Kinect Sports Rivals review | Gamesblip

Gamesblip offers their opinion on Microsoft Games Studios' Kinect Sports Rivals for the Xbox One.

[jasona1980]

Wow, someone actually scored it lower than my 6/10 haha. It's bloody crap isn't it !!

[Negative77]

Actually it's not. Played it at a friend's house and to my surprise it's a lot of fun. 7/10 would be fair. Not deep at all but a good party game IMO.

[Army_of_Darkness]

Fun you say?? LOL!

https://www.youtube.com/wat...

[InTheLab]

@Army

14:25 lmao. This game is a joke and reminds me why I don't own an Xbox One.

[randomass171]

I can imagine this game being fun with friends who don't normally play video games, but I think it's one Xbox One game that will quickly be forgotten.

[dale_denton]

hey negative,........ negative.

[Blaze929]

"Yes, I’m Samuel L Jackson, and I’m a douche. "

reasons why people don't take reviews seriously anymore and just look at the score with no reading. The first three "paragraphs" aren't even about anything. This "review" is a joke. Not saying the game is bad (which it isn't) but seriously, just read this thing.

Game's fun to play. At the end of the day that's what matters. But not for $59.99 - Microsoft seriously has the game f'd up if they think this is worth $60 USD and comparable to other games. I can't support that.

[Volkama]

The One has a very limited selection of games I could consider. Kinect Sports Rivals would be an option to play with my kids, but £50 is just a stupid asking price imo.

It's difficult going from stores like Steam or Origin or even the older consoles and then looking at the One store. The prices are just silly by comparison.

A couple of weeks ago the Lego Marvel game was £4.99 on Steam. I saw it was only reduced from £14.99, so I figured I'd pay that much extra to get it on the more child-friendly Xbox One. Had a look and it was £49.99. 10x as much as the same game on Steam. Impossible to justify buying that version.

I hope the consoles mature quickly, I can't wait for the prices to drop and the catalogues to expand.

[N311V]

Hardly a review. Ironically just called every sport vague and simply.

[gamesblip]

Ironically?

[randomass171]

The irony being that sports are pretty specific as far as tasks and objectives are concerned.

[allrangemode]

How bad is the Xbox One Kinect?

[gamesblip]

Still needs a footy field for a lounge room. I had my couch squished against my kitchen cupboards and it still whined about not seeing my feet - which are huge.

[Negative77]

Kinect is actually an awesome piece of hardware. Fail troll is fail.

[gamesblip]

I'm not sure whether you're prepared for a serious discussion on this with your 'fail troll' type, but I've been more accepting of Kinect previously than most anybody else reviewing - just search for 'Kinect' within my site's search box. However, it's the next generation now and it's time for Kinect to step up. If anything, KSR is a leap backwards for the tech as it just accentuates previous misgivings many have had with it. I'm hardly celebrating the fact.

[DigitalRaptor]

Unfortunately not for gaming.

And everything else it touts is supposedly for ease-of-use i.e. voice commands to not have to get up and use your controller to do stuff.

Ironically then we have the same people justifying games where you have to make more effort for a more frustrating and less immersive experience. C'mon it's got to be one or the other, and at the moment it leans heavily towards non-gaming... on a gaming console.

[Charybdis]

Well its fun party game with friends and family some of which I know don'like playing 3d games as they aren't really good (understatement) at controlling characters with a controller in a 3d environment. There are people who like the game and who don't like it. 5/10 I find an understandable score but is just a score and doesn't mean people can't have fun with it or that they are wrong to have fun with it. Either-way the hardware itself is impressive and is kinda cool to show to other people.

[WiredX]

5/10. Seriously?

[gamesblip]

OK, just for you alone how about 2.5/10?

[WiredX]

Kinect is really an amazing hardware piece. It is shocking that you guys rated it 5/10. It should be 7-8/10.

[DigitalRaptor]

The flaws have already been pointed out by multiple 5/10 and 6/10 scores.

The game doesn't justify gaming on the Kinect, yet again. So they've had 4 years to focus on it and get it right, and they can't. Billions of dollars they've invested in it and it performs exactly as we said it would for gaming, even with a better version. Proves a lot I'd say.

[randomass171]

The thing is Kinect Sports is a far more casual title and probably doesn't change much from the 360 games. If Microsoft are going to continue trying to sell Kinect then they need to do a better job than this. Also keep in mind that 5/10 doesn't necessarily mean it's a terrible game, that score is supposed to mean "average" or "okay."

[allrangemode]

lol I cannot believe this thing exists. Is it crazy that I'd love for RARE to make a worthwhile follow-up to Perfect Dark 64?

[mezati99]

i think it's pretty clear now kinect is not made for games. unbundle that sh!t MS

[gamesblip]

There have been a handful of decent games that showed promise for Kinect on 360 - The Gunstringer and Sersame Street edutainment in particular - but this fails because standard controller play would improve it massively.

[incendy35]

I am really enjoying this game. It may seems simple at first but every sport has so many little nuances you have to perfect if you want to be in the leaderboards. The timing especially is something that takes a lot of practice to master, especially with Tennis and Soccer. My only real complaint is that the load times are a bit long. Other than that, game is great.

[76erz24]

This might honestly be the worst written review of all-time lol.

[cfc78]

I doubt a kinect game will ever get a top score for 2 reasons the games aren't good enough and the fan base isn't big enough but for those who enjoy kinect and it's games does the score really matter.

[randomass171]

Agreed. There just isn't a market so there won't be any really high quality games for Kinect.

[giovonni]

The game is a lot of fun, it's just a step back from the original Kinect sports. Soccer is one of the bigger let downs on this one instead of improvements the A.I are placed on obvious rails that never change in direction. Some stand there with there hands cross and don't even try to block the path of a kick. Also, there is no option to use your head to hit the ball, and finally the goalie is limited in motion no side to side movement.
The original soccer for Kinect sports was also limited but wasn't as limited as this. A.I challenged you to move the ball, you could use your head to score, and the goalie didn't just stand in the middle. The game is fun, for what it can do, but is disappointing from where it could have been. I would have rather them scrapped this version made an hd remake and added 5 more mini sports to play

[DoctorJones]

I don't really care about the game, but that was one of the worst reviews I've ever read. Shockingly bad.

You should be ashamed of yourself.

[urwifeminder]

Will be picking this up soon the bowling and jet ski is what I will be playing had so much family fun in the last game this will be a hoot great review cheers.