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Microsoft’s Kinect add-on for the Xbox 360 has been out for a while now. While it’s gotten a lot of attention from casual gamers and the family segment of the consumer population, the little device has gotten mostly cold shoulders from hardcore players.

The Kinect has been looked upon a “novelty” of sorts by serious gamers, in the same vein as the Nintendo Wii or Kinect’s smaller cousin, the Playstation Move. Yet the relatively smaller fan base isn’t stopping two mainstream developers from releasing third-person shooter games for the Kinect.

It seems that Ubisoft and Twisted Pixel are working on two shooting games, taking on decidedly different approaches for ramping up interest in the console add-on.

We're not exactly sure what were seeing here, but it looks awesome.

Announced in E3 2010, Ubisoft’s “Child of Eden” is a sci-fi shooter that uses “rhythm action” (their own words, not ours) to shoot at bad guys on the screen. The player’s main objective  is to save Project Lumi, from a computer virus attack. If that sounds familiar, it’s because Children of Eden is a  spiritual successor of sorts to “Rez”, a shooter-slash-musical game also released by Ubisoft. Both games are the brainchild of Tetsuya Mizuguchi, the seminal developer from Japan, and share the same psychedelic visuals and offbeat tunes to defeat the bad guys.

The game makes use of gestures and claps to change weapons, fire and activate special attack modes. We imagine that users of this system will be a cross between Tom Cruise in the “Minority Report” and a mad opera maestro.

Next up, “The Gunstringer” is Twisted Pixel’s comedic take on the Wild West. The game plays out as a stage production, and the player’s role is to serve as puppeteer. The titular Gunstringer is a skeletal cowboy puppet with a grudge against the outlaws who killed him.

Gunstringer gameplay

The game has ingenious control system. The left hand is used for movement, while the right hand controls aiming. For instance, you use your left hand to make the Gunstringer jump, while your right aims at targets. When you have aimed at up to six targets, flick your wrist up (like gun recoil) to fire six successive shots from your revolver.

“Child of Eden” is set to hit stores on June 14 , while “The Gunstringer” is scheduled for release by the end of the year.