Kinect Adventures!

The Kinect Adventures! came out with the camera for the Xbox 360 and explained why it was needed in the first place. The player stood in front of the TV, and his body became the controller: jumping, squatting and bending turned into movement along the game tracks. No joysticks - just steps, tilts and a hand. The main content is a set of tests where you need to dodge obstacles, accelerate a trolley along rails, swim in underwater caves and catch balls to score more points. There is also a second part of the program, which is more free: short competitions for a group, where participants compete with each other or complete stripes together. Reading movements seemed almost magical for its time, although the game forgave inaccuracies and helped the player. At the end of each race, photographs were shown that the camera took directly during the passage - they could be saved as a memory, which added homely warmth. Here it is worth noting the structure of the set: there are five tests, and each tests its own - balance, manual dexterity, footwork and the ability not to interfere with a partner. Stars are awarded for successful races, and for collected sets of stars new variants of the same tracks are opened. It’s more interesting to play with two people: in underwater caves and on rails you have to negotiate literally on the go. There is no serious test here, the physics is relative, and the depth is minimal. But the Kinect Adventures! remains an honest example of how a game can make you get up off the couch and laugh at your own jumps, and not at the jokes of the scriptwriters.