I’ve yet to see convincing evidence that a first-person shooter (or indeed, any kind of non puppet-based shooter) could work on the Xbox 360’s Kinect motion controller. That said, if I had to pick an FPS that would work well with the hardware, it would probably be People Can Fly’s highly physical Bulletstorm
https://kotaku.com/holy-smokes-the-gunstringer-is-the-best-dead-cowboy-pu-5839657
So it’s nice to see that the guys in the video above used FAAST (Flexible Action and Articulate Skeleton Toolkit) to make a hack that lets PC Bulletstorm players control the game with their hands and feet.
In the video, you’ll see the picture-in-picture player controlling the shooting and gun motions using his hands. But also, he can lash out the game’s “leash” and kick out his left foot and cause his on-screen character to kick as well. Few games would benefit from a real-foot kicking option as much as Bulletstorm would, and despite the fact that I’d still rather play it with a controller, I could see myself trying this. Given that Kinect is officially coming to Windows PCs, I bet we can look forward to a lot more creative applications like this one.
https://kotaku.com/kinect-for-windows-coming-soon-to-change-the-way-we-do-5856467
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