XBLIG gets voice-controlled shooter

[Ride88]

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011- ... ed-shooter


Control pads, gyroscopes, accelerometers, Kinect: all old hat. The future of game control, according to one imaginative indie developer, is speech.

Out this week on Xbox Live Indie Games for 240 Microsoft Points, PewPewPewPewPewPewPewPewPew is a side-scrolling shoot 'em up that's controlled entirely via a microphone.

Saying "Pew" into the mic makes the game's hero simultaneously fire projectiles and boost his jet pack, while shouting unleashes your smart bomb.

A Rock Band mic is recommended, though any Xbox 360-compatible device will work, including headsets.

[DocHauser]

Brings back memories of the Konami Laser Scope for the NES...

(About 7 minutes in)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kBMscW_dVg

FIRE! FIRE! FIRE! FIRE! FIRE!

[Sumez]

Delightfully stupid. Won't buy it though.

[Ghegs]

Hah. For 80 MSP maybe, for the retarded fun of it, but not 240.

A couple of years back, at a local small-time gaming con, there was a tournament played with SingStar Pong, a minigame in one of the PS2's SingStar titles. It was just Pong, but controlled via sound, high sounds moved the paddle up and low sounds down. Definitely a lot of fun at 1:00 AM when you're just tired enough to not care about screaming like a moron in front of other people.

[Sumez]

Btw, the sound effects sound like Starfox/Starwing on the SNES...