Nukezilla Review: Kinect Adventures (Xbox 360)

Have you ever wanted to play a videogame that will make you look completely ridiculous, tire you out rather quickly, and not respond in time with your movements?

Then do I have the game for you!

Kinect Adventures has you jumping and flailing limbs around to take part in minigames like a raft ride, obstacle course, and handball-type court, which get better with the inclusion of another sad soul. During said games (which range from somewhat enjoyable to aggravatingly bland — with 20,000 leaks, where you patch holes in an underwater box, being the surprise gem of the bunch) there is a one to two second lag from your actual movements to those on-screen, meaning you’ll either miss objectives completely or force yourself to awkwardly adapt. This makes the game a very poor show of the Kinect technology; unfortunate, since Adventures comes packed in with every Kinect. If Microsoft wants people to believe that their new piece of tech can hang with the big boys, they’ll have to do much better than this.

This review is Day 6 of the December Review Nukestravaganza.