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Call me a stickler for punishment if you like, but I've been standing up for Kinect since the launch.
There are games like Child of Eden and, yes, even Kinect Sports that show the system can be a whole bunch of fun and well worth considering. Even Disneyland Adventure and Once Upon a Monster allow you legitimately have fun while playing Xbox with your kids.
But then Ubisoft came and trashed my party. It wasn't that I had never seen a bad game on Kinect before, just the name of Fighters Uncaged sends shivers down my spine, but a bad mini-game collection from the Rabbids? I didn't spot that one coming.
Now you may think I'm being cynical here, but I really do have love for those messed-up bunnies. Ever since they turned the fortunes of old gaming icon Rayman upside down (and, to some extent, Ubisoft too) they've been the subject of some groovy mini-gaming titles on the Wii. The Rabbids collection stands proudly in my line up of Wii games that get played when the party mood is fully in swing, so I was expecting a tour-de-force of Kinect partying when the disc landed on my doormat.
Even the intro promised more. Mad as ever, there was no way of making sense of the plot that involved crossing Rabbids with cows and then thousands of the blighters popping up all over a huge sprawling city. But that didn't matter, because the sooner the CGI was over the sooner I could get going on the games.
There are several options available from the menu screen, but there might as well be a million because the menu itself is broken enough to make you want to give up before you begin. I thought we'd got over the whole broken menu issue last year, but it seems Rabbids has it in spades. Once you do get around the menu, though, you can choose to play solo, or party games or to have a Rabbid mess around in your room.
The games are very basic and are all based around very simple gestures. This in itself isn't a bad thing...IF THEY WORKED! Coming out of my 5th game in a row where the software didn't register my movements or those of my daughter standing next to me was enough to send her packing. The rest I had to do alone, without backup.
Swiping, nudging, pumping, licking, they're all here. Yes, I said licking. That's right, with tongues. One thing Rabbids is sure to have you doing is looking like a complete idiot, and it knows it. That's why it secretly takes pictures of you which it proudly displays at the end, as if saying 'look, you know this game is crap, but we still got you shoving your leg up in some stupid pose, didn't we? More fool you player.'
It's less like a celebration of your gaming prowess and more like an uncle taking photos of you during a drunken family party and then showing them to all your friends the day after.
Only one game stands out as being any good. It's a take on lemmings where you need to get the Rabbids to the exit using hands to hold up bridges or work conveyor belts. It's not good enough to save the overall game, though.
In fact nothing shows up the lack of control this game gives Kinect more than the 'fun' mode that allows a single Rabbid access to your room. The idea is to hit the creature as it tries to goad you. Doing so involves a feat of skill in moving around your three dimensional room while watching the two dimensional TV picture. It glitches and it misses your reactions, even with your whole body actually showing up on screen, but at least when you do get to punch the damn Rabbid, you feel some sense of relief, even if expecting it to die while my hands were placed around its throat was a tad too much.
So Ubisoft killed my love of Rabbids with one game. It's less Rabbids: Alive and Kicking, and more Dead on Delivery, If you do get a Kinect for Christmas, please don't buy this game. Watching grandma try Kinect Adventures after a few sherries is far more entertaining.
2/10
There are games like Child of Eden and, yes, even Kinect Sports that show the system can be a whole bunch of fun and well worth considering. Even Disneyland Adventure and Once Upon a Monster allow you legitimately have fun while playing Xbox with your kids.
But then Ubisoft came and trashed my party. It wasn't that I had never seen a bad game on Kinect before, just the name of Fighters Uncaged sends shivers down my spine, but a bad mini-game collection from the Rabbids? I didn't spot that one coming.
Now you may think I'm being cynical here, but I really do have love for those messed-up bunnies. Ever since they turned the fortunes of old gaming icon Rayman upside down (and, to some extent, Ubisoft too) they've been the subject of some groovy mini-gaming titles on the Wii. The Rabbids collection stands proudly in my line up of Wii games that get played when the party mood is fully in swing, so I was expecting a tour-de-force of Kinect partying when the disc landed on my doormat.
Even the intro promised more. Mad as ever, there was no way of making sense of the plot that involved crossing Rabbids with cows and then thousands of the blighters popping up all over a huge sprawling city. But that didn't matter, because the sooner the CGI was over the sooner I could get going on the games.
There are several options available from the menu screen, but there might as well be a million because the menu itself is broken enough to make you want to give up before you begin. I thought we'd got over the whole broken menu issue last year, but it seems Rabbids has it in spades. Once you do get around the menu, though, you can choose to play solo, or party games or to have a Rabbid mess around in your room.
The games are very basic and are all based around very simple gestures. This in itself isn't a bad thing...IF THEY WORKED! Coming out of my 5th game in a row where the software didn't register my movements or those of my daughter standing next to me was enough to send her packing. The rest I had to do alone, without backup.
Swiping, nudging, pumping, licking, they're all here. Yes, I said licking. That's right, with tongues. One thing Rabbids is sure to have you doing is looking like a complete idiot, and it knows it. That's why it secretly takes pictures of you which it proudly displays at the end, as if saying 'look, you know this game is crap, but we still got you shoving your leg up in some stupid pose, didn't we? More fool you player.'
It's less like a celebration of your gaming prowess and more like an uncle taking photos of you during a drunken family party and then showing them to all your friends the day after.
Only one game stands out as being any good. It's a take on lemmings where you need to get the Rabbids to the exit using hands to hold up bridges or work conveyor belts. It's not good enough to save the overall game, though.
In fact nothing shows up the lack of control this game gives Kinect more than the 'fun' mode that allows a single Rabbid access to your room. The idea is to hit the creature as it tries to goad you. Doing so involves a feat of skill in moving around your three dimensional room while watching the two dimensional TV picture. It glitches and it misses your reactions, even with your whole body actually showing up on screen, but at least when you do get to punch the damn Rabbid, you feel some sense of relief, even if expecting it to die while my hands were placed around its throat was a tad too much.
So Ubisoft killed my love of Rabbids with one game. It's less Rabbids: Alive and Kicking, and more Dead on Delivery, If you do get a Kinect for Christmas, please don't buy this game. Watching grandma try Kinect Adventures after a few sherries is far more entertaining.
2/10
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Call me a stickler for punishment if you like, but I've been standing up for Kinect since the launch.
There are games like Child of Eden and, yes, even Kinect Sports that show the system can be a whole bunch of fun and well worth considering. Even Disneyland Adventure and Once Upon a Monster allow you legitimately have fun while playing Xbox with your kids.
But then Ubisoft came and trashed my party. It wasn't that I had never seen a bad game on Kinect before, just the name of Fighters Uncaged sends shivers down my spine, but a bad mini-game collection from the Rabbids? I didn't spot that one coming.
Now you may think I'm being cynical here, but I really do have love for those messed-up bunnies. Ever since they turned the fortunes of old gaming icon Rayman upside down (and, to some extent, Ubisoft too) they've been the subject of some groovy mini-gaming titles on the Wii. The Rabbids collection stands proudly in my line up of Wii games that get played when the party mood is fully in swing, so I was expecting a tour-de-force of Kinect partying when the disc landed on my doormat.
Even the intro promised more. Mad as ever, there was no way of making sense of the plot that involved crossing Rabbids with cows and then thousands of the blighters popping up all over a huge sprawling city. But that didn't matter, because the sooner the CGI was over the sooner I could get going on the games.
There are several options available from the menu screen, but there might as well be a million because the menu itself is broken enough to make you want to give up before you begin. I thought we'd got over the whole broken menu issue last year, but it seems Rabbids has it in spades. Once you do get around the menu, though, you can choose to play solo, or party games or to have a Rabbid mess around in your room.
The games are very basic and are all based around very simple gestures. This in itself isn't a bad thing...IF THEY WORKED! Coming out of my 5th game in a row where the software didn't register my movements or those of my daughter standing next to me was enough to send her packing. The rest I had to do alone, without backup.
Swiping, nudging, pumping, licking, they're all here. Yes, I said licking. That's right, with tongues. One thing Rabbids is sure to have you doing is looking like a complete idiot, and it knows it. That's why it secretly takes pictures of you which it proudly displays at the end, as if saying 'look, you know this game is crap, but we still got you shoving your leg up in some stupid pose, didn't we? More fool you player.'
It's less like a celebration of your gaming prowess and more like an uncle taking photos of you during a drunken family party and then showing them to all your friends the day after.
Only one game stands out as being any good. It's a take on lemmings where you need to get the Rabbids to the exit using hands to hold up bridges or work conveyor belts. It's not good enough to save the overall game, though.
In fact nothing shows up the lack of control this game gives Kinect more than the 'fun' mode that allows a single Rabbid access to your room. The idea is to hit the creature as it tries to goad you. Doing so involves a feat of skill in moving around your three dimensional room while watching the two dimensional TV picture. It glitches and it misses your reactions, even with your whole body actually showing up on screen, but at least when you do get to punch the damn Rabbid, you feel some sense of relief, even if expecting it to die while my hands were placed around its throat was a tad too much.
So Ubisoft killed my love of Rabbids with one game. It's less Rabbids: Alive and Kicking, and more Dead on Delivery, If you do get a Kinect for Christmas, please don't buy this game. Watching grandma try Kinect Adventures after a few sherries is far more entertaining.
2/10
There are games like Child of Eden and, yes, even Kinect Sports that show the system can be a whole bunch of fun and well worth considering. Even Disneyland Adventure and Once Upon a Monster allow you legitimately have fun while playing Xbox with your kids.
But then Ubisoft came and trashed my party. It wasn't that I had never seen a bad game on Kinect before, just the name of Fighters Uncaged sends shivers down my spine, but a bad mini-game collection from the Rabbids? I didn't spot that one coming.
Now you may think I'm being cynical here, but I really do have love for those messed-up bunnies. Ever since they turned the fortunes of old gaming icon Rayman upside down (and, to some extent, Ubisoft too) they've been the subject of some groovy mini-gaming titles on the Wii. The Rabbids collection stands proudly in my line up of Wii games that get played when the party mood is fully in swing, so I was expecting a tour-de-force of Kinect partying when the disc landed on my doormat.
Even the intro promised more. Mad as ever, there was no way of making sense of the plot that involved crossing Rabbids with cows and then thousands of the blighters popping up all over a huge sprawling city. But that didn't matter, because the sooner the CGI was over the sooner I could get going on the games.
There are several options available from the menu screen, but there might as well be a million because the menu itself is broken enough to make you want to give up before you begin. I thought we'd got over the whole broken menu issue last year, but it seems Rabbids has it in spades. Once you do get around the menu, though, you can choose to play solo, or party games or to have a Rabbid mess around in your room.
The games are very basic and are all based around very simple gestures. This in itself isn't a bad thing...IF THEY WORKED! Coming out of my 5th game in a row where the software didn't register my movements or those of my daughter standing next to me was enough to send her packing. The rest I had to do alone, without backup.
Swiping, nudging, pumping, licking, they're all here. Yes, I said licking. That's right, with tongues. One thing Rabbids is sure to have you doing is looking like a complete idiot, and it knows it. That's why it secretly takes pictures of you which it proudly displays at the end, as if saying 'look, you know this game is crap, but we still got you shoving your leg up in some stupid pose, didn't we? More fool you player.'
It's less like a celebration of your gaming prowess and more like an uncle taking photos of you during a drunken family party and then showing them to all your friends the day after.
Only one game stands out as being any good. It's a take on lemmings where you need to get the Rabbids to the exit using hands to hold up bridges or work conveyor belts. It's not good enough to save the overall game, though.
In fact nothing shows up the lack of control this game gives Kinect more than the 'fun' mode that allows a single Rabbid access to your room. The idea is to hit the creature as it tries to goad you. Doing so involves a feat of skill in moving around your three dimensional room while watching the two dimensional TV picture. It glitches and it misses your reactions, even with your whole body actually showing up on screen, but at least when you do get to punch the damn Rabbid, you feel some sense of relief, even if expecting it to die while my hands were placed around its throat was a tad too much.
So Ubisoft killed my love of Rabbids with one game. It's less Rabbids: Alive and Kicking, and more Dead on Delivery, If you do get a Kinect for Christmas, please don't buy this game. Watching grandma try Kinect Adventures after a few sherries is far more entertaining.
2/10