GamesDomain has posted an interview with Bungie PR guy Doug Zartman, talking about their upcoming third person action title Oni. The interview was conducted during the last hour of the last day at E3, and contains this quote that serves as a good introduction to the game:

Oni is the first 3rd-person game that will "do action right". The core idea behind Oni was to mix hand-to-hand combat (kicks, punches, throws) with gunplay in one unified interface. 3rd-person games are notorious for having controls that are either awkward or oversimplified, and for having action components that are essentially "rail" experiences. Oni changes that by using standard first-person action controls, that most gamers are familiar with, and uses the mouse buttons for punching and kicking when Konoko (the main character) is unarmed. Konoko's special martial arts moves are done with key combinations. For example, a player might hit the kick key once to kick forward, then hit it once while moving backward and jumping, to do a spinning backward kick in midair.