Wanna go for an adventure? Then you've come to the right place.
Featuring 6 different variations of adventure games, including rally ball, a dodge ball styled game where you bounce a ball back and forth to hit wooden boxes and also hit different targets to get more balls to hit and make your wooden box bashing faster, is a fun game. Keep's
You're heart pumping and your senses tingling.
River rush, a game where you're floating down a river in a raft and collecting coins, jumping over rocks, cliffs, and even a pirate ship. This game really tests your skills and reaction time; you have to know when to move right or left, and when to time your jumps to collect as many coins as possible.
Reflex ridge will test your reaction time/reflexes, but in a more challenging way then river rush. You now have obstacles in your way that you must duck under, dodge from left and right and even jump over. You can gain yourself a speed boost by jumping over and over again, but watch out you might find yourself hitting all kinds of obstacles. This game will also test how fast you can beat it, there is a timer that you wont see till the end but make it fast enough and you will gain extra coins for an even higher score.
20,000 leaks is my personal favorite, setting you under water with all kinds of sea life, from normal fishes, puffer fish, and even a hammer shark. The basics of this game is reaction and reflexes like most of the Kinect Adventure games, these fish are out to drown you, and you must block the cracks they make in your under water tank so you wont drown to death. Some of the poses this game makes you do are really fun and hysterical when the Kinect cam takes a nice little snap shot of you.
Space Pop is a little weird at first, setting you in space where you can fly like a little butterfly to try and pop bubbles, since this game is set in space of course the gravity is turned off making it a little more challenging to get the gold medal. The premise of the game is simple, flap your arms and pop bubbles, lay your hands to the side to fall, and move left and right to pop more bubbles. Simple enough but it can be a little tedious when having to move frontward and backward to pop some of these bubbles.
Along side all these awesome adventure games is the snap shot feature that is included in all Kinect games. In some portions of the game where there's a lot of action (Don't hold that above my head if I'm wrong) the game will take snap shots of you playing to capture the funny poses you get stuck in. It's a funny and great way to have fun by embarrassing your friends or family. If that wasn't bad enough you can even post them on your facebook, if you don't want to be embarrassed you can always disable it in the options menu.
Last on the list is the adventure mode, where you play all these mini games and unlock living statues, some of these range from a gerbil and a shark, these living statues you earn are fun and enjoyable. You use your body to move them around and can even record your voice so they say a funny message. You can even upload these to the Kinect sharing website to let everyone in the world hear what you have to say.
The adventure mode is fun, you start off by playing on the basic difficulty, after you're done with basic you move on to intermediate and so forth. Beat each difficulty and really challenge yourself on the expert difficulties.
Online mode is a great way to play with your friends if you can't invite any over for some local multiplayer fun. Sadly I haven't been able to test this out yet, but when I do I will update the review.
I will add that it is recommended to have a big enough space to play these games when having more then one person playing.
To sum it all up, Kinect Adventures is a great starter game for your Kinect collection, it offers a bunch to do, but also does lack in more content forcing you to buy more Kinect games. All and all this is a great game that your friends and family will enjoy.
8.0
The Good: Fun adventure mode, good verity of games, online mode is a great addition to keep the replay value up, snap shot feature is funny, embarrassing your friends is mean but fun (hehe) almost all the mini games are awesome, living statues are hilarious and sharing the glory is even better.
The Bad: Space pop isn't too fun, make sure you have room to play with more then one person, lacks content forcing you to pay for more games.