[Yes! This is a kinect!]
Why did I buy one? To be honest an xbox live buddy and her YouTube video's made me decide that I wasn't going to be one of these lame asses who bad mouth something when I haven't even gave it ago, so the next day i popped down to my local GAME store and brought one along with dance central and zumba fitness the only two games I wanted on the kinect, after pulling a late shift from work I hurrayed back to test this baby out.
[Test One] - Living within a shared house didn't give me much option on where and when I was going to play the kinect so the first set of my testing happened in the bedroom with the space of 8ft length ways and 4ft width ways so there wasn't much room for moving about. First off I decided to give the face recognition a go to make it so much easier for signing in but that didn't go as well as i had hoped for my avatar just couldn't reach the marked squares due to my lack of space so I decided to try out dance central as i thought it wouldn't need much and I was right I was able to play most of the game until it got to the harder song where the moves were more advanced and needed more space but I was still happy with the fact that I could happily play the kinect within my room if need be.
[Test Two] - It was a Saturday morning so everyone was in bed or chilling in the kitchen so i decided to try out the more active games downstairs in the living room were there was more then enough space to do anything so I started with the face reconigtion and that went off without out a hitch my next action way to get a morning workout so I pulled in my partners mum and smacked zumba fitness in the disc drive and went happily away with a 20 minute workout the only problem I had was with the game as it would detect anything and the next thing you know your a guest and not your signed in profile after a few more workouts and a much more sweaty Korrawi I decided to move on to kinect adventures this time I was pulling in my partner for this one once again had no problems apart from we were tiring out easily and that the game took for ever to set up but was fun once it got going.
In my overall opinion about the kinect it's a good invention even though i haven't tried it out to the best of it's functions as I believe there isn't a game out there at the moment that pushes it to the max and even though many people still say it needs a huge amount of space to play I believe they are wrong the kinect can still be played with a reasonable amount of space as long as the game isn't so active but on the other hand game play is so much better when you have more space to play and move, what I would like to see someone do on the kinect is make a good survival horror game as i would love to see how that plays out but all I can do now is wait and see what Will come next.
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