Before we start though lets get the negativity out of the way, playing on your own can be very boring and running as fast as you can in 100m sprint isn't as fun when you don't have a friend next to you, trying to beat your world record! If you leave the game screen and come back in on the other side of the screen, sometimes your avatar does't switch and you are stuck playing on someone else's avatar, but these issues can be avoided. Sometimes with certain events the Kinect camera can't read you properly, such as the Javelin, if you pull your arm to far back, almost behind your back its like the camera gets confused and tries to replace your arm with something that looks similar, so your avatar has this flapping upside down arm. The same kind of thing with the Bowling, you can't actually put both hands on the ball like the computer seems to or all kinds of crazy things happen!
However these are just little things that really don't effect the game overall. One thing however that is pretty annoying is the game freezing.. It doesn't seem to happen during and actual game which is good, but when loading sometimes it just freezes, its happened twice for me and I have heard about it all over the world, maybe a patch to fix this issue Microsoft? Of corse people are going to complain about the space issue, but honestly if you don't have at least 6ft of space and did not want to move anything around when you want to play Kinect you should have really investigated into Kinect more before you purchased.
I love how just like in Adventures and the Kinect hub, the second you walk infront of your screen you are recognized and signed in! It's amazing and just one less thing for you to worry about. As soon as the game loads you stand alone as your avatar in a stadium filled with people, I couldn't really understand why until I raised my arms and the crowed erupted with cheers! A silly ego booster indeed, but it was just another little feature that shows you what Kinect can do. You can chose between mini games or party events or just playing games generally, then you are able to chose whether you play online, against a computer, against a friend or with a friend, at first you start playing very basic computer difficulties but if you raise the difficulty to Pro or Champion it does become very challenging!
Like I mentioned before, playing with your friends is the way to do it, get a few buddies over with some beers and start that track and field, soon you will be sprinting for your life! Which gets very tiering very very fast, your windows will need to be opened I warn you now! Now I can't finish writing this without talking about my favorite game.. Table tennis.. Now I know that some people don't view this game like I do, but I find it ridiculously fun! When you start to understand how spinning the ball works you can really thrust yourself into the game, I start to take it very seriously when it gets to match point. When the smash ball opportunity comes, you feel that you have to jump and smash that ball as hard as you can, my after game photos certainly show how much effort I put in!
Well overall Kinect Sports hits 7/10. There are a few annoying issues with avatars freaking out, game freezing, but the game makes up for it with it's realistic feeling games. You truly feel like you are sprinting as fast as you can when you get on that track! It may feel strange at first not holding something in your hand for certain games, but it begins to feel very natural very fast!
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