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 ]
UPDATE: Since I originally wrote this post, Amazon has updated their listing to say that miCoach by Adidas will be released on July 24, 2012. As always, if you pre-order from Amazon and the price drops (or rises) between now and the launch date, you’ll get the lower price. Be the first on line–this should be a good one! Happily, it looks like Adidas MiCoach is back on track, set [ Read More ]
UPDATE: 5/26/12 Happily, I was able to get all my points back. It felt like Microsoft had the whole process down to a science. That’s both a good thing and a bad thing. It’s good in the sense that they’re able to provide decent customer service instead of arguing with you back and forth as other companies do. But it’s bad when you consider that the reason they’ve gotten so [ 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.