Game seemed promising, but Kinect controls are clumsy at best. Need more distinction between movements.

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If any lexicographers ever get around to compiling a Dictionary of Videogaming, a picture of the original Steel Battalion joystick and pedals assembly...

Without Kinect this is an 8/10 game. With it, this is a maddening, brutal, clumsy mess that'll kick your ass and tie you in knots. It simply doesn't work.

The constant cockpit view is brilliantly immersive; Some neat ideas about motion control - hamstrung by dodgy tech

The controls simply don't work; Difficulty is unfairly brutal - and you can't fight back; You need Kinect; perfect posture; an office chair and a massive room

but either poor execution or just the fact the technology is not up to it yet. Using the Kinect to grab different handles in close proximity to each other is problematic at best. I was able to get about 1h of smooth operation before everything started going haywire and in that time I found that it...

Not really what my son expected, tried to play it, it was difficult to figure out. Didn't know what you were to do in the game.

Poor: Something went wrong somewhere along the line. The original idea might have promise, but in practice the game has failed. Threatens to be interesting sometimes, but rarely.

Mech Shooter (warning: Kinect bollocks required) Madman at the wheel. is a Kinect mech game that makes you think ‘this is going to be crap' and it is to begin with. You start to learn the "nuanced" controls and it seems a bit hard but manageable.

It has it's flaws but in the end, I enjoyed the game a lot. The game length isn't that long but you can replay missions after you beat it and change the fate for platoon members who may have died on your first play through on certain missions.

Only mech game I've played that really makes you feel like you are inside a mech or in this case, "Vertical Tank"; This is thanks to the whole Kinect features which you use when you are inside the VT.

Placement of some the interactive points with the VT are too close together; I found myself pressing the wrong button like switching on the lights when I wanted to pull the vent chain.

For those of us old enough to remember the first "next gen" console called the original Xbox, the name "Steel Battalion" is the stuff of lore. Nowadays you'll see Street Fighter games release on occasion with special peripheral controllers, or you'll see interesting props that extend the gameplay...