Julien Durand from Capsule Computers wrote :
Adidas miCoach tries to get gamers with Kinect into shape and enlists a slew of celebrity sportsmen and women in order to achieve that objective. With a broad range of motion-tracked exercises to take part in and high profile backing, could this be the game that gets us off our butts and onto the exercise mat?
123KINECT writes in their Kinect review: "... Another note, detection works very well with this game. If the game feels the need to readjust Kinect, it does it while it’s loading and readjusts all the time. This gives you a maximum amount of accuracy detection..."
The main idea of miCoach is similar to the Kinect launch title My Shape: Fitness Evolved and the more recent UFC Personal Trainer. All of these games give the player with a coach or instructor and then run them through an exercise regimen. What miCoach has going for it is that it’s not overly specialized like UFC Personal Trainer but isn’t as general as Fitness Evolved. Adidas has enlisted almost the entirety of their stable of football, soccer, basketball, tennis, and running stars to assist in a variety of training regimens for the miCoach game, even the new Olympic Women’s Heptathlon gold medal winner, Jessica Ennis, is on board.
Anthony Barker: "Since the release of Microsoft's motion-detection peripheral, Kinect, there has been a nice growing collection of fitness games available on Xbox 360. Picking up a fitness-based game may sound like brilliant idea at the time, because after all, the cost of a game is much cheaper than an annual gym subscription. But let’s be honest, anything that gets you moving will do its part in shedding those calories, and it doesn’t have to be a dedicated fitness title. For those people that prefer a tailored fitness game however, Adidas has teamed up with 505 Games to bring you their own take on the fitness genre with Adidas miCoach."
Would like to watch some ladies give this a go.
Is there even a difference between all of these exercise games at this point or is it just repetitive motion doing the same thing over and over again in the place of an actual instructor. Hell I could watch some show like that for free without the Kinect picking me up poorly.