Adidas has struck a deal to allow 505 Games to acquire the publishing rights for the new digital training platform, miCoach. 505 games stated that the title will be available in the summer of 2012 for the Xbox 360 and the PS3.
For those of you that are unfamiliar with the title, miCoach is a personal training system from adidas for “athletes of all ages, gender and level”. Users can develop bespoke training plans according to their chosen sporting activity, track their workout progress, get coaching feedback, and see improvements.
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."
