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Turn your living room into a world-class stadium, bowling alley, soccer pitch or track-and-field arena. With "Kinect Sports" you're not only the star player, you are the controller - through the magic of Kinect for Xbox 360. See a ball? Kick it. Spike it. Even give it a little topspin. "Kinect Sports" features soccer, beach volleyball, bowling, table tennis, track and field, and boxing.
Simple, intuitive and instantly fun, "Kinect Sports" delivers the ultimate party experience - whether you are trying to outmaneuver the goalie to win the soccer match or cheering on your friends at ringside. The first full-body, controller-free sports game, "Kinect Sports" is so real, you will almost feel the wind in your hair as you fly over hurdles and the sand in your toes as you set, bump and spike your way to volleyball victory.
• Become a multisport athlete. "Kinect Sports" features six team-based and individual sports - soccer, beach volleyball, bowling, table tennis, track and field, and boxing - with many challenges for each experience. Getting into the game is as easy as stepping in front of your TV.
• Take one for the team. "Kinect Sports" includes a variety of fun game modes for solo, cooperative and competitive play with levels to encourage and challenge players of all ages and skill sets. Sports Party mode allows you to compete against a friend, rally a whole room full of players into teams, with everyone jumping in and out to catch a breath, or bring your team to victory.
• Live your sports star dreams. "Kinect Sports" puts your avatar in the spotlight and lets you experience what it is like to be a world-famous sports star. Bask in the glow of the paparazzi fervor with your teammates after a big victory and deck out your avatar with stylish rewards for your proudest gameplay feats.
Requirements:
• Xbox 360 Console
• Kinect Sensor
• 1mb Available Save Game Space
Features:
• Players: 1-4
• Co-Op: 2
• HDTV 720p/1080i/1080p
• In-game Dolby Digital
• User-Generated Content
• In-Game Avatar
XBox Live Features:
• Co-Op: 2
• Online Multiplayer: 2-4
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Review by: kiwireviewer-00
Dated: 12th of March, 2011
On my best days, I am still usually too busy to get out and do my "30 minutes a day" of minimum active time. The joys of a hefty workload and a knee that got blown out by a rogue paintball. So for me, something like this - where healthy activity need not be planned, but can be done at the drop of a hat whenever 5 minutes presents itself - seemed to be a godsend.
It didn't prove to be quite that miraculous, but it certainly did present me with an environment that didn't tolerate half-baked excuses for sitting around. I leave it to you, the reader, to decide if that's a good thing for you or not. 
The range of sports was impressive and comprehensive, and the skill levels started out very low - aimed more at kids and sloths like me I guess - but worked their way up through a series of medal-reward systems to stronger and more strenuous levels of activity.
With six classic sports to work your way through, there is bound to be a game for everyone's tastes. I admit that due to the limited playing space available to me during this test, the Volleyball was a bit of a dead-duck, as I kept moving out of the sensor's zone and it would pause everything while it bleated about me moving, and run through the tedious recalibration sequence. However the Soccer and Boxing proved to be great play, without the need for huge expanses of indoor real estate.
Overall, though I suspect the price is still right up in the "novelty factor" zone, and it will come down to something a little more acceptable as 'a fun, healthy pass time' and less like a 'virtual gym membership investment', I still found the game to be pretty good value for money, very replayable, and extremely engaging despite the primitive (by comparison to other XB360 games) graphics. I guess that either the sensor uses too much computing power, leaving little for the game graphics, or the games were rushed through quickly and the next generation of games will have that near-real quality we consumers have learned to expect.
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