I don’t know what happened to that thing. It was a successful franchise, too. It swapped developers several times, I have to wonder if it just got too messed up in the process.

Maybe someday, there’s money to be made in it, yet.

If its free, it will typically fall under ‘Fair Use’ and you can’t get sued for it. Not worth the expense of lawyers. Besides, at the moment, its just free advertising for Star wars.

The Kinect, at E3, showed itself to have a surprising amount of sensitivity and speed with certain titles. Of course, just as often we saw bugs, lag, and crashes. It makes me wonder if the issue lies in the hardware or the software…

The big problem is just crap games for it, though. Designers have trouble working with the interface in a world of FPS titles. I think something creative like this would be a better fit.

I think that hope died when the Prequels came out and weren’t anywhere near as good. You think Lucas would let himself be upstaged by B-Canon?

Honestly, though, the issue with that is Lucas Arts relies on nostalgia. All the levels are Hoth and Bespin and movie settings because a wide audience already knows them as Star Wars locations. Once in a while you get something like KOTOR that has some balls and uses new elements in the established universe, but too often its just the movie trappings… again and again and…

Even if it isn’t for profit, I’m surprised Lucas didn’t send his Cease and Desist troopers.

Still…. I doubt Kinect could handle something like this. I just imagine frantic chaos as you get blown to hell because there’s too much lag for commands or they’re constantly misinterpreted by the sensors.

If by some strange chance something like this does come out with Kinect support though, and if you’re playing as the Empire, you’d best be able to force-choke inept captains and admirals. I’d probably buy a Kinect just for that.