Kinect Adventures! | Xbox 360 | Kinect

About the Game

Kinect Adventures is the main launch game for Microsoft's Kinect peripheral as it comes packed in with the Kinect device, much like Wii Sports for the Nintendo Wii. The game offers five main mini-game challenges, largely geared towards showing off the device with casual, family-oriented gameplay.

Gameplay & Core Systems

It requires the peripheral to play with online gameplay and local games for up to two players, head-to-head or cooperatively. Online players can be friends or random players found online. Each game is essentially played by copying movement of the players and translating it onscreen through their Xbox 360 Avatars, through movement of the body and limbs, including crouching, jumping and movement in a 3-D space. It also incorporates voice chat features where players can voice unlocked characters and an option allows Kinect to snap pictures of players during gameplay (shown through an icon of a camera). Each game also features points earned through beating time challenges and collecting emblems, with various medals awarded depending on player performance.

Standout Features

• Includes the ability to ride along clouds and alternate paths in the air through trees.
• Players can also "fly" a bit by flapping their arms, hover by extending them, and fall down by putting them vertically along the body.
• There are four main adventure modes and players need to score at least a bronze medal in each challenge to progress.
• Players are trapped in a glass case under water.
• Fish, being the evil beings that they are, constantly attack the case which causes water to pour in.
• players are then forced to use every available appendage to block off the incoming streams of water.
• Here, players must move their bodies left and right and physically jump to steer and launch a raft down a river.
• Except unlike Breakout , players will likely not end the session panting and sweating.

Modes & Ways to Play

Next to the main adventure mode there is a Free Play and Timed game mode.

Player support includes Same/Split-Screen, Co-Op, Free-for-all / One-on-one (VS), and 2 Players.

Presentation & Atmosphere

Display support includes HDTV 720p, HDTV 1080i, and HDTV 1080p. Audio support includes Dolby Digital.