14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft has announced the official launch date of Kinect in the United Kingdom and the rest of Europe as being the 10th of November 2010. It also revealed that football will be one of the events in Kinect Sports, alongside Javelin, Long Jump and Discus.
Europeans finally know when they will get the chance to buy Kinect, Microsoft's motion controller.
During Gamescom 2010, Microsoft unveiled that Kinect would launch in the Old Continent on the 10th of November, with the first lineup of games for the device coming on the same day or a bit later on.
Furthermore, Microsoft was happy to showcase Football in Kinect Sports for the many European fans of the sport. Famous footballer Jens Lehmann was Köln to help the company promote their hardware and software.
“Today we had Jens Lehmann join us to try football on Kinect Sports for the first time, showing how we’ve created a fun and engaging game for the living room, inviting families in Europe to jump off the sofa and into the world of controller free entertainment,” said Chris Lewis, the vice president of the Interactive Entertainment Business division of Microsoft Europe.
The game's Football sporting event involves simply moving to take control of the player who has the ball. The player needs to use only their body to the save as the keeper, pass to the defender, then midfielder, cross the ball in and then take control of the striker to hammer the ball into the top corner.
New track and field events have also been unveiled in the Kinect Sports portfolio, including discus, long jump and javelin. These sports will add to the current line up of beach volleyball, bowling, table tennis, boxing and other track and field events.
Microsoft has also announced two new game modes for Kinect Adventures, Space Adventure and the Yeti Living Statue. New additions to Kinectimals' roster of cute felines were also talked about by the company, with the lion and the jaguar cubs joining the tiger we got to meet two months ago at the Electronic Entertainment Expo.