Kinect Sports: Season Two
© 2011 Microsoft Studios
Easy to play, smoothly designed, and extremely fun as a social game, this second version of Kinect Sports contains six sports: tennis, golf, American football, baseball, skiing and darts. Of all the Kinect titles we've reviewed, this is one of the best at accurately mapping your movements, so it actually seems like you're throwing the darts. The football game lacks in-depth features such as a career mode, but you can use audible commands to choose plays and snap the ball. Each game has three difficulty levels, with the starting level (rookie) designed to make sure that a child can succeed. Sharing is possible either online (an XBox Gold membership is required, sold extra) or with as many as four other players in your living room. Noteworthy features include in-game voice commands and much better motion tracking than last year. Also new is Challenge Play for Xbox Live, which lets you send a challenge to a friend for later when they log on. You can also log onto KinectShare.com and download photos and videos capture in-game and share with friends and family, and for the first time, post these directly to your Facebook wall. Other features include an in-game calorie counter, and unlockable avatar awards. Developed by Rare and Big Park Games for Microsoft Studios.
$50, Xbox Kinect
Teaches: sports, bodily kinesthetic movement
CTR Rating: 96%