Kinect Adventures! Critic Reviews

The perfect game to be bundled with Kinect: funny and with a very good graphical side.

Overall I found the games quick, easy and quite enjoyable. The title gets everyone in the family involved, including my young son who especially loved River Rush and Rallyball. The only downfall of Kinect Adventures is that there are only five games to play which will unfortunately make the title repetitive over time.

Kinect Adventures may not be your best choice for Kinect fun, but considering its cost and various activities, you'll have fun with it while it lasts.

Kinect Adventures is a perfect game for in and out party-type play, but as the adventures become longer they can get tedious and exhausting – particularly Reflex Ridge's sadistic "squat, jump, sidestep, repeat" gameplay. That said, Kinect Adventures is sure to be a family hit as people gather for the holidays.

It shows off what the hardware is capable of, it's free (technically), and most importantly, it's actually a lot of fun. Unfortunately, it also highlights some of Kinect's weaknesses, namely the lag and occasional calibration issues.

While the individual minigames offer varying degrees of entertainment, they all nail the controls - or lack thereof - pretty well. There's definitely a bit of a learning curve, and the inherent limitations of the designed-for-the-living-room tech means lag issues occasionally pop up, but overall Adventures succeeds in effectively immersing you in its gamepad-free fun.

Great bursts of short-term, shallow fun.

Still, it's breezy, colourful presentation and general silliness make Kinect Adventures easy to like.

Kinect Adventures is a great introduction to Kinect. Don't think it's an easy start, because you have to work and sweat, otherwise you are doing something terribly wrong!

While Kinect Adventures lacks any long term substance, each game is a lot of fun with friends, exactly what Microsoft's Kinect is all about.

Like Wii Sports, you will soon tire of the activities on display. It'll remain a fun option to bust out at parties or when you have kids over, but it's not a deep experience - at least, not for those who don't want to leap around like crazy for hours and hours on end.

It might not hold your attention for too long, but it's not meant to.

This motion-based minigame collection is inconsistent, but it gives you a good excuse to start leaping and scrambling around with your new Kinect.

Kinect Adventures succeeds in providing a worthwhile tech demo, although unless you take a liking to two of the game's five activities, you'll most likely become bored after a few days.

At least it won't stink your shelves out.

While undoubtedly fun, Kinect Adventures does have a tendency to become tiresome due to the lack of variety in each game type.

Kinect Adventures is a good game for a party-playing experience, but its repetitive structure makes it less interesting that its concept may suggest.

As far as pack-in games go, it's a decent time waster if you've not picked up anything else to go along with your new toy, but I can't see this getting the endless amount of play time that something like Wii Sports, or even Sports Champion, seems to get.

Kinect Adventures is good enough fun for a couple of nights, but it's by no means the most exciting or novel use of the hardware at launch. For that, look to games like Dance Central or Kinectimals.

Kinect Adventures does a wonderful job at showing off the tech. It is a game that can be played for some quick solo fun, but the fast paced action is better enjoyed with a friend.