http://www.videogamer.com/news/rare_shooters_will_work_on_natal.html

'You just need to be able to rethink how you approach those particular design problems.'

Speaking to VideoGamer.com Rare design director George Andreas has revealed that while it may not be immediately obvious how a first-person shooter would work with Natal, it's just a case of having to rethink how you approach the particular design problems.

"We’re learning a lot of stuff about Natal every day, and there are many types of experiences that can be created with that technology. You just need to be able to rethink how you approach those particular design problems," said Andreas.

"To take a shooter, as an example, you would just have to rethink the way a shooter works," explained Andreas. "Shooters work the way they do at the moment because they’re based around the original Xbox 360 controller. You throw that away, you throw that interface away and here’s a completely different interface – now how do we create a shooter for this? Does it mean that you have to run, strafe, turn, throw grenades in the way that you’re used to? Maybe not. Maybe there’s another way of doing shooters."

He added: "You’re probably not going to get exactly the same experience that you do with a conventional controller, but that could also be a very good thing. There may be new avenues there that people haven’t explored yet that might open the product up to an even broader audience. We don’t know."

Andreas concluded: "So, can you do a shooter on Natal? Of course you can. Will it be exactly the same as something you’re used to on a control pad? The answer to that is probably not, but does that mean it’s better or worse? Well we’ll see what we can do."

Natal is currently expected to be released in 2010.

I think Natal is going to create a rather large divergence in genres.  Not sure what they will be, but I am sure of it.  It has to if it wants to survive.

Perfect Dark 2 using Natal, perhaps?

What a vague answer. Basically they haven't yet figured it out, but they're trying at least!

If they can get some sort of pointing system using Natal, that would be a start. A gun peripheral, or general pointer peripheral (of whatever tech), would probably work, and use Natal for extra controls such as grenade throwing etc.

lol natal is going to suck a big one for FPS.

of course natal can do shooters...rail shooters.

can anyone summerize the article? i need to go soon

Incoming ports of RE: UC, Dead space extraction, and Darkside Chronicles to xbox 360.

basically...we don't know how to do FPS on natal...but we're gonna pump out some crap to make it happen anyways.

How?

You mean with a peripheral?

Natal needs a wireless nunchuck, it's cool that it has full body motion but your still standing in front of your tv, your not actually in some virtual reality so you can't use your full body motion even if the camera can capture it. Actually running around, jumping and ducking would be cool but you just don't have the space for it. Some genres will work great on natal, especially platform games that you controle using your hands or rts games (just two examples) but shooters need more complicated controls. Unless they let us shoot with one hand and run with the other but that would just be weird and definatly not the next step in gaming.