Kinect Adventures

Xbox exclusive

Kinect Adventures! is a sports video game released by Microsoft Game Studios for the Xbox 360. Released in 2010, it is a collection of five adventure and sports minigames and was developed by Good Science Studio, a subsidiary of Microsoft Game Studios. The game utilizes the Kinect motion camera and was offered as a pack-in game with the console. It was officially unveiled at the 2010 Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles and went on to become the best selling game on the Xbox 360, selling 24 million units worldwide.

Released: 4 November 2010
Platforms: Xbox 360
Genres: Sports Adventure
Developers: Good Science Studio
Publishers: Microsoft Game Studios
Modes: Co-op Local multiplayer Multiplayer Single-player
Themes: Party

About

Kinect Adventures! is a 2010 sports video game developed by Good Science Studio and published by Microsoft Game Studios for the Xbox 360. It is a collection of five adventure and sports minigames that utilize the Kinect motion camera, and was offered as a pack-in game with the accessory. It was unveiled at E3 2010 and went on to become the best-selling game for the Xbox 360, as well as one of the top 50 best-selling games of all time, selling 24 million units worldwide. The game received mixed reviews.

Keywords

minigames
fitness
achievements
online
split-screen multiplayer
minigame collection
pack-in game
kinect support
games on demand
voice chat
pax prime 2010
avatar awards

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Gameplay

Kinect Adventures! uses full body motion to allow the player to engage in a variety of minigames, all of which feature jump-in, jump-out multiplayer play. Each minigame lasts about three minutes. While most of the minigames are co-operative in two player mode, Reflex Ridge is a competitive game.

The game also supports Xbox Live multiplayer. At many points during the game, Kinect's RGB camera would take photos, which were shown to the player(s) and saved to a storage device. com and downloaded to a computer or uploaded to social networking sites.

Reception

Kinect Adventures! received "mixed" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. Video game talk show Good Game's two presenters gave the game 6.5 and 6 out of 10, saying that it's a good demonstration of what the Kinect is capable of but lamented that there weren't more mini-games in the game, also stating that only 2 of the 5 mini-games were worth playing. In Japan, Famitsu gave it a score of three sevens and one nine for a total of 30 out of 40.

Being a pack-in game for Kinect, Kinect Adventures! has sold 24 million copies worldwide, making it the bestselling game for the Xbox 360.