Kinect Reviews

[Brian_OS]

Got mine configured.. Loving the voice navigation and face recognition works great. I also got the family pack thing to get the old lady set up on Netflx



Haters keep hating!!!! Oh, and I wrote this on my Ipad double hate in the hizzy

[mgoblue]

Quote: Originally Posted by Flawless

I would probably bite if this was $99 after watching the Giant Bomb live stream today. Dance Central and Your Shape look like the clear winners. Kinect Sports looks okay with Bowling and Track and Field standing out, but the others sports didn't look so great. Most of the 3rd party stuff looks really bad, like Wii launch software bad.

Yeah, I gotta admit that I want it for the voice/hand commands, but there's not a game that's "must have" for me right now...I so want to make a purchase, but they didn't hook me enough...

[ExtremeGamer]

Quote: Originally Posted by Flawless

I would probably bite if this was $99 after watching the Giant Bomb live stream today. Dance Central and Your Shape look like the clear winners. Kinect Sports looks okay with Bowling and Track and Field standing out, but the others sports didn't look so great. Most of the 3rd party stuff looks really bad, like Wii launch software bad.

Dance Central is incredible. Harmonix hit this out of the park. I guess I expected DDR in a way. LOL I did Poker Face and it was pretty straight forward, so then I tried Crank That by Souja Boy, and it's the actual dance. Yeah, I had no prayer. Luckily there is a mode that slows it down for you to learn it.

So basically, every song on the disc has a different dance to it, which is VERY impressive.

Kinect Sports is awesome, I LOVE the bowling. Boxing wore me out. But volleyball is the winner here, trust me on that. Just the only downside, that one needs a lot of room, you literally are running all over your room to hit the ball.

My wife did Yourself Fitness and wow. It's easily the most impressive game to show off the technology, but I can see her getting frustrated with it as it's almost too strict.

My 2 year old son can do most of this stuff. I can tell you how much he loves this. His favorites are easily Kinectimals and Dance Central, just loves the dancing. It's quite fun playing with him and these games.

Anyone else have any questions, feel free to ask.

Oh yeah, George I sit about 8 feet away from my TV, but I have about 7 to 12 feet of room to do Kinect. I do have 2 videos from last night that the game recorded and are on KinectShare.com that I would post here, but don't feel like being THAT embarrassed. LOL Luckily Dance Central doesn't upload it just stores them on the game, as THOSE are embarrassing. My wife laughed for 10 minutes about my Poke Face video.

[CaptainZombie]

Quote: Originally Posted by ExtremeGamer

Dance Central is incredible. Harmonix hit this out of the park. I guess I expected DDR in a way. LOL I did Poker Face and it was pretty straight forward, so then I tried Crank That by Souja Boy, and it's the actual dance. Yeah, I had no prayer. Luckily there is a mode that slows it down for you to learn it. So basically, every song on the disc has a different dance to it, which is VERY impressive. Kinect Sports is awesome, I LOVE the bowling. Boxing wore me out. But volleyball is the winner here, trust me on that. Just the only downside, that one needs a lot of room, you literally are running all over your room to hit the ball. My wife did Yourself Fitness and wow. It's easily the most impressive game to show off the technology, but I can see her getting frustrated with it as it's almost too strict. My 2 year old son can do most of this stuff. I can tell you how much he loves this. His favorites are easily Kinectimals and Dance Central, just loves the dancing. It's quite fun playing with him and these games. Anyone else have any questions, feel free to ask. Oh yeah, George I sit about 8 feet away from my TV, but I have about 7 to 12 feet of room to do Kinect. I do have 2 videos from last night that the game recorded and are on KinectShare.com that I would post here, but don't feel like being THAT embarrassed. LOL Luckily Dance Central doesn't upload it just stores them on the game, as THOSE are embarrassing. My wife laughed for 10 minutes about my Poke Face video.

Thanks Scott for the info. I also have a couch to the left of me, which I can't move so that totally limits being able to move from left to right. I'll stick with Move for now and wait to see how things transpire with Kinect. Move hasn't impressed me much from a software standpoint.....but the hardware is incredible and really puts the Wii to shame imo with the tracking. I guess all 3 companies offer a unique enough experience across the board, but I can see where if someone doesn't care for the Nintendo exclusives ditching the Wii in a heartbeat for either Move or Kinect makes a ton of sense.

[ExtremeGamer]

Not sure why I'm posting this..LOL

Don't mind the clutter behind me with my kids toys, that's my family room, it's 18X25 and the TV is in the back right corner. I'm about 7 feet away in this video, but could easily move back more if I needed to, but as you can see I don't. The camera lenses does kinda give a fishbowl look to the video though, as the room is much bigger than it looks here. Just to give you an idea on spacing.

[The GIGGAS]

Quote: Originally Posted by ExtremeGamer

Not sure why I'm posting this..LOL Don't mind the clutter behind me with my kids toys, that's my family room, it's 18X25 and the TV is in the back right corner. I'm about 7 feet away in this video, but could easily move back more if I needed to, but as you can see I don't. The camera lenses does kinda give a fishbowl look to the video though, as the room is much bigger than it looks here. Just to give you an idea on spacing.

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[ExtremeGamer]

Quote: Originally Posted by The GIGGAS

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Ahh, didn't think about that, probably due to privacy settings. LOL

Well, if you're my facebook friend it's in my feed (as I'm getting made fun of left and right for it right now LOL).

Sorry, I tried.

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