It’s one of the more involved Kinect Sports experiences, requiring players to sprint and jump in place, but it never feels satisfying because there’s no depth to the gameplay. There’s ways to abuse any system for sure, but it’s impossible to expect any online community to ignore it because that’s just what they do.įinally, track and field is apt but not too fun. For some reason the system just can’t track it properly and instead of looking like an aging white guy dancing the game sends a volley of lightning fast punches to your face. Bowling works as you’d expect, tossing your hand forward launches the ball, but it’s just not fun because we’ve been here before.īoxing on the other hand is completely broken and Xbox Live is full of unstoppable jerks who abuse Kinect’s tracking ability by rolling their arms in front of their chest like they were doing the hustle. This takes all the fluff out of what could have been a bloated experience and gets down to what matters, which ultimately makes it more fun.īoth bowling and boxing are almost exact clones of their Wii Sports brothers but without the charm of being your first motion-game. Instead of trying to emulate the real thing Kinect Sports lets players experience the mental battle of getting the ball past an opponent who’s blocking your way. Rather than have players running on the spot to cross a field or performing some strange hand gesture to change players the game is soccer boiled down to the simplest of moments. Soccer also offers a fair amount of fun for the competition minded, but more importantly highlights some very clever game design. Though it’s only a single mini-game within a compilation, table tennis could easily become the Kinect experience of choice for traditional hardcore gamers who are willing to give it a shot. It lacks the hard-edged intensity a first-person shooter generally delivers, but at the same time offers a level of competition uncharacteristic of casual games.
Offering both split-screen and Xbox Live multiplayer the experience is both competitive and relaxing at the same time. Of the games included on the disc table tennis is by far a stand-out.
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