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New Xbox 360 Game Puts Players Right Into Movies

by Tim Stevens on July 14, 2008 at 05:31 PM

Microsoft Puts Xbox 360 Gamers 'In the Movies'
Video games that get gamers off the couch are usually the most fun, especially when there are friends around to laugh at you (and, of course, to be laughed at in turn). Lately music games like 'Rock Band' and 'Guitar Hero' have turned non-seated gaming into an art form, and a new Xbox 360 game coming from Microsoft and Codemasters, called 'You're In the Movies,' could take it into the world of acting.

'The Movies' works with Microsoft's Xbox Live Vision camera and tasks gamers with competing in simple mini-games, like trying to swat a bunch of flies on-screen or run in place as quickly as possible. The games themselves aren't too exciting, but they're actually just a ploy to make you do silly motions on-screen. After a series of such challenges, the game takes the video it recorded of all the players and stitches it together into a short movie trailer. At today's press conference held at the annual E3 video games convention, we were shown an example made to look like a '50s monster movie complete with an overgrown iguana, with footage of you and your friends seamlessly integrated into it, no blue-screen required!

It looks like it could be a ton of fun for parties with dramatic-minded participants when it releases sometime this fall. Price wasn't stated, but expected it around the $60 mark including a Vision camera, which isn't a bad deal.

Tags: e3 2008, e3-2008, E32008, live vision camera, LiveVisionCamera, upcoming, xbox 360, Xbox360, youre in the movies, YoureInTheMovies

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