Eurogamer - Fighter Within Review

"There are so many things wrong with Fighter Within it's impossible to keep count. The first thing you notice is the gesture recognition. Kinect struggles to comprehend the most basic of hand movements. Performing simple actions requires gargantuan amounts of perseverance and luck, and frequently leaves you frustrated, furious and exhausted. And that's just the menu screens."

[Kayant]

........

Oh my that was brutal.

[pyramidshead]

Kinect 2.0 at its finest.

Seriously though the only thing it's good at right now is not being a 1:1 peripheral experience(Like kinect 1.0), face scanning and and being a forced(well let's say 'highly recommended') alternative in traversing a cluttered, messy UI. People paid you $100 more for this Microsoft q_q'.

[jackanderson1985]

ah yeah one quite poor game, rushed to be a launch title clearly spells out doom for the kinect 2...

if it's still this crap a year down the line then yeah it should be destroyed and never remembered... also cluttered UI? it's a relatively straight forward UI.. store is to the right, pins are the left and the main screen is where ur recently played and current title are but yeah cluttered and messy ok

[Eonjay]

"Performing simple actions requires gargantuan amounts of perseverance and luck, and frequently leaves you frustrated, furious and exhausted. And that's just the menu screens"

Oh my...

[Eonjay]

That was the most scathing dissent against a video game I have ever read.

"The other black character in the game can "communicate with voodoo spirits". Her biography reveals she lost her family in the 2010 Haiti earthquake. No, not too soon, perfectly appropriate, well done.

Don't worry, white people, you get stereotyped too! Meet kilt-wearing ginger thug Feargas (sic). "A ruined Scottish aristocrat and blacksmith, he divides his time between renovating the family castle, playing rugby and boxing." There's also a blonde Russian woman who dresses like a prostitute, the usual collection of assorted ethnic minorities sporting shaved heads and vaguely tribal tattooos, and a cockerny twat who pronounces dojo "dodgo"."

Um... the game is dead. You can probably stop the review now...

[MightyNoX]

@jackanderson

Yeah? What AAA rating games are there to justify Kinect? Zoo tycoon? Ryse? Erhm...aaaaa--

[NoLongerHereCBA]

Eonjay, that just shows that this is a rushed game/bad idea, which shouldn't have been released.

Games like Dance Central worked flawlessly with there menus. I really have no idea what Ubisoft has done to make it so terrible. Wish they would've canceled this game and put there focus on other games that do have potential.

[stuna1]

This game could be the perfect child distraction! All parent would have to do is sit their children in front of Fighter Within, leaving them to play for 15 minutes, instant nap time from exhaustion lol.

[frostypants]

@VaizardNL, why did MS allow them to release it in this state?

[MazzingerZ]

No one expected this to be a hit, right? So I guess this is ok, later games might use the X1 camera better just like games will show the PS4 real muscles in the near future

[Godmars290]

No. That would be as a TV remote.

On topic: it was pretty obvious that is game didn't work when you saw any videos of people playing it. Which MS seems to have tried to avoid until the last possible second.

[GTgamer]

They said it would better be than fighter uncaged they said it would be responsive they said it would be fun they said Kinect 2.0 made it 1:1 accuracy THEY LIED O.O

[Volkama]

Brutal and quite funny.

"~concept of brawling involves standing side-by-side and flailing about like a pair of camp kittens trying to climb a wall of butter."

Motion gaming at it's finest.

[frostypants]

THIS IS WHY I DON'T WANT TO PAY FOR KINECT 2.0. MS insisted all this crap was a thing of the past. Apparently not.

[Volkama]

There will be crap games with or without kinect. The trick is to not buy those ones.

[frostypants]

Oh yeah? Show me a good Kinect game that isn't dance related on either 360 or One. Steel Battalion was supposed to be the game changer, and we all know what an abortion that turned out to be. There is a near 100% correlation between "crap" and "Kinect game".

[Perjoss]

I think that's the lowest score I've ever seen on Eurogamer

[GroundZeroesBob]

Yeh Eurogamer don't usually throw 1's around. I can see other reviewers giving similar scores.

[ThatEnglishDude]

Did anyone honestly expect anything else? This looked shockingly bad from it's inception.

[Eonjay]

shockingly indeed.

[FITgamer]

Edonus thought it would get 11/10.

[Mr7Beans]

I lol'd.

[RealtorMDandDC]

even virtual ones or the sense of pushing a button. You can see the future in Minority Report. There have to be a illusion of tactical feedback...or some sort.

[husomc]

LOL this review made me laugh :D thnx Eurogamer

[Nujabes_]

Awful.

[KonsoruMasuta]

Kinect 2.0 is trash just like the first one.
This game is a fail. It has a 27 on metacritic.

[Knushwood Butt]

zero lag

[MestreRothN4G]

New generation, same schemes.

[ELCUCO]

Somewhere, Knack is laughing.

[FANTA1180]

http://www.eurogamer.net/ar...

they werent to fond of knack.

and knack is a AAA title for ps4 not a gimmicky sell for kinect early adopters.

[Budz_McGr33n]

Why did you put "Knack" and "AAA" in the same sentence? Just wondering, thanks..

[from the beach]

Ellie Gibson, perfect candidate to review a game that requires a degree of athleticism?

[KonsoruMasuta]

The reviewer can be a MMA fighter. That wouldn't stop the game from being broken.

[from the beach]

Is it broken though? I'm interested in buying it so I've watched a lot of videos - including ones on Eurogamer - where people have found it responsive.

The game obviously doesn't take itself seriously and it's no accident that the dialogue is hilarious, looks like good fun.

I'd love to hear an MMA fighter's impressions, lol.

[Hicken]

Yet another excuse, eh?

[from the beach]

Valid argument, excuse, whatever you want to call it.

Hey, are you officially following me around now? Kinda weird!

[NeoTribe]

Bruce lee wouldn't be able to get this pos to work.

[chrissx]

The worst next gen game available 2day...exclusive only on xbone

[quarkist]

Why bother even giving one... no good news for kinect lovers.

[MightyNoX]

Ubisoft should be ashamed of itself for trying to peddle more of this nonsense. And Microsoft needs its giant cyborg head examined for thinking this is a great way to show off the capabilities of its new hardware. It's like Tampax launching an ad campaign fronted by Danny Dyer."

Ouch ouch ouch , the review pulls no punches

[georgenancy]

fatality; most brutal and hilarious review i've read in a while

[Phoenix76]

My god!!! And here was I thinking that the ET was the worst game of all time!!!

[nope111]

GOATY

[FANTA1180]

judging the kinect based off of one poorly made game ,..real smart move guys.

if anyone has played the demo of kinect sports rivals ...the kinect is 99.9% accurate, controls beautifully , and all the games that use the kinect in some way work very well... except this trash game.

[TruthInsider]

Only possible on Xbox One !