Sports Games

There is a lot of hope, mixed with curiosity, for the second generation of titles for Kinect after the first year of the exit device has sparked great enthusiasm. The motion-control to be levied on branded Microsoft could already start with Kinect Sports 2 and with the many rhythm games of this period (3 Just Dance, Dance Central 2), but the real killer-app for Kinect (especially at the level of exclusive) you can not see the horizon, even though Rabbits: Outside screen could become a new point of reference in the party-game.

The adorable bunny with protruding teeth and crooked eyes are in fact come with this new chapter in the sixth round in five years, but it is the first time I land on HD consoles after the little ones entertained on Wii and DS.

The mini-games available are over forty and Ubisoft has done everything possible to vary the exploitation of Kinect both physically, in both vocal support and augmented reality. We list them all would be too long, but there is really spoiled for choice. The games 'classical' built entirely with the game engine among others offer a competitive slap at the station (My friends docket), a swim in the shoes of a salmon, a tribute to Lemmings 2D divided into different levels, a variant of Pong with a colored ball, a run with fists in a shopping mall and a remake of Monsters vs. Aliens, where we must return to the sender (a huge Rabid) rabbits and giant robot vehicles that throws us all the time. In these and other mini-game stand out is the contagious sympathy of the rabbits with their looks lost and unintelligible exclamations, is the skillful use of Kinect. Jump, fall, reach, tilt your upper body and use your voice to control the movements of a Rabid (the game is already a cult masochistic) is the most diverse we can be expected in such a title, even if the answer movements is not always impeccable.

Fortunately, these mini-games do not require some kind of precision and the system of a collision between our on-screen alter ego and objects to hit leaves a little 'things as they are, but when you have to perform jumps or movements that require the delay between the body and that our action in the game is not trivial. The coveted correspondence "1:1" is still far, but as mentioned it is not a game of skill or dexterity, and even more significant delays can be resolved by performing the motion or anticipating slightly less rapidly as possible. This limit, however, is less evident in the mini-game with augmented reality.

Squeeze with your feet a rabbit coming out of the floor, move your hands on a keyboard, a virtual guitar (clear homage to Guitar Hero) and swing to launch green mucus are all actions that the late arrival of Kinect has noticed less. In any case, is the mini-game to more players to shine Rabbits: Outside of the screen? Leave aside the strenuous sports Kinect Sports 2 and 3 challenging choreography of Just Dance, is the classic party-pleasing game for the whole family, sometimes with very short but intense challenges that do not require special efforts and that they forget the pale semblance of tech-demo Kinect Adventures. Here longevity is much higher (some mini-games are divided into several levels to unlock) and diversions there are, as in a special mode where we can slap a Rabid lashed out at anything (including a cow and others found hilarious). Technically we are faced with a party-game animations where only the discrete bill in some mini-games are too woody and hasty, but given the average quality of this kind we can not complain.