Junk Fu Sometimes the best Xbox Fitness games don’t have to be the most expensive ones. Junk Fu is a surprisingly good workout game that is fun, addictive, can provide a great workout, and at 240 Microsoft points costs less than a cup of coffee at Starbucks. Rating by steve: 4.0 stars It’s funny, but for months now I’ve been reviewing $50-60 Kinect games, hoping to find one that [ Read More ]
Rhythm Party Captures the spirit of the original DDR Konami has gone “back to basics” with this Xbox Marketplace downloadable game and has produced a fun, simple, and effective-as-a-workout dance game that goes back to its roots of pattern matching vs. real dance steps. Rating by steve: 4.0 stars Continuing our review of Xbox Marketplace games that make for great (and cheap) workouts, I’ve decided to review Rhythm Party by [ Read More ]
While it’s been a bit quiet lately on the Kinect Fitness game front, that’s all going to change very quickly. In the latest rumors, possibly to be announced as soon as the E3 conference in a few weeks, Microsoft is preparing a new feature on the Xbox 360 dashboard and a new wireless tracking device that will measure heart rate. Granted EA Sports Active 2 already has such a device, [ Read More ]
Star Wars Kinect The Force is Strong with This One Years of suffering through movie tie-in games have gotten me weary of the genre. I’m happy to say that Star Wars Kinect breaks the mold and delivers a game that, despite its flaws, moves the Kinect forward as an active gaming system. Rating by steve: 4.0 stars I’ll admit, after playing every movie tie-in game from Ghostbusters on the Apple [ Read More ]
Happily, it looks like Adidas MiCoach is back on track, set to be launched in summer 2012. Those who have been following this game know that it was originally slated to be released earlier this year but it was unceremoniously pulled by its original publisher, THQ. This resulted in lawsuits between Adidas and THQ which happily have been resolved. It turns out that 505 Games will now be releasing Adidas [ Read More ]
Something is rotten in the state of Xbox Live. So, after reviewing Basketball Challenge, I browsed around Xbox Live and decided to start reviewing more downloadable Xbox Live games. I have a review of Junk Fu coming out in a few days, and I planned on purchasing more games that look like they have some exercise potential like Diabolical Pitch and Dance Party. I had an Xbox Live card with [ Read More ]
Kinect Sports Basketball Challenge Add-On Basketball for Kinect Sports 2 A worthwhile add-on for users of Kinect Sports 2 which adds variety to the game but unfortunately carries over a lot of the sins of its parent., Rating by steve: 4.0 stars I’m admittedly not a fan in general of downloadable content (DLC). In theory, it’s great for a publisher to be able to improve a game piece by piece [ Read More ]
PowerUp Heroes Your Kinect Avatar Gets Super Powers A fighting game that can provide decent fun and exercise, but which ultimately seems to fall short of the Kinect’s potential to provide immersive, virtual reality gameplay. Rating by steve: 3.5 stars I’ve been meaning to do a review of PowerUP Heroes by Ubisoft since it was released in October 2011. It has four out of five stars on Amazon, all of [ Read More ]
Just Dance 3 is half price at Best Buy right now. Jump on it while you can! Just Dance 3: Best Buy Exclusive Katy Perry Edition – Xbox 360
Hurry! For the next two hours and change (or whenever they sell out), Zumba Fitness Rush is on Amazon’s Gold Box. 10% gone already as of the time of this writing.
