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Project Natal aims to get gamers holding conversations with their televisions (if Milo is anything to go by) and insists that “you are the controller”. But how on earth would an FPS with no control pad work? It seems that perhaps Rare are already giving this serious consideration.

The latest issue of trade weekly MCV carries a feature on first person games, and the history of their success. It is here that Rare’s head of studio Mark Betteridge is quoted as saying: “Right now our sights are trained on Natal, which is a great opportunity to break new ground with content and gameplay. It’s also an opportunity to exercise some genre evolution, so hopefully we’ll be able to develop something on that front.”

While no announcement of a game in production, it certainly tells us that Rare will be first in line for a Natal FPS, and that they’ve already been thinking about it…

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The CEO for Activision's Guitar Hero brand has told TechRadar that the company is excited about the possibilities for future Guitar Hero games using Microsoft's Project Natal motion control tech, and is already working with the software giant.

 

Activision's Dan Rosensweig also talked about potentially opening up in new 3D tech and has explained more about the thinking behind [Activision CEO] Bobby Kotick's recent comments on direct-to-TV guitars.

 

"The more ubiquitous gaming becomes, the more places that people want to play it, the more places we want to be," said Guitar Hero CEO Dan Rosensweig.

 

"As technology gets cheaper and more interesting – take, for example, something like Project Natal, you can imagine a series of different ways that it might be fun to add that kind of capability to music genre games," he added.

 

"So yeah, we are working with Microsoft on that. We think that's exciting. And we are working with all the first-party vendors on all the new technologies, because each first party offers something unique.

 

"Every time there is new technology and new capability, we really do try to be amongst the first to innovate and leverage it. Natal is something that we find particularly intriguing."

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If you click on the Guitar Hero link you can also see them talking about it in 3D



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I guess people only care about negative Microsoft news on this site...



Wonder how specified Guitar Hero will be, because if it's not THAT specific, the eye that comes with Eyepet might well do the same thing, no? More specifics would've been nice :(



papflesje said:
Wonder how specified Guitar Hero will be, because if it's not THAT specific, the eye that comes with Eyepet might well do the same thing, no? More specifics would've been nice :(

Well Microsoft just announce like a new muscle controller a couple of days ago. And I believe that Natal is a lot more powerful then Eye Toy



Guitar Hero with no guitar? Meh.

But Rare working on an FPS using Natal, now that's interesting.



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arghh why did you use that logo of RARE it reminds me of Donkey Kong COuntry & being little again!

@papflesje

stop trolling, this NATAL camera is much more powerful than the PS Eye thing....thats been proven now on several occasions I think.



All hail the KING, Andrespetmonkey

and Still i'd like to see it in action.
GH with guitar fails GH without Guitar fails even more , but i like seeing something more fun.


this is thread number 41564 of "wow natal is awesome... you have our words on it" , i don't trust words



I am really interested to see what developers are going to be doing with Natal.



darthdevidem01 said:
arghh why did you use that logo of RARE it reminds me of Donkey Kong COuntry & being little again!

@papflesje

stop trolling, this NATAL camera is much more powerful than the PS Eye thing....thats been proven now on several occasions I think.

Seeing as how they changed their logo when they were bought by Microsoft I don't see how 

New Logo

Old logo



darthdevidem01 said:
arghh why did you use that logo of RARE it reminds me of Donkey Kong COuntry & being little again!

@papflesje

stop trolling, this NATAL camera is much more powerful than the PS Eye thing....thats been proven now on several occasions I think.

I can't understand your post, too few capitals.

 

And I was merely asking a question, not stating that it's weaker or equal to the PSeye, only that I can see Activision keeping it quite general, so they can release it on ps3 (with pseye) as well.