Steel Battalion Heavy Armor Is Heavy On The Kinect Controls

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From Software have been keeping busy. In addition to the recently-released Dark Souls and upcoming Armored Core V, they’re also developing Steel Battalion Heavy Armor for the Xbox 360. Unlike the previous Steel Battalion, you’ll use a combination of the Xbox 360 controller and Kinect to control the game. Here, have a trailer:

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How do you use Kinect? You can use it to communicate and interact with your crew, give them high-fives, aim your turret-mounted machine gun, pull levers and so on. I can’t imagine From Software passed up the chance to have players lobbing grenades with Kinect in that last scene either.


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Ishaan Sahdev
Ishaan specializes in game design/sales analysis. He's the former managing editor of Siliconera and wrote the book "The Legend of Zelda - A Complete Development History". He also used to moonlight as a professional manga editor. These days, his day job has nothing to do with games, but the two inform each other nonetheless.