10 out of 34(29%)reviewers recommend this product.
Product Reviews
Overall rating
2/ 5
Gameplay
2/ 5
Graphics
4/ 5
Sound
3/ 5
Lasting Appeal
2/ 5
txnana
fromRowlett, TX
Unresponsive & a huge letdown
PostedJanuary 25, 2011
I thought when my grandson got upset & quit playing that he was just being impatient. I tried it & 45 mins later gave up!! Football is the worst - when you duck the character doesn’t duck which causes you to run into the object. When you stand back up your character jumps. You can't try another level or activity until you accomplish the first. Boxing - does not see all your puches. Soccer - It would not pick up some of my moves & took almost 5 mins for it to just see that I was placing the ball. Skiing was pretty good & my husband had pretty good luck with the Hang Gliding. Overall, this is a huge waste of money. This game should be recalled & let us get our money back!!
Fist of all, I am sorry that this review is so hard to read. This website doesn't let you use paragraphs, so bare with me. I was actually on the bar the other day at Walmart, looking at Kinect Sports or MotionSports. I knew the reviews had been better for Kinect Sports, but I really liked Skiing and Football for MotionSports. Eventually, I ended up picking Kinect Sports and was very pleased. So, a few weeks later i picked up MotionSports. Overall, I was very disapointed. Here I will review each of the six sports included: FOOTBALL: Really the main reason I purchased the game, it turned out to be a TOTAL FALIURE! The sensor just did not pick up my mvements at all, even when I recalibrated it and adjusted it. The sports are divided into mini-games, and the first for football was a jumping and ducking obstacles test. It would 9/10 times not read my ducks, and 5/10 would read jumps. It took me SO LONG to finish it, and since you have to be flawless, it is HARD. The rest of the football games were throw- aways. BOXING: This was the worst of them all. The Kinect would read NONE of my movements. I could do nothing but throw punches that wouldn't appear on screen. The easiest opponeants TROUNCED me. SOCCER: Third worst. You need a TON of room to play this, IF it reads your kicks. I couldn't get past the first mini-game (kicking a penalty shot) so it is bad. HANGGLIDING: This is where it starts to get better. Hangliding actually picked up my movements well, although the game is not too entertaining. You just stick your arms out and lean to move. It was kind of boring. HORSEBACK RIDING: Meh. This picked up about 2/3 of my movements (Not bad), but, like Hang gliding, not very entertaining. Lean to turn, flip imaginary reins to go faster. Not exciting. SKIING: I actually had fun with this one. It picks up all your movements, its fast and fun, and it couldn't be more realistic. The menus are incredibly hard to navigate thrugh, since it occasionaly (and randomly) decides not to pick up one of your arms. Very annoying. Graphics are the only thing that makes this game better than Kinect Sports. They are realistic and sleek, not cartoony. But honestly, that shouldn't matter. The music is apporiate for a sports title, if forgetable. The announcer at first makes good comments, but he only says maybe ten things, so I shut him off. Before this review is concluded, I need to say something that really bugs me abut this game. After you finish a sport, it takes your picture and puts it in a newspaper under a 'funny' healine. There is no way to skip this, so doing it over and over again, seeing the same headline over and over again, get a little repetetive. In conclusion, I would not reccomend this game unless you REALLY want to ski on the Kinect. Buy Kinect Sports instead.
Kinect MotionSports was a huge let down. I was a huge football fan, and when I bought the game, I was hoping to be able to actually play a game of football. But you can not play an actual game, just drills. Boxing was the only good game on MotionSports and it still was not as good as Kinect Sports' boxing, which I already had. Do not waste your money on this game.
