14 DAY TRIAL // One of the leaders of the team at People Can Fly that created Bulletstorm believes that the entertainment focus that Microsoft is trying to force onto its new Xbox One home console is misguided and that the new Kinect features are unimpressive.
Adrian Chmielarz, who is currently leading a new studio called The Astronauts, tells Eurogamer that, “I don’t want to talk to my TV, I don’t want to wave my hands in front of my TV, and I don’t want to Skype with a friend when I’m engaged in a game.”
During the Xbox One reveal event, Microsoft spent more than ten minutes showing how the new Kinect technology could be used to switch between various tasks while also communicating with friends.
Adrian Chmielarz does admit that he is interested in the heartbeat monitoring included in the motion tracking system, which might be used in video games.
He adds, “with all due respect to Mr. Spielberg, a Halo TV series is not the reason for me to buy a $400 box. I got way more excited when I saw Jonathan Blow on the PS4 stage. Not because of his game, but because of the message that Sony was sending this way.”
Microsoft offered limited information on the exact nature of the new Halo live action series, but fans are speculating that it will use an entirely new cast of characters in order to allow Steven Spielberg to tell his own story linked to the universe.
At the moment, the team at The Astronauts is working on a game called The Vanishing of Ethan Parker, which is set to mix elements from mystery titles and survival horror.
The game is not linked to any next-generation platform for now and The Astronauts will probably wait for both the PlayStation 4 and the Xbox One to launch before working on the new devices.