This past Super Bowl weekend I got to spend quite a bit of time with the Xbox Kinect. My girlfriend's brother got it for Christmas. When I first heard about the Kinect I was very negative about it. Seeing how the Wii became a shovel ware system I didn't have high hopes for this.
When we started to play Motionsports, which is one the launch games, we had to stand in a square to get recognized. That worked most of the time. Sometimes it would error out and you had to step off of their square and then step back in. As far as the actual motion capture it works pretty good. On the skiing mini game if you put your arms in the air your guy would stick his poles in the air.
There are some drawbacks to the Kinect. The first one is you need a lot of open space to play multiplayer. When we would do 2 player skiing we only had about 5 feet to use between the two of us. I would say you need about double that. Another problem I noticed was it had a set area to play in. If you stepped out of that area it would stop the game and make you step back into that magic square and rescan you in. Overall it is a pretty decent piece of hardware. It has some problems space wise, but it does a good job of capturing your motion. Ry-Guy gives the Kinect a 8 out of 10
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