Does anyone else have Kinect and Kinect Adventures or is it just me?
I just got through playing KA online for the first time. Thought it was excellent. We did two different courses of Reflex Ridge. Thats this one:
and ended with the 3D breakout style game. It was competitive so it was much more physical and all the better for it.
After two courses of Reflex Ridge spent, jumping (over obstacles and to get a boost), ducking, hopping side to side etc, it got my pulse rate up a bit after doing it continually for half an hour. So cooled down with breakout which is much less physical in multiplayer than it is in single player.
Now that I've used Kinect a lot more, I can say it's worth getting it eventually. If you can afford it, you may as well get it now.
I was surprised that it understood me when I spoke to it. You don't have to do what they do at trade shows btw "Xbox....sign in", you just say "Xbox, sign in" like you are talking to anyone else and it does it. Even with my accent and even if I mumble. Though there was a time I said something and it did something else and another time where I was talking to someone in the room and the Xbox thought I was speaking to it and launched to the achievement screen.
Only real issue is that the camera seems to get confused if someone walks infront of you, even for a second. Then it has a hard time figure you out again, it seems.
I'm really hoping it doesn't become a "shovelware" magnet and that people don't waste money and time putting togethor things like Avatar Kinect, which is useless but will be helpful when they use that facial movement recognition in games. KA already has a simple version of it in its trophy room. Avatars mouth moves when you talk.