General review of the game. What do you think about how it is design with considerati | Forums

[jureknm]

I have been using the “game” for quite some time, and in my opinion it is an excellent concept, but unfinished one. As many games and programs the first versions are full of bugs and unfinished thoughts. This one is no different. The exit from the game is a guess and a good one too, you do not know if you are going to loose all your score points or not. The women voice and male trainer is annoying. The sync with kinect sensor is very poor, especially on the menu ( the icons are to small and for an elderly person hard to touch and focus on it. The game is used by people from different age group and this one is designed without any consideration to for the people who are not as good in synchronizing their movements. The concept is awesome but needs more work and more social research. It is not really a game, it is the beginning of some kind of interactive life style on a different level, and I think the “game designers do not know that yet”! Good try for beginners! I hope the next one will be better constructed. Just to justify what I just said; being 50 years old ,I bought Xbox Kinect and invested $ 400.00 just because of this workout “game”, I may buy another one, but if the people who design this program will not improve it, they will loose the 50 and over market share. Some of my friends who bought it on my recommendation already quit using it because of the "imperfections". Get better! Please!

[AuntieParticle]

For the most part I agree with some of your observations. But I am curious about your comment about the elderly. Just how old do you consider to be elderly? Surely you do not consider yourself elderly at 50? I am not young - though certainly not elderly - and the exercise sessions and menus work fine for me, even without my glasses Any game or exercise program has to have a target audience in mind, and I'm certain elderly was not the target audience for this game. Now if Ubisoft was to design an exercise game for the truly geriatric that would be a very fine thing, but that would be a totally different sort of program.

[bekkilyn]

I'm baffled about age 50 being considered elderly, but I do agree that the menu system is a bit awkward. I'd personally like to just choose training, choose the activity session, and then just start rather than choosing each thing twice and then going through a gazillion submenus, choosing each of those twice before I can finally get in! Just needs to be more simple and direct so that we don't waste so much time standing around choosing this and that before working out.