Kinect Sports

I just got finished playing all of the sports in Kinect Sports and here is my evaluation: 1. Track & Field: This area includes a variety of different activities that work well with the basic body movements the Kinect can control. These include running , jumping, and throwing things (javelins & discus). I think young and old would both have fun with this! This may actually be my favorite activity in this game. 2. Bowling: Not as much control as Wi Sports bowling--but it is actually feels more like bowling when you can just stick your hand out to pick up the ball and then swing your arm to bowl. No controller to hold on to or push buttons. Once again this is an activity that would appeal to both young and old. Personally, I still like the bowling in Wii Sports better because of the more precise control. 3. Boxing: I like this better than the Wii Sports Boxing--but there is still some lag time and I just don't get the feel that all my moves are translating accurately. Plus, like an earlier reveiwer indicated it seems like punching wildly is actually a winning approach in this game. I do like how you can just hold your arms up to block--this felt very natural. I'm waiting for the Kick Boxing version because when you kick your legs in this activity your avatar kicks its legs--but they don't seem to translate to "hits" in the game. 4. Beach Volleyball: This one will take some time to master. It can get a bit confusing because there are several different techniques involved--jumping, hitting, and blocking. If you're tall--make sure you don't have a ceiling fan above you--or at least make sure it's not on! 5. Table Tennis: Once again it was fun to play without a controller in my hand but I felt there were a few times when the intensity of my hits were not reflected in what actually happened on screen. For example, when an opportunity comes up for a "smash" the game announces it and then actually does it regardless of whether I swung harder or not. 6. Soccer: Fun and interesting. You don't have to run around the field yourself. Your player magically appears where the ball is kicked to. Simple body movements control your kicks and blocks. Gray directional lines on the screen show the directionally options when kicking and your location when blocking. Throughout the games the Kinect takes photos and short videos of your movements. These are played at the end of each game. The images are saved so you can share them with others. This feature will appeal to some and not to others. For example, I find the images of my son interesting and humorous--but I need to find out how to erase the images of me! Adding a second player was extremely easy. If I wanted to join my son all I had to do was step in front of the TV and the Kinect added me to the in-play game. The graphics are also much better than the Wii! Kinect Sports looked great on a 40" HDTV. We don't even play the Wii on this TV because of how bad it looks. Bottom line: If you have an XBOX already--adding the Kinect and Kinect Sports really adds a nice dimension to your video game experience. If you have young kids or older folks that have trouble remembering what buttons to push on a remote--it doesn't get any easier than the Kinect. P.S. It is a neat and strange sensation to be standing in front of your TV and the avatar on the screen is doing the same movements that you are. You can sway, move your arms and legs, and dance, and the avatar mimics it. This alone makes for good entertainment!

My (just turned) 7 year old daughter and I play this game on a nightly basis. The accuracy for this title is about as good as it currently gets with the Kinect. For my daughter, who is a complete non-gamer, she was able to pick up this title and run with it without hardly any direction, and although she highly anticipated the Kinectimals, and initially turned her nose up at this title, this has since been crowned her favorite in our library by a landslide. I am more of an avid gamer myself, but have found myself more driven to play these games with my daughter as they are great active entertainment, while offering far greater family fun than your typical "sit in a chair" FPS. At first use, I found this title to be slightly irritating in it's lack of recognition of who we were as players, as it would commonly swap us, or pick a generic player. This turned out to not be the fault of the game, but rather the fault of impatience (not waiting at the beginning for it to recognize us, and trying to just select our players) combined with the lack of going through the routines in the Kinect setup for recognizing us a few times for fine tuning. The bowling takes a little bit to get used to, but after you do, it's hard to go back to WII bowling where the physical position has to be calibrated manually. For kids, I could swear this game adjusts down for them, as my daughter is almost equally matched with me, and sometimes beats me even when I'm trying. She absolutely loves that, of course. The track and field, while some say is great, I actually found a bit awkward. Specifically with the hurdle jumping, the timing seemed a bit lagged and took the most time to get used to. The boxing is just "meh"... It seemed to not quite line up with what we were trying to do, and the lag really showed itself in this game, so it ended up in wildly throwing punches at the screen, and rarely going back to visit that particular game. Could it have been done better? Sure, just look at the block game in the Kinect Fitness title. This, however, does not lower my review of this game, because I really had little expectations for the boxing in the first place. The table tennis was exactly what you'd expect, and was entertaining to use you hand as a paddle while watching your avatar mimic your actions. The soccer was great, and very forgiving to the younger ones. My daughter was able to run around the room, and the sensor still picked up her movements. The simplicity of the coerced actions in this game made it very easy to pick up, while still allowing for a great deal of fun. The main attraction for both my daughter and myself was the volleyball. The amount of craziness that ensues from jumping up to spike a ball, going in for a block, or moving side to side while running into each other to try to get the ball was the icing on the cake for this title, and with this title as well, I believe it forgives kids quite a bit on their movement in this game. Initially we spent quite a few matches losing, as the challengers do not commonly miss, but we are semi-pro after repetitive nights of playing this game. Overall, this title has been a huge hit, and currently is the family favorite.

Item as described. Fast shipping. Recommended.

Das beste bowlen Spiel der Welt...ich habe alle konsolen schon durch ..es hat so viel Spass das es immer aufs neue wieder Spass macht.

É muito lento para carregar os mini jogos, mas para a tecnologia da época está bom

Es entretenido y muy pero que muy divertido, revivió mi Xbox 360 de nuevo

Great games so much fun to play