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My 2 month experience with the Kinect!!

 

As the Kinect is being launched tonight my Non-disclosure agreement ends


I received my Kinect at the end of August because I was accepted in to the Kinect Beta program, I have to say this thing is fun we got given 2 games to try out Kinect Sports and Joyride to download from the Kinect HUB (Is where you will be taken when you say XBOX Kinect from the Dashboard). The first version of Kinect Sports I downloaded had 5 sports they were Long jump, Javelin, Co-Op 100m Dash, Bowling and Soccer (Football) and later the second version had Volleyball. Table Tennis and Bowling all games were fun especially the when you played against another player my favourite was the Soccer (football) because I’m a big fan of the sport and plus I was diving around like an idiot trying to save the ball from going in the net which made great viewing on the video highlights when you finished a match. Joyride was tough at first because it was hard controlling the cars it didn’t responded to you very well when you were steering the cars but after a couple of update thanks to the feedback from the beta testers it worked very well. The battle mode was great when you can fire weapons at your opponents to do this just hold you left arm to the side to fire your weapon and my favourite part is where you can change the colour of your car all you do is find an object you want a colour of and hold up to the camera and it scans the object colour it was quite cool have my car the same colour as Mountain Dew.
 
 
A couple weeks later we were given a new game to download and this was Kinect  Adventures if you want to lose weight and get fit this is the game for you with all the moving about (and banging my head in to a wall) you will get tired. This was the most fun I had especially with another player when the other player jumps in (literally jumps in to join you) they can help you get to other higher areas on the River Rush (white-water dingy) level when you do a double jump first you jump then player jumps that pulls off a double jump. The other game modes were 20,000 leaks (you are in a glass cage and fish and shark smash the sides and you have to use your arm and legs to cover up the holes), RallyBall (Hit the ball and break the boxes and collect Pins), Reflex Ridge (You are on a track and you have to duck, jump and move out of the way of obstacles and the player with the most pins win) and Space Pop (You are floating in the air and have to pop all the bubbles Flap your hands to go higher)
 
That’s it for the games I tested, we also got to try out the Kinect enabled Zune and Sky Player (only for U.K version need sky subscription) all it is you can control with your hands and voice (XBOX Stop, XBOX Play etc) works well when you don’t want to use your controller. 
 
Video Kinect an application so you can chat to your friends on the XBOX or via MSN works very well especially if you move around your room and the Kinect tracks you.
 
Will the Kinect be a hit or a miss? I'll think it will be a hit as long it doesn't go down the same road as the Wii and release very poor 3rd party titles Microsoft need a good veto system on what games would get release for the Kinect and not the same rubbish that got released for the Wii.
 
Sorry if the post is short just got things to do :P

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