Do you have Kinect?? What do you think?...

wilykit

I ordered it on Sunday night because my boyf really wants it (I do too but it makes me look like a good girlfriend!).

What do you think of it?

Phantom_Flan_Flinger

Let me just copy and paste a post I made last month.

Phantom_Flan_Flinger wrote: »

We've bought a Kinect for my son's Christmas. Obviously we had to test that it worked one day while he was at school last week.

The first thing is that you have to be a suitable distance from the Kinect so that it can see you head to toe. We had to move my son's bedroom around a bit to accomodate this.

We sat it on the desk the TV sits on, so it was effectively below the TV. It doesn't need to be on top of the TV.

During the set-up the Kinect moves its head up and down so that it can pick up your whole body. It basically turns you into a stick figure to track your movement.

I played a couple of the games on Kinect Adventures. I can't remember what they're called but the first involved trying to break through a wall with balls that you bounced off your body back to the wall. Any balls that went past your body were lost. What I did notice is that there's a slight delay from your movement to the movement on screen. This meant you had to slightly anticipate the balls reaching you.
The other game, the one where you're going down the river in the inflatable raft was much more fun. Moving side to side to steer the raft and jumping to make the raft leap at waterfalls to get coins (or stars, I can't remember). The Kinect also takes photos of you at opportune times, which it then shows you at the end of the level. They can be quite amusing and you can share these with your friends.

There aren't many games at the moment. Not surprisingly there's a few dance and fitness ones.

There is a driving one out there, but by all accounts it's not that great because as you've no controller, all you do is steer. The game brakes and accelerates for you.

I had fun with the Adventures game. It just depends whether they can make games to make it worthwhile for the price of the Kinect.

wilykit

thanks

i have looked on the internet and there's a few games coming out that sound really good, all we need to do is move our sofa back and we will have room