Float in outer space. Experience the thrill of roaring rapids. Tackle mountaintop obstacle courses. And dive into the deep to explore a leaky underwater observatory — all from your living room. With Kinect Adventures, you are the controller as you jump, dodge and kick your way through exciting adventures set in a variety of exotic locations.
GenreAdventure Games
Platforms xbox360
DEVELOPER Good Science | PUBLISHER Codemasters | RELEASE DATE
Kinect Adventures Reviews xbox360
mondoxbox.com review
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game-boyz.co.uk review
Overall I found the games quick, easy and quite enjoyable. The title gets everyone in the family involved, including my young son who especially loved River Rush and Rallyball. The only downfall of Kinect Adventures is that there are only five games to play which will unfortunately make the title repetitive over time. Incorporating videos and p ictures for personal use or through www.kinectshare.com is a great way to spread the word about Kinect and to show off to your friends
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planetxbox360.com review
The five activities are fun to navigate through, especially the river rafting and the fast-moving platforms in Reflex Ridge. Your Avatar keeps up with all the in-game action like a champ, and the other characters are interesting, too. The music is lively and upbeat, and the sound effects do the trick. What can we say? For a free title, you could be worse off – like with a sports compilation that barely performs. Kinect Adventures may not be your best choice for Kinect fun, but considering its cost and various activities, you’ll have fun with it while it lasts.
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1up.com review
As a pack-in game, Kinect Adventures does a lot of things right: it shows off what the hardware is capable of, it’s free (technically), and most importantly, it’s actually a lot of fun. Unfortunately, it also highlights some of Kinect’s weaknesses, namely the lag and occasional calibration issues. Still, the game definitely works, in that your movements are translated in an almost one-to-one ratio, and it makes me all the more curious to see what developers come up with in the non-minigame variety.
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gameinformer.com review
My ankles ache from jumping. My sides hurt from laughing. And although my Xbox 360 continues to warn me that I should take a break, I can’t stop playing this game. Through a handful of excellently crafted minigames, Kinect Adventures shows how Microsoft’s controller-free approach to gaming can be fun for everyone. The thrills derived don’t just fall solely on the “look, I’m the controller!†gimmick. These minigames are legitimately good, and push players’ skills to the test. Using your hands to plug water leaks may not seem like entertainment, but Kinect Adventures turns this mundane action into an uproariously frantic exercise requiring speed, balance, and the ability to successfully navigate 3D space. This isn’t just a shallow pack-in game. Adventure mode is a long and enjoyable haul, free play offers its own set of medals and achievements, and the single player and cooperative experiences offer two different ways to play (single player being far more difficult and a greater workout). The only downfall to Kinect Adventures is its limited number of minigames.
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gamerlimit.com review
Kinect Adventures is a decent showcase of what the device can do. A few games feature a bit of lag, and others aren’t quite so fun, but there is no disputing that the Kinect has a ton of potential. Ultimately, Adventures does a great job of “wowing you†in terms of the technology, but hardcore gamers will want to wait a bit until there’s something a bit more substantial before dropping the rather sobering $150 on Kinect.
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nzgamer.com review
Like Wii Sports, you will soon tire of the activities on display. It’ll remain a fun option to bust out at parties or when you have kids over, but it’s not a deep experience — at least, not for those who don’t want to leap around like crazy for hours and hours on end. However, like Wii Sports, it’s all about hinting at potential and in this regard it’s hard to fault Kinect Adventures. I just hope that potential is realised, and not squandered on collection after collection of gimmicky, identical mini-games.
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extremegamer.ca review
Kinect Adventures’ is a topnotch showcase of what the Kinect unit is all about. While Microsoft could have gone the route of releasing ‘Kinect Sports’ as the software bundled with the new hardware, ‘Kinect Adventures’ takes us down a different route then its competitors, which is refreshing. While ‘Kinect Adventures’ lacks any long term substance, each game is a lot of fun with friends, exactly what Microsoft’s Kinect is all about.
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telegraph.co.uk review
Space Pop’s the only real stinker, though. While none of the other minigames are bastions of deep and meaningful video game experiences, they all show off Kinect’s full-body motion tracking to great effect. Every game can be played in side by side multiplayer, which is effortlessly hilarious. The problems start to come in as you get to the higher levels, however, as the action speeds up and Kinect struggles to keep pace. Lag becomes more noticeable, and games descend quickly into wild flailing. And they’re not the most cultured of tasks to begin with.
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xgn.nl review
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gamespot.com review
Kinect Adventures doesn’t push the graphical capabilities of the Xbox 360, but its bright, slightly cartoonish environments create an inviting setting for all your adventuring, and it is one in which your avatar looks right at home. The limited assortment of activities means Kinect Adventures isn’t likely to keep you entertained for hours on end, but some of these events are fun to come back to time and again. Kinect Adventures makes it easy to start having fun with your Kinect from the moment you get it set up, and it shows off what that eerie contraption that’s staring at you can do.
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gamesradar.com review
While the individual minigames offer varying degrees of entertainment, they all nail the controls – or lack thereof – pretty well. There’s definitely a bit of a learning curve, and the inherent limitations of the designed-for-the-living-room tech means lag issues occasionally pop up, but overall Adventures succeeds in effectively immersing you in its gamepad-free fun. It also does a decent job of dangling various goals, rewards and unlockables in front of you. Trophies, which mimic your movements and voice, are cool as are the embarrassing post-game photos of you stumbling about like a drunken monkey.
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oxm.co.uk review
Finally, there’s Space Pop – a game that asks you to move in all three dimensions to collide your Avatar with bubbles. Like the other games, it’s fun but shallow.
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3djuegos.com review
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gaming-age.com review
I think there’s enough here with Kinect Adventures to give you a pretty good idea of what the tech can do, but there are certainly some rough spots along the way. As far as pack-in games go, it’s a decent time waster if you’ve not picked up anything else to go along with your new toy, but I can’t see this getting the endless amount of play time that something like Wii Sports, or even Sports Champion, seems to get. I personally don’t see myself spending much more time on it past the point of this review, so you’ll definitely want to think twice before you pick up just a Kinect. This game won’t hold your interest for very long.
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spaziogames.it review
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vandal.net review
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strategyinformer.com review
Apart from coins and medals, there are also living statues available as rewards. These are very silly, allowing you to dance on the spot and record your voice, which is then translated into some sort of figure or animal, be it a hippo or a small team of dancers. Watching a hippo move awkwardly on the spot and shout ‘meeeeeeeh’ is pretty hilarious, although it does lose its appeal rather rapidly.
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ign.com review
Kinect Adventures is entertaining at first and works quite well, but the repetitive structure of the game is its greatest weakness. I was also troubled at how uninterested I was with most of the mini-games, having the most fun with a select few. Everything else served as a solid tech demo, but nothing more.
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computerandvideogames.com review
Throw in some annoyingly strong-armed cheerfulness, and these mini-games just aren’t enough to seduce those in ownership of a reasonable attention span – or a very British sense of diffidence.
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destructoid.com review
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videogamer.com review
Kinect Adventures’ set of five games was never designed to innovate, but it clearly fails to do the bare minimum that is necessary for mini-games to have a purpose. Mini-games are fun in small, pint-sized, easy-to-play quantities, and while Adventure succeeds in offering pocket-size entertainment the gameplay is nowhere near interesting enough and fails to capitalise on the novelty of Kinect. Movement is key to these games, and in this game it’s limited.
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