Sesame Street: Once Upon a Monster A fair game for kids that falls short of the lofty standards that the characters on which it is based set. At first glance, it seems like a great idea: have Elmo and Cookie Monster teach kids some life lessons while wearing them out in front of the TV. Unfortunately, the magic of the TV hardly translates to this title of cheap cartoony graphics [ Read More ]
Wipeout: In the Zone A mostly accurate but disappointing simulation of the TV show. Wipeout: In the Zone features the same obstacle courses you’ll see in the TV show. However, its motion control accuracy with the Kinect is abysmal, which will result in a lot of trial and error before you get it right. It’s entertaining for a little while to see your character wipe out in a hundred ways, [ Read More ]
When you pre-order Dance Central 2 at Amazon now, you not only get $10 credit, you also get 400 Microsoft points, which can be applied towards transferring original Dance Central songs to Dance Central 2. It applies retroactively to all previous pre-orders as well. Unclear whether this is an Amazon Only deal or will be applied to preorders at other vendors. UPDATE: Looks like this deal is available for people [ Read More ]
Sonic Free Riders for Kinect An uninspired skateboarding game that may have appeal to avid Sonic or boarding fans. Sonic Free Riders, along with Adrenaline Misfits, is an early foray into skateboarding using the Kinect. While not a bad early effort, the game falls short in its extremely lengthy learning curve that most will not have the patience to master. Once you do master it, however, Sonic fans will appreciate [ Read More ]
As regular readers of this blog may know, I’ve been very excited about the Nyko Zoom. This is a rather clever attachment to the Xbox Kinect that effectively expands your Kinect play area. If you live in a small room or apartment like me, you’ve no doubt been frustrated when you pop in a game and everything works perfectly EXCEPT that the system keeps telling you to step back and [ Read More ]
Looks like NewEgg has upped the ante on pre-order savings on some great upcoming Kinect games. From now until the end of the day on September 14, NewEgg is offering Dance Central 2, Kinect Sports 2, and Disneyland Adventures each for only $38 after coupon code (and yes, you can stack all three for a total of $36 in savings). For those doing the math, that’s $1.99 less than Amazon’s [ Read More ]
Amazon has a great deal for what’s sure to be one of the hotter Xbox fitness games this Christmas. When you pre-order Dance Central 2 or Kinect Sports Season Two for the Xbox you’ll get a $10 credit for a future order. Dance Central 2 looks like it’ll be a huge improvement over the original, which was already an excellent game. It’ll feature new multiplayer features where dancers can join [ Read More ]
Fighters Uncaged Not a great display of the Kinect’s capabilities Fighters Uncaged was a first generation fighting game from Ubisoft, released at the same time that the Kinect was launched. Like other third-party games released that time, this one was kludgey and poorly executed. One day there will be a great fighting game for the Kinect, but this isn’t it. Rating by steve: 2.5 stars During the quiet days of [ Read More ]
Seems that eBay’s Daily Deals are going video game happy lately. Today, they have 4000 Microsoft Points available for only $39.99, or 20% less than what you’d usually pay. You can use the points to purchase things like great fitness games add-ons such as the Kinect Sports fitness add-on or add-ons for Your Shape. As with all these eBay deals, jump on it quick before it’s gone!
Every now and again a great deal on a Xbox 360 comes along, just to remind me and every Xbox 360 owner of what suckers we were to pay full retail 🙂 But seriously, if you’ve been reading the blog and have been on the fence about whether to get an Xbox for fitness, there’s no better time than now to jump, especially given all the great new games that [ Read More ]