Tuesday, 8 May 2012
Review: Kinect Support for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Posted on 05:17 by Maria Scott
It seems like the perfect idea to integrate the voice command of the Kinect with The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim; as saying dragon shouts seemed like a match made in heaven. The end results however are occasionally useful, but overall may just add more frustration to your experience.
Saying dragon shouts can be very rewarding when you’re in the midst of battle and cry out “FUS RO DAH”, but the novelty of this quickly wears off and before long you’ll go back to using the buttons instead. Strangely enough it’s the commands that aren’t very exciting to use which actually prove to be the most useful; an example of this would be the quick save function. Before, you would have to go into the options and find the save button, then find a new save file, but now it’s as simple as saying ‘Quick Save’. The ‘Quick Items’ function also proves to be quite valuable as its use in conjunction with other phrases such as ‘Sort by Weight’ and ‘Sort by Value’ allow you to better sort through all the equipment a lot more easily.
The new map functionality is hit and miss for me. I love being able to see where I am on the map and where my current quest is, but not being able to say a place and then use voice commands to travel there is a mystery, it would have been a useful tool. Ally commands are another large aspect of this update, as you’re now able to tell them to wait, follow and attack, though whether they actually follow your commands is another matter. For instance I told my ally to ‘attack’ and then to ‘wait’, both commands being recognised, but for some reason ‘wait’ was ignored and this was on several occasions that I tried this.
Being able to equip weapons never worked with me, and in the end it frustrated me, it was a lot easier to just select what I wanted from the menu.
The idea of the Kinect function for Skyrim was to make it more streamlined and easier, but this is not the case, and unfortunately it proved to be frustrating for the most part.While inventory management and quick saving can be a very good thing, and the dragon shouts can be fun, I can’t see myself using the Kinect for Skyrim in a long long time.
The Kinect update for Skyrim is available for free as a title update. Bethesda has released a full commands list for the update.
Source: http://www.push-start.co.uk/all/reviews/review-kinect-support-for-the-elder-scrolls-v-skyrim/
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