LOS ANGELES -- Microsoft pushed Kinect hard at E3 Expo, showing a wide range of new games that use the camera-based Xbox controller.

On the show floor here, Wired.com tried a range of new Kinect games that Microsoft will release this year. These are our impressions.

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Grab a lightsaber and mow down droids! Use the Force to lift your enemies up and toss them aside! Kinect Star Wars is the first game that most people thought of when they saw the Wii for the first time, but Nintendo never got it done. Microsoft, however, has managed to get a saber-swinging, robot-flinging action game running on Kinect.

Though it didn't feel perfect, I think kids will absolutely love this game. It seemed pretty easy to play; just swinging my arms around pretty much laid waste to anything I felt like obliterating. It didn't feel especially accurate, but being placed in the middle of an authentic Star Wars battle does a lot to make one not really notice that.

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