Goatmoose

Apparently I was a good boy in 2010.  After all other present opening had been completed, the parental Santa units bestowed me with one final gift.  The box was rectangular and not terribly heavy, and before it hit my hands I knew that inside was a Kinect.  I ravished its wrapping and instantly told my wife “thank you” for buying me some clean underwear for Christmas.

Since, I have accrued four of the Kinect’s launch titles in addition to Kinect Adventures, the game that comes bundled with the peripheral.  Over the next few days I’ll be doing some short, to-the-point reviews of each title individually.  The overall verdict: so far so good.

I had never used a Kinect or even seen one in person prior to receiving mine.  Overall, the device performs even better than I had hoped it would.  It is fine-tuned to my room, detects every movement, knows the difference between me and my wife when we step in front of it in any lighting, and has rendered me nearly incapacitated with tons of much-needed muscular soreness for the past week.  My play space gives me the ability to stand up to 15 feet away from it with about six feet of room on the sides – a perfect amount of room for two people to play easily, and for one person to have tons of gaming space.

Setup was simple, original configuration was very straightforward and the thing was functioning like aces within minutes of coming out of the box.

But enough about the Kinect itself – stick around for upcoming reviews of Kinect Adventures, Your Shape: Fitness Evolved, Dance Central, Kinectimals and Kinect Sports.