardcore gamer's advocate.

He says what we think.

You guys already beat me to it, but I gotta say there are probably a lot of very dissapointed Gears fans out there right now.

Kinect's voice features seem to be the only ones that work well enough to function properly in fast-paced, "core" games like this.  It blows my mind that so few developers have taken advantage of that aspect of the tech, as it arguably works far better in the first place.

...and here I was so looking forward to Gears of War players doing "jazz hands" to shoot their enemies :P

Thank god. Kinect is not really suited for games other than Dance Central. Gears of War series is perfectly fine with a standard controller.

Is this supposed to be good news or bad news?

hey gamespot, next time you put a girl gamer on the camera, don't just put her on display to attract more male audience because most all of your audience are males anyways!! and first time i saw ms violence was in the video feature where she go over some tips for BF3..if she's really "PRO" , next time, give us tips that PRO players actually use..not stupid basic moves and strategy any retard can find out for themselves

How is this news? Who on the bloody earth would want Kinect crap for GOW? Gimmicks DONT make good games.

Cliff should use a Lancer chainsaw to cut through every Kinect device in the planet. Kinect sucks!

Kinect is very good device, but it's games sucks. Case closed

Still...you gotta hand it to Cliffy....he tried, it didn't work, and he didn't force a broken product on us....like say Steel Battalion.

Although, I still believe that his recent ideals prove 90% of his brain cells are currently shot.....this however was a smart move.

Given Gears has always been a squad based fight ME3 like voice commands could have worked well and those weren't a gimmick!

I am glad that kinect is not part of the game.  Gears Kinect?  don't think so

The Kinect isn't fully realized because asshole game companies like this never give it the actual chance, time and money to develop a game that could actually show some potential to other developers.

Means they focus more on the core gameplay of the series which is fine by me.

somethings are not meant to be!How the hell would you fight a war without a weapon? How would you zoom the camera if you don't have one in your hands? by waving into air?

kinect was a worse idea than Eye Toy to begin with, SONY used it again with move, but still it won't catch on. I mean come on!

Do we all live in big houses with 100 square feet empty space around us? hell no! core gamers mostly sit in a chair, in a room which won't surpass 20 feet, with a lot of crap in their space. There's barely enough room to act like a real soldier!

Kinect sucked, just like eye toy sucked. and Kinect 2 will fail, just like MOVE failed.

Giving orders to your teammates through kinect is really rewarding. And using it to show emotions to characters and get feedback would be awesome. but that would cost too much! so overall, kinect isn't worth it.

Instead of all this technology crap, make more first party titles that could really standup to likes of god of war and Quantic Dreams games! Stop milking Halo and Gears!

That's good, but just you watch...MS will give them enough money to change their minds.

Good news. :)

Good. It's not like most of us GoW fans would ever want or use it to begin with.

In other words, Kinect is trash. I still can't believe some people think Kinect can handle games like Gears of Wars. That's simply not possible.

Kinect represents some amazing technology, but so far its only use in gaming is for dancing. As far as voice commanding my xbox, come on, who the hell is that lazy? I'm not shelling out cash for such a stupid reason.

Heh --  I nearly forgot to include the AWFUL Windows 8-style 95% advertising-driven interface we've all been stuck with for the last several months.  THAT is likewise Kinect-based RUBBISH.   I don't know a single player that actually uses Kinect to drive their Xbox.

Kinect is actually NOT rubbish -- assuming we're talking about dancing games or anything involving "jumping around in place, waving your hands like an idiot."   Girls and kids love those games, and the Kinect integration works surprisingly well with multiple players.  

...but for any other purpose....  Yes -- Kinect is rubbish.