You need to exaggerate your motions a bit, but that’s not hard when there’s no real bowling ball in your hand. It reads the twists in your wrist while you make a bowling motion in order to put spin on the ball. Once again it’s decently fun, but the small scope of the game holds it back from having any sort of real replay value.īowling is a game that we have seen time and time again in motion control compilations, and is probably the best showcase of the Xbox One’s Kinect capabilities. In a way, this makes Rock Climbing feel the most like an actual game where your decisions, actions and timing matter. To successfully make it to the top, you’ll have to dodge electrified hand holds, gusts of wind, and even other climbers that are trying to grab your ankles and throw you down. Here, you have to lift your hand up to grab handholds, and then pull it down to hoist up your body. Rock Climbing was probably my favorite game of the bunch.
That being said, the courses are decently fun and the water graphics are pretty damn impressive, and while it certainly doesn’t hold a candle to full games like Wave Race 64 or Jet Moto, this is still a halfway decent racing simulator. Sadly, this screwed up the motion control a bit. I’ve never been a fan of invisible steering wheel type motion controlled racing games, so I tried the game while holding a stick in my hand. However, trying to hold on to something that isn’t there is awkward. The controls here are very responsive, even if your arms will eventually get sore from being held out straight for so long. The controls are simple, squeeze your hand to squeeze the throttle, turn invisible handlebars left and right to turn your jet ski, lean to make sharper turns or flip in mid-air and that’s about it. The first and likely best of the games is Wake Racing, in which you hop on a jet-ski and try to burn through courses with the fastest time. Let’s go over each of Kinect Sports Rivals’ mini-games one by one.
Kinect Sports Rivals does show that our motion control tech is getting better, and our ability to design around it is getting better still, but despite some of the mini-games being genuinely fun this time around, Kinect Sports Rivals play value suffers, if only because of the tired mini-game compilation formula that it copies. All too often the motion controls don’t work and the games are simply too shallow to warrant continued playthroughs. Heck, it feels like we haven’t had a successful game like this since Wii Sports. The Kinect, the Move, and even the Wii U really haven’t been hitting it big with these games.
And that's no easy task.Oh look, it’s another motion controlled mini-game compilation. But first you need to earn a Captain's respect. Or if you're aggressive and ruthless, Viper Network is calling. The raucous and hearty align themselves with Wolf Clan, while the proud and honorable find comrades in Eagle Legion. They bind and divide the community and inject new life into the competition. And they all happen in the rolling ship's graveyard of the Abandoned Harbor, or the forbidding valleys and towers of the Stone Forest. Fans of the world's game will love a new Soccer, while anyone can get on the ball with Tennis and Bowling. Carve waves in Wake Racing, scale cliffs in Climbing, or take aim at Target Shooting. Kinect Sports Rivals re-imagines your favorite sports and delivers new ones not possible before. Now, small movements make big impacts in the most exhilarating sports ever.
Kinect Sports Rivals brings pure competition to life. Xbox One's all-new sensor technology reinvents motion game play through accurate and responsive tracking. Competition is always real, and always personal. With Xbox One's Real Vision and Shadow technologies your champion learns to play like you and competes on your behalf even when you're not around. The all-new unparalleled Kinect technology instantly scans and captures your likeness as a champion, so this game is all about you-how you look, how you act, how you compete. Take on your friends, rivals, and the entire world.Ĭompete against friends, rivals, and the entire world in the Kinect Sports Rivals World Championship for a chance to win the grand prize of $10,000 cash and a trip of a lifetime. Kinect Sports Rivals, built for the power of Xbox One, captures your likeness as a champion and drops you into a world of pure competition-with the most accurate and responsive game play ever. The official marketing text of Microsoft Kinect Sports Rivals, Xbox One Basic French as supplied by the manufacturer