Sunday, August 14, 2011

Upcoming Kinect Sports Games

Upcoming Sports Kinect Games

There are a few good upcoming sports kinect games for 2012.

Forza Motorsports 4 is a car racing game that is fantastic with the kinect controller and this has already made the top 10 kinect games for 2012.

Michael Phelps -Push Limit is a very interesting with a simulated swimming game,you get to compete against Michael Phelps in the pool.

Your Shape Fitness Evolved 2012 is the new sequel to Your Shape: Fitness Evolved, the #1 fitness game on Kinect. This game has also made it into the top 10 kinect games for 2012.

Kinect Sports 2 introduces six new sports - tennis, golf, American football, baseball, skiing and darts - with loads of challenges and activities for everyone to enjoy.

Grandslam Tennis 11 it will be the only videogame to feature the All England Lawn Tennis Club – home of The Championships, Wimbledon.

Xbox kinect have also bought out a kinect sports mat, this is 55" x 78" and you place it 4' from the Xbox 360 Kinect's camera. This is a great idea; it keeps you within the kinect sensors.

UFC Personal Trainer

“UFC Personal Trainer" has just been released, this is a mixed martial arts kinect fighting game that places players in the iconic mixed martial arts fighting cage, known as the octagon, with the most devastating MMA fighters to be found in the UFC.

The program features over 70 MMA exercises approved by the National Academy of Sports Medicine; 30 or 60-day goal presets; exercise/routine customization options; in-game advice and training by real UFC fitness experts as well as appearances by real UFC fighters; and exclusive Xbox 360 content including 4 bonus UFC fighter training partners and 9 extra training routines.

Michael Phelps - Push Limits

 Michael Phelps - Push The Limit, "a competitive sports journey" that sees you slipping into a speedo and diving into "one of the most realistic and intense sports simulations ever created." No, it really sees you -- you'll be doing this in front of a Kinect.

Phelps sniffs in amusement. Then they battle — a splashy affair where the computerized water looks reasonably wet and stats flash onto the screen to keep the challenger up to speed on the distance he's "swam," his heart rate and the quality of his strokes.

When it's over, Phelps pumps his first in victory and the frustrated skateboarder is in his living room, his T-shirt soaked with sweat, looking like he might want to consider dialing 911.

Forza Motorsports 4


Forza, is alot of fun. Live the most realistic racing experience ever as you take the wheel of more than 400 of the most-beloved cars on over 100 renowned real-world tracks and exotic road courses from around the globe. With breathtaking high-definition graphics and the most advanced vehicle performance modeling in a video game.

 Forza Motorsport 4 is going to be the "most expansive and vividly realistic automotive experience across any console.”, but with the new kinect controller it really is going to be very special,

Your Shape Fitness Evolved 2012

Your Shape Fitness Evolved 2012 is the new sequel to Your Shape: Fitness Evolved, the #1 fitness game on Kinect.

Exercise your way with a customizable, social and fun experience that delivers serious results. You get a personal trainer to help meet your set fitness goals or do you want to focus on a specific muscle group?
Your Shape provides an even wider array of activities to suit your tastes and fitness goals, including zen classes, Latin dance and boot camp.

Kinect Sports 2


Kinect Sports 2 introduces six new sports - tennis, golf, American football, baseball, skiing and darts - with loads of challenges and activities for everyone to enjoy.

There are three levels of difficulty, ranging from rookie to champion.

With new Achievements, exciting activities and unlockable avatar awards, every player of every skill will find something to challenge and enthrall them.

Kinect Tennis Games

Grandslam Tennis
EA Sports will bring tennis to life and allow players to experience the pressure and excitement of competing in the greatest theaters in the game, and it will be the only videogame to feature the All England Lawn Tennis Club – home of The Championships, Wimbledon. The all-new EA Sports tennis franchise will offer innovative ways to play, both as or against the greatest players from the past or present, letting you control the ball and work the court like you never have before in a tennis videogame

Kinect Sports Games

Kinect Sports Games



Kinect Sports:- Is the number one kinect game available, with a 9.2 rating form over 270 reviews. You can play soccer, beach volleyball, bowling, table tennis, track and field, and boxing. You can compete against yourself as an individual but have so much more fun when your friends and family join in. Kinect Sports 2 has just been released and it is as good as the first, with 6 new games.

Your Shape and Fitness Evolved :-
Your Shape Fitness Evolved, a revolutionary fitness game for Kinect for the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft. Your Shape’s proprietary Player Projection technology puts your body into the game for the ultimate experience. You’ll control the game intuitively with your voice and body as you create your desired fitness experience. Choose a personal trainer to help you meet your specific fitness goals, take a Yoga or Martial Arts class, or play fun, family-friendly mini-games.

EA Active Sports:- It gives a workout, and even corrects form when I am off. I have to be off form by a lot for it to trigger though. It isn't a fitness trainer that will guide you to hit unused small muscle groups, but it also won't be nagging every few seconds either.

Motion Sports:- This collection shows off Kinect at its purest, bringing six sports to life right in your living room. Run, jump, duck, dodge, and soar through over 40 challenges that put your physical skills to the test. You'll dodge defenders and race to the end zone in football, flash fancy footwork in soccer, and work that jab in boxing.

Zumba Fitness:- Find your rhythm and let go as Zumba instructors guide you through 30 routines that will work you into a sweat and make you forget you're even exercising. Featuring exclusive music and choreography, Zumba Fitness.

Deca Sports Freedom:- A little different form the other kinect sports games, you can choose from Tennis, Boxing, Figure Skating, Archery, Snowboard Cross, Mogul Skiing, Dodge Ball, Kendo, Beach Volleyball, and Paintball.

The Biggest Loser Ultimate Workout: The Ultimate Workout offers more than 125 exercise moves focused on upper body, lower body, cardio, yoga, and cardio boxing. Players can select from the exercise moves to create a custom fitness routine or choose from 10 pre-set fitness programs such as Belly Buster and Boot Camp.

Brunswick Pro Bowling is a bowling simulation game for Xbox 360 that utilizes the motion capture and control capabilities of the Xbox 360 Kinect motion control system. This game was released in February 2011, but the reviews have been pretty poor.
The result is addictive gameplay that is both realistic and entertaining for the whole family, with the extreme sensitivity of the Xbox 360 Kinect allowing players to roll their ball virtually any way that they could do so in a real bowling alley. Additional features include: detailed environments filled with interesting characters, multiple mode settings, character customization and even bumpers for kids, or others needing help staying out of the gutter

The Kinect Wipeout game mimics the absurd obstacle courses of its TV inspiration, and players will be challenged with working their way through the show's challenges by running, ducking and dodging.Failure is an inevitable and frequent outcome, and players will be treated to visuals of their inglorious digital destruction.

Players will be challenged by more than 30 obstacles, which can be undertaken in one shot or as individual events. Obstacles explicitly called out today include Big Balls and the Smack Wall Sweeper. The game will also include audio commentary from the show's hosts; John Anderson, John Henson, and Jill Wagner.