Same strengths and weaknesses as predecessor - only two sports useful

Good Kinect titles are on the Xbox One previously scarce. And to make it equal to say that does not change through Kinect Sports Rivals also. So the demo took another fun impression. Since Microsoft has just rausgepickt the best sport and packs them into a demo. Sly, because in the final Look for the fun unfortunately for a long time in vain.

Before you get to play at all, it needs a little calibration, created when Kinect an avatar to your own face. Or at least try, because the result goes like this. It does not look similar, but okay to me. I expected no digital copy of my person. Nevertheless, the result of some art. But I will not hold to create the game indeed an avatar, but to practice sport and to fabricate awkward movement in front of a camera.

I've been impressed from the demo I decided directly for Wake Racing. Here works the control really great as in the demo. One imagines his arms forward, doing so as if you had a handlebar in one hand and then travels by jet ski through the routes. Here you have to go along also in the curves with the upper body and can even by the move backwards or forwards create tricks. The few courses, however, are all somehow equal and the attention to detail you have somehow sinks in the sea. All routes are on an island, so of course almost all see this from the same.

After that I tried to rise me in the mountain. Also, this game is not really poorly done and also a highlight of the collection. You really have to grab the handles and pull up almost here. Alternating one pulls a hand upwards. And fast it runs smoothly and you climb mountains in record time. In between, you can grab enemies on foot and pull down. But the same can happen to one self. How do I find a highlight of the collection.

And after that it's actually already down (what a funny pun). It starts with tennis at, goes beyond football and listening to bowling. Then maybe Wii Bowling. But let's start at tennis because that's even worse than what Nintendo has then already taken when Wii Tennis. The figure automatically moves across the pitch, you even have to swing the arm just at the right moment to hit the ball. Here you can still make various movements to achieve a backspin, topspin or praise. Where the ball while flying - it has no effect. It flies where it was going up. Even with the attitude you have no control over.

It continues with bowling. There is really nothing. As on the Wii you can not determine the position of where to begin here. Instead, one tries to lower body does not move, so that the figure does not change the direction. Even the targets is based on chance. Everything else, even the speed of the ball, you have to find out for yourself. For me, the ball rolled mostly straight, no matter what weird hand contortions I did.

Then there's football. The movements should be clear, because everyone has seen football. But since you do not have a whole box home, the figures stand. Only the shooters wander back and forth and you have to wait for it right to shoot the ball from one person to another. At the end of waiting from the penalty spot and one can only hope that the ball moves into the goal. Precession is here but in short supply. The ball goes where he wants and when the opponent is off, you can watch his passports and then fend off the ball at the gate, which was pretty easy at the stupid AI.

Who then has not been enough, and of all the sports out of breath is (irony) and best not move wants to play target practice. We choose only the preferred hand and then shoots on different disks. This requires no motion. It sets up the arm on a plate and shot happens automatically. Some discs give more points than others. You can steal the plates of opponents and once one has filled his points tally, you can activate a laser that sets the enemy out of action. Took me now not impressed and quickly became, like so much boring when Kinect Sports Rivals.

So what remains a viable two sports and the rest goes from "ok" to "atrocious". The entertaining side quests with bonus objectives are repeated and bored me quickly. With the points you can buy new outfits or devices that you have to unlock previously with experience points. The store makes no sense to me, but he should be sure a motivational tool for players to ever have the feeling to achieve something if they are not asleep, because on the whole the game is not convinced and will quickly become boring. Absolutely disappointing when you look at the first Kinect Sports, and, considering what you get today.

Conclusion

Microsoft occurs a location where they previously had been with Kinect Sports Rivals. The game has the same mistakes as his predecessor and is not even doing better. And not only that: the control is not successful and in some sports it is really frustrating. From the supplied sports just two are useful and make conditionally short fun. For an afternoon or borrow from the video store once the game is quite nice, but not more.

Outrageous: The download version will cost a whopping 69.99 euros, while the disc version costs 54.94 euros on Amazon. Makes you wonder really, what herbs are smoked at Microsoft.

Who has an Xbox One should wait. I can not recommend the game at the time.