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FIFA 13 – Kinect Mini Preview

During our recent trip to the studio we sadly didn’t get the opportunity to have a play with the new Kinect functionality in FIFA 13, but we did get a chance to have a chat with Ian Jarvis, who’s the man charged with getting Kinect into the game.

Firstly, the main thing we need to clear up is something that has changed from the initial feature announcement. You will not be carded for swearing at the ref. From the conversations we had, we understand that it was tried, but it just didn’t work properly. Which player would the ref card?

Swearing can still influence the ref though. Excessive swearing can cause the referee to be stricter on your team or be more lenient on your opponents. It can also be mentioned in commentary and be used to trigger stories within Career Mode. After a decision is made, Kinect will be listening for a short period of time (we don’t know how long) and if it picks up on any unsavory language, it’ll trigger one or some of the events above.

Elsewhere it can be used to make tactical changes and subs without pausing, and when playing as a single player you can encourage team mates to shoot, make clearances and call for passes, amongst other things in Be A Pro. Ian assured us that there will be support for various accents, that each needed to be individually tested.

I think it’s safe to say that if you don’t already own Kinect, then you probably won’t be rushing out to buy one just to use for FIFA, but the additions are as good as they could be without giving too much of an advantage to Kinect users. If you do already own a Kinect, they sound useful enough and are going to be worth a look.

Here’s the official FIFA 13 Kinect Trailer

Kinect In Focus

  • Swearing at the referee will not result in yellow cards, instead it will effect referee strictness.
  • Comments Kinect picks up could be used to trigger Career Mode stories.
  • Voice commands can be used to change tactics, formations and make substitutions.
  • In Be A Pro you can use Kninect to call for passes or encourage team mates to clear the ball, tackle or shoot.
  • Kinect will support multiple regional dialects.
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  • Tom Mills

    @Keiran i doubt it’s that advanced.

  • Maicol

    Actually, I’m thinking of buying an Xbox + Kinect just for this, seeing as this won’t be on the PS3 ever.

  • David

    I can imagine when youre ahead by 3 goals so then you decide to start swearing at the ref. because you know you already have the match won really, lol. Anyway, might get the kinect this year to try these features on my xbox 360.

  • walks

    Can not see why they would of not allowed you to use your headset for this feature so non kinect users can benefit too. At least have a option to choose headset or kinect!

    If not through voice then it needs to be added to a control input for on the fly.

    As for the pause menu’s the main thing you pause it for is team management. So why not have it so the pause goes straight to team management, then when you want to change something else you back out to the other options or be allowed to browse the option pages with the back triggers so its smoother.

  • Tom Mills

    @walks I understand the voice recognition stuff is done within the sensor itself. Not on the console.

  • walks

    Oh right i don’t have xbox360 i just assumed that all audio would be picked up in the same way.

  • Tom Mills

    @walks apparently not. The recognition supposedly happens within the kinect device itself

  • Curwen43

    Sounds good but I usually play Xbox when me kids have gone to bed so I can’t be shouting/swearing at the Kinect. The headset should’ve been enabled too.
    The subs&formation audio changes sound good hopefully they’ll work without too many glitches

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