About the Game

Nike+ Kinect Training is an exergame that combines fitness with gaming elements similar to the contemporary adidas miCoach and it requires the Kinect peripheral to play. It is based on the Nike+ brand from the sports equipment manufacturer focusing on personalizing training and providing statistics. Players get to register a Nike+ account on the website in-game and can also link a Facebook profile to it. Through Kinect players's profile and movements are tracked, and they are shown on-screen as a green avatar.

Gameplay & Core Systems

They target strength, weight or cardio based on three difficulty levels and a workout length of 15, 30, 45 or 60 minutes. Split decisions for instance offers a Hole in the Wall -type of game where players has to move, duck and jump into holes in glass walls to prevent them from breaking when they come to the front of the screen. The challenge drills offer weekly challenges such as the aforementioned split decision, but also hardcore hurdles where you need to jump over a wooden plank, dodge incoming balls and kick back soccer balls in dodgeball, and more straightforward ones such as power push-up, leg matrix, and high knee sprint. Multiplayer is supported through an online workout with friends or with an option to take on the world. Players are guided by trainers that comment on progress and motivate.

Standout Features

• Nike: Players get to register a Nike+ account on the website in-game and can also link a Facebook profile to it.
• In the single-player personal training players can set up when to work out and join a 4-week program.
• Tests can be broken down into individual exercises through a history option and the personal fuel print can be compared online with the community based on gender and age.
• Next to the personal training, a quick workout session can be started outside of the program.
• Alex: In the options the program can be reset, a choice can be made between two trainers (Alex or Marie) and it is possible to switch the training environment.
• The program goal can also be defined as strong, lean, or toned.
• Through Kinect players's profile and movements are tracked, and they are shown on-screen as a green avatar.
• Moving on in the program cannot be forced and on days where players is not supposed to exercise, continuing the program becomes locked.

Modes & Ways to Play

Multiplayer is supported through an online workout with friends or with an option to take on the world.

Presentation & Atmosphere

In the options the program can be reset, a choice can be made between two trainers (Alex or Marie) and it is possible to switch the training environment. Multiplayer is supported through an online workout with friends or with an option to take on the world. Optionally it is possible to block all statistics from being shared with the world.