Double Fine's Happy Action Theater for the Kinect doesn't go for convoluted mechanics or elaborate victory conditions. It just wants you to have fun.
GameShark - Happy Action Theater is much more a toy than a “game”. You could also certainly look at it as a collaborative version of an early WarioWare, without the unifying elements of scorekeeping or increasing difficulty. At its heart, it’s a big, goofy, minigame collection that encourages people to make complete asses of themselves – and it’s a whole lot of shallow, shiny fun.
Double Fine's Happy Action Theater smashes the wall between exercising and fun without even trying.
Paul Acevedo: "Double Fine proved they had their heads wrapped around the Kinect pretty well with last year’s retail release, Sesame Street: Once Upon a Monster. That game was perfect for parents and kids to play together, plus it sparkled with the trademark Double Fine charm. The studio’s sophomore Kinect release, Happy Action Theater, is a smaller-scale Xbox Live Arcade game. While HAT (as I’ll now shorten it because I love headware) largely lacks traditional structure or goals, it bursts at the seams with multiperson silliness."
I've always wanted to drop my nephews and nieces in lava. Now I can.
I'm always down for punching pooping pigeons.
Huh, this actually sounds pretty fun. I'm sure I'll still never play it, but who knows. I mean, the coolest thing I thought Microsoft showed at E3 when they announced the then-Natal was that painting game.
This game is the perfect babysitter.
Looks too much like eyetoy, of 2003. I'm sure there's better uses for kinect.