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Well I got the kinetic for Christmas this year as one of the gifts I received. Now when I first got the box it seemed pretty big but I thought it was just padding and stuff.
But no actually the kintetic is quite a big piece of equipment to get and use, it has 3 camera's in the front and also has a microphone built in. They say to put it above or below your tv, but for many of us that have flat screens, putting the kinetic on top of it is no easy feat. It does register better if you do put it up higher for me anyways. The inital setup was quite simple and easy however and the kintetic sensor can actually swivel to adjust it self even more, it startled me at first cause i didnt expect it to actually move around on the stand.
The size - If you have seen a wii sensor its rather skinny and slim but of course it is only for picking up IR signals and not track body movement. Howver in total the kintetic is about 2.5 times as tall as a wii sensor and about 2 times the depth of one. Plus the kinetic even has vents on it because it gets rather hot after extended use.
I played the game I got with the kinetic, called "Kinetic Adventures" I am still in the workings of reviewing it however and that will most likely come in for tommorw. The kinetic however seems to have trouble with tracking at times, and also to add to it you need a HUGE space to play in, I know many of my friends rooms that are much smaller then mine and they would not even be able to play it in their own room because they wouldnt have enough space because you have to be at LEAST 6 feet away from the sensor itself. My room is only roughly 12-14 feet long and i have to take account for my bed also, which knocks it down to roughly 8 feet of movement space which it cant seem to track people very well when it gets closer to the 6 foot mark. The tracking can be kind of clunky at times especially on the dashboard and the pause menu when you try to move the cursor around sometimes it will disappear randomly and get extremely jumpy and get confused on which hand you are using. Hopefully they will attempt to fix some of these issues.
Not many hardcore fans of games will like the kinetic as of right now, they have yet to release very many games for it taking that software designers are just now learning the basics and how the kinetic tracks things, and they are trying to implement them into the game. However with nothing to actually track like we are used to having. Microsoft took a huge gamble, so far its off to a sort of rough start. The price fixture is another issue taking its about the price of a xbox 360 itself. Their is many bugs, and getting the tracking down for every single game is going to take a while, because the kinetic does have potential but it seems that maybe microsoft may have rushed it just to compete with the playstation move. The kinetic does have potential it just seems the tracking isnt always dead on and can be very jumpy at times, and some serious gamers could have some issues with paying such a high price for a piece of equipment such as this and then have this many issues. Hope fully in 2011 they will focus their attention on fixing the bugs instead of focusing on games for it.
This game was an attempt of something new from the people of Guitar Hero. The game has good remixed tracks just the only thing that is not fun about it is that a DJ in real life has many more functions they must preform, for example more then one knob and slider. The other downside to this that you can only play with one instrument with a few select songs that you can play with a guitar by your side. So it is like that went back a few paces when they released this game. Something else that you have to do is play career mode to unlock songs. Sure it has a point but then again sometimes you just want to be able to try out a song also. They could have put a little bit more time into this game, and DJ Hero 2 is coming up here soon, hopefully they will make plenty of revisions to this game. The game is not nearly as hard as guitar hero is either. After just half a day you can be playing on expert mode since their is only 3 buttons and 1 slider that you HAVE to use. Since you do not need to use the knob or star power. The neat thing they did with this was the ability to do some extra things and the reverse feature which is nice to score them extra points and is cool since you get to sort of remix the song more. Some of the songs are a bit iffy to me, but that’s just me.
6/10 – I think they could have done plenty to spice up this game. Giving it higher graphics, maybe more then 3 buttons? Something a little harder. More customization, be able to make your own remixes would be awesome to do also.
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