This isn't so much as a discussion topic as much as it is a short review. I got this 2 days ago for the Xbox 360/kinect while I was looking for a fitness game to get me motivated to do fitness regularly.
The good:
This is intended to compete with the fitness classes or home videos, not an actual gym with equipment. In that regard, I think it's a great product because it does the exercise counts and workout log for you, so if you're paper lazy it helps you see your progress. Compared to other kinect fitness games, I hear it's "harder", but I have no experience other than the 5 minute demos of Biggest Loser and YSFE.
The exercises are simple enough with good tutorials and motivating, if not repetitive, trainers. I really like the voice commands you can use, more games need to implement it.
The bad:
Kinect sensor issues: sometimes it just doesn't see stuff. sometimes it markes something as bad, but I have no idea what I'm doing wrong (am I going to fast, too slow, bad form??). The voice recognition can use a little tuning, but overall it's decent.
The tutorials show you a few moves before you have to do them to count as part of the workout. You can skip these, but it still takes some time between sets, thereby slowing my workout down. I need to snoop around for more options if i can do this, but trimming down the warmup, tutorials, and cooldowns by default would've been better.
What I want to see:
If I have trouble with doing an action, or have multiple mistakes, it'd be nice if it could re-enact the move on screen, and be able to rotate the ideal vs real, this way I can learn from it. This game also has a feature to use weights and resistance bands, but I'm not sure how they incorporate, should I buy heavy or light dumbells?? - searching the internet hasn't helped. I'll just have to try those exercises this weekend to get an idea of what will work for me.
I started the 30 day weight cut regimen and will hopefully see it to the end. At $50 (well $25 since I did it as part of a B1G1), if I stick with it I'll be happy with the money I spent.
As I said earlier, this is meant to be one of those fitness home videos, I get a gym membership in my grad program, so I will be augmenting the exercises with cardio and weight lifting.
The good:
This is intended to compete with the fitness classes or home videos, not an actual gym with equipment. In that regard, I think it's a great product because it does the exercise counts and workout log for you, so if you're paper lazy it helps you see your progress. Compared to other kinect fitness games, I hear it's "harder", but I have no experience other than the 5 minute demos of Biggest Loser and YSFE.
The exercises are simple enough with good tutorials and motivating, if not repetitive, trainers. I really like the voice commands you can use, more games need to implement it.
The bad:
Kinect sensor issues: sometimes it just doesn't see stuff. sometimes it markes something as bad, but I have no idea what I'm doing wrong (am I going to fast, too slow, bad form??). The voice recognition can use a little tuning, but overall it's decent.
The tutorials show you a few moves before you have to do them to count as part of the workout. You can skip these, but it still takes some time between sets, thereby slowing my workout down. I need to snoop around for more options if i can do this, but trimming down the warmup, tutorials, and cooldowns by default would've been better.
What I want to see:
If I have trouble with doing an action, or have multiple mistakes, it'd be nice if it could re-enact the move on screen, and be able to rotate the ideal vs real, this way I can learn from it. This game also has a feature to use weights and resistance bands, but I'm not sure how they incorporate, should I buy heavy or light dumbells?? - searching the internet hasn't helped. I'll just have to try those exercises this weekend to get an idea of what will work for me.
I started the 30 day weight cut regimen and will hopefully see it to the end. At $50 (well $25 since I did it as part of a B1G1), if I stick with it I'll be happy with the money I spent.
As I said earlier, this is meant to be one of those fitness home videos, I get a gym membership in my grad program, so I will be augmenting the exercises with cardio and weight lifting.
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