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EA Sports Active 2.0 Kinect

Kinect Fan — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 00:13:31 +0000

EA Sports is at it again, bringing their top notch fitness video game franchise to the Xbox 360 Kinect. EA Sports Active 2.0 for Kinect will be a true 1:1 workout experience. While EA Sports Active 2.0 for other consoles will be better than the original for the Wii, the Kinect version will be able to truly track your body and give you real time feedback about how well you are doing the exercises.

Check out some of these cool features that EA Sports Active 2.0 for Kinect will feature:

Heart-rate monitor in the box. You’ll be able to wear this on your left forearm without needing to have any type of chest strap or other device. It will communicate directly with the Xbox 360 giving you your instant heart rate directly on the screen. You’ll be able to monitor how intense your workouts are, and optimize your workouts as time goes by.
In-depth online community. You’ll not only be able to track your own personal workout online with instantly-uploadable results, but you’ll also be able to join workout groups with your friends, and share your stats with others in order for increased accountability and bragging rights.
Over 70 exercises and activities. No worry about getting bored doing a workout with EA Sports Active, you’ll be able to try a ton of new activities and exercises, which takes a workout DVD or video to a whole new level of interactive and customization.
9-week Professionally Designed Workout Program. This program will feature a roadmap that will show you how you can get from where you are now with your fitness, to where you want to reach your goals. In 9 weeks you’ll be able to make some huge strides from it comes to exercise and fitness, and you’ll be guided along the whole way.
Additional Xbox Live Content. If the 70+ exercises mentioned above weren’t enough, you’ll be able to download even more activities and workouts via Xbox Live… this will help you to keep your workouts new, fresh, and give you more motivation to continue to reach your fitness goals.

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EA Sports Active 2

Price: $99.95

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UFC Trainer Kinect – Coming from THQ in 2011

Kinect Fan — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 17:57:02 +0000

(Picture from UFC Undisputed 2010)

At E3, THQ quietly announced that they would be releasing a new Kinect fitness game called UFC Trainer. UFC Trainer will take video game fitness to a new level, not only allowing you to actually train like a fighter and get real time feedback without having to join an MMA gym, but also to be able to get your video game thrills by dodging, ducking, punching, and kicking.

The game is set to be released on January 1, 2011, but THQ has also had delays on games set to be released on New Years in the past, but they’ve usually come out within a week or so after New Years.

I definitely think this will be an awesome video game fitness experience. Instead of just dancing around, or doing various regular exercises, this will take fitness and workouts to a whole new level. The THQ execs said that they do not want to release this game until it is flawless, running smoothly with no lag, and being the best fitness video game ever. That is a lot to live up to for UFC trainer, but I think it will be an awesome game.

Kinect Dance Games

Kinect Fan — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 18:21:25 +0000

One of the popular genres of Kinect games will definitely be Kinect dance games. They will take that Dance Dance Revolution did for gaming to a whole new level. You’ll not only be able to learn some new moves, but you’ll be able to show off those moves with friends or just trying to beat your own scores.

There are a few Kinect dancing games that are scheduled for release at or around the Kinect launch on November 4, 2010. Here is a run down of each of the Kinect games, and how they approach the dance genre differently.

Dance Central

Price: $59.99
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Dance Central is a game from Harmonix, the makers of the original Guitar Hero, and the makers of Rock Band. They teamed up with MTV Games to bring an awesome and fun dance game to the Kinect. Featuring music from some of today’s hottest artists in the pop, R&B and hip hop genres, you’ll be able to dance along with the professionally choreographed dance moves whether you’re a beginner or an expert at dancing. You’ll be able to learn the dance moves in one mode, while taking those moves to the masses in another mode. This game will have a lot of replay value because you’ll be able to continually learn new dance moves. With over 90 routines in the game, you definitely won’t get bored.

Dance Masters is brought to you by the makers of Dance Dance Revolution. They definitely know what it’s like to make a hot dancing video game, and Dance Masters is no exception. You’ll be doing various moves like turning, bows, stomps, poses, all mixed in with various hand motions. A few people got to try this game out while at E3 2010, and it got pretty good reviews. It was definitely fun, and a good workout according to those reviews.

Zumba Fitness Party will be another fun dance game. They don’t call it fitness, they call it a party! You’ll be able to dance to various Latin dance styles and music, combined with other hot styles of dance. This game definitely is more fitness focused than the others, but it’s still a great game to learn some dancing. There are many routines that you can try and master, and just when you have mastered those, you can get an even better workout by bumping the workout to a higher difficulty level.

Your Shape: Fitness Evolved Trailer for Kinect

Kinect Fan — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 22:16:17 +0000

Your Shape was a mildly popular game for the Nintendo Wii, because it used a sub-par camera. With Kinect, Ubisoft is able to take the Your Shape franchise to a new level. Hope you enjoy the Your Shape Kinect trailer.

MotionSports Kinect Trailer

Kinect Fan — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 19:22:51 +0000

Here is the trailer for MotionSports from Ubisoft, exclusively on Kinect.

Kinect Rez Trailer – “Child of Eden”

Kinect Fan — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 00:14:40 +0000

Rez Kinect … the sequel to the original Rez, is coming. The official name for it is Child of Eden, and it will utilize Kinect controls. if you were a fan of Rez, you will absolutely love this. Enjoy the Child of Eden Kinect Trailer!

Star Wars Kinect Game Trailer

Kinect Fan — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 20:14:56 +0000

Here is the Star Wars Kinect game trailer that was released at E3 2010.

You’ll be able to battle in the Star Wars universe with your light saber and hacking and slashing your enemies with your own motion controls.

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Yoga Kinect: One of the First Games?

Kinect Fan — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 21:24:39 +0000

I have previously talked about how popular I think Kinect exercise games and Kinect fitness games will be…

According to a leaked screenshot of a list of games being released in the fall, “Yoga Natal” was on that list. (Project Natal is now called Kinect)

If the marketing is done right, this game can be a great way to get many mothers wanting to buy Kinect, to make their yoga workouts even better. The problem with doing Yoga at home, is that you don’t always know if you are doing the poses and stretches properly, but with Kinect, you’ll be able to get real time feedback. Yoga games have been popular on the Nintendo Wii Fit, and they were even included on Wii Fit Plus.

The official Kinect release date is November 4th, 2010.

MTV Games and Kinect

Kinect Fan — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:10:43 +0000

UPDATE: MTV Games, alongside Harmonix, is releasing Dance Central, a dancing game for Kinect….

(old article below)

It has been confirmed that MTV Games is coming out with an offering for Project Natal, although there has been do indication as to which game it will be. Erin Hofto, the Xbox 360 Product Manager from Microsoft has said, “We’re actually really not sure what games will be available yet. EA, Ubisoft, MTV Games and our other major software partners have had the technology since June so it will be really interesting to see what they come up with.”

We already talked about EA Sports Active for Project Natal, but there really hasn’t been much talk about Ubisoft’s offering. It will be exciting to see exactly what games these major publishers will be coming up with to utilize this new technology.

Kinect Final Fantasy… Not Happening.

Kinect Fan — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:29:34 +0000

When Kinect first was announced, everyone began imagining their favorite video games and wondering if the next version of those games would feature motion controls. People have thought of Kinect fighting games, sports games, and other great ideas.

One extremely popular video game franchise is Final Fantasy, but there will not be a Kinect Final Fantasy. In an interview with CVG, Yoshinori Kitase, the producer of Final Fantasy XIII, said, “These new type of controllers are very interesting, but we’re not sure that people would like to spend up to 100 hours playing a conventional Final Fantasy title with these type of controllers. It could be too exhausting if you were always swinging a sword around for battles. So we will have to see what the future holds.”

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