The thing I find to be the biggest turn off about that video in the OP is the area affect lightning(?) attack.
Other than that it looks like Crytek checked out Gladiator Battle from Sports Champions and made it into a full fledged, but non-motion controlled, game. Personally I think Ryse would be an awesome Move / Kinect game. As a button mashing H'n'S however I think it lacks the fluidity of a GoW or Ninja Gaiden which is the hallmark of great H'n'S.
Unfortunately because a lot of the hard core have a default setting of Kinect/Move = bad the game would not have done well as Kinect only. But I think they should implement a Kinect option. Of course playing with motion control most people would not be able to play for more than about 20 minutes at a stretch because that gameplay looks like a damned good workout.
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