Kicking off a new revolution in video game technology, the Microsoft Xbox 360’s Kinect add-on – which will hit the stores November 18 - virtually transforms a gamer’s body into a games controller. 

Unlike another forthcoming motion-controller, the September 16-scheduled PlayStation Move, which uses the combination of a camera and a Wii-like wand controller to track players, the Microsoft Kinect is totally controller-free. Even the menu system of games on the Kinect is navigated by waving the gamer’s hand.

Giving the gamers the ability to interact with games by the way of waving their limbs, making hand gestures, and even using their voice, the Kinect add-on’s centerpiece, the $199-priced Kinect sensor, makes use of a camera to track the movements of the players.

At launch, the voice recognition feature of the Microsoft Kinect will support only British English, American English, Japanese and Mexican Spanish languages. However, as per a Eurogamer Spain report, the voice recognition feature will not be available in mainland Europe at the time of the launch of the Kinect.

The console will be region locked in mainland Europe and voice recognition feature will probably debut only in spring next year, when Microsoft is scheduled to update the Xbox 360 console.