8 Bad Video Games EVERYONE Played (And Beat!)

7. Kinect Star Wars

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The Xbox 360's motion controller peripheral Kinect was a pure sales juggernaut upon launch in 2010, shifting over 8 million units in just 60 days, making it the fastest selling consumer electronics device at the time.

Yet quality games for the hardware were few and far between, and so when a Star Wars-themed Kinect title launched roughly 18 months later, content-starved Kinect owners were all over it.

And it's easy to see why - the game's marketing played-up the prospect of using your own body as a controller to fling lightsabers around, pilot X-Wings, use the Force, and, er, dance?

Yet Kinect Star Wars was largely panned for being a shallow motion-sensing tech demo with some sleek branding slapped on it, but for Kinect owners desperate for something, anything, to play, that was basically good enough.

And so, the game topped the UK software charts for five consecutive weeks on launch, and given that the casual romp could be easily plowed through in around five hours, it's fair to say that most Kinect owners gagging for An Experience of any kind saw it through.

 
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