Kinect Adventures Impressions

Whether you like it or not, if you buy Kinect you'll also get Kinect Adventures packaged in at no additional charge. Like Wii Sports helped showcase what the Nintendo motion console could do, Adventures gives an overview (of sorts) as to how the £130 camera you've just bought works, and as far as bundles go, you could do far worse. The use of Avatars once again signals that this is aimed at the casual audience, and yet the controls are so intuitive that hardcore gamers won't be able to help themselves from giving mini-games such as River Rally and Space Streak a go just one more time. Where Adventures finds its problems is in its length: there's no story mode here (as we expected), so once you've tried the 5 types of games (don't be fooled by the box saying there are 20 adventures- it's really 5 with variations) the novelty begins to wear off- fast. For this reason, while Kinect Adventures is a neat package (especially for free) to show you the ropes with the peripheral, I would recommend you buy another Kinect-compatible title so you get some real use out of it!