About the game
Kinect Adventures! is a 2010 sports game developed by Good Science Studio and published by Microsoft Game Studios for the Xbox 360. It is a collection of five adventure and sports minigames that use the Kinect motion camera, and it was offered as a pack-in game with the accessory. It was unveiled at E3 2010 and went on to become the best-selling game for the Xbox 360, selling 24 million units worldwide.
The game uses full body motion, and every minigame has jump-in, jump-out multiplayer. Each one lasts about three minutes. Most are co-operative in two player mode, and Reflex Ridge is competitive. Xbox Live multiplayer is supported. The goal in every minigame is to collect adventure pins, which earn bronze, silver, gold and platinum medals that decide progress in story mode.
The five minigames are 20,000 Leaks, River Rush, Rally Ball, Reflex Ridge and Space Pop. In 20,000 Leaks you plug cracks in a glass cube under the sea. River Rush has you steer a raft down the rapids by stepping and jumping. Rally Ball is a Breakout-style game where you hit balls at blocks. Reflex Ridge is an obstacle course on a moving platform. Space Pop has you pop bubbles in a zero-gravity room.
Kinect's camera takes photos during play, which are shown to you and saved to a storage device. They could be uploaded to a private area on KinectShare.com, which has since closed, and then downloaded or shared on social networks. As a pack-in, the game also helps with setting up and using the Kinect sensor.
Pre-order Kinect bundles included a card with codes for two exclusive Rally Ball levels, one exclusive Reflex Ridge level and a helicopter prop for your Xbox Live Avatar.
Reviews were mixed. Reviewers liked it as a demonstration of what Kinect can do but wished for more minigames. In Japan, Famitsu gave it 30 out of 40.
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What critics said
Metacritic 61 out of 100 (Xbox 360). Individual reviews: Game Informer 7.5/10, GameSpot 7/10, IGN 6.5/10, Official Xbox Magazine 7/10, Eurogamer 6/10, Edge 6/10, Destructoid 6/10, Famitsu 30/40.
Extra content
Pre-order Kinect bundles came with a code card for exclusive levels and an Avatar prop.
- Pre-order bonus code card: Two Rally Ball levels, one Reflex Ridge level and a helicopter prop for your Avatar
Good to know
- It was the pack-in game with the Kinect sensor, and it has sold about 24 million copies, the best-selling Xbox 360 game.
- Pre-order Kinect bundles included a card with codes for exclusive Rally Ball and Reflex Ridge levels and a helicopter Avatar prop.
- The five minigames are 20,000 Leaks, River Rush, Rally Ball, Reflex Ridge and Space Pop.
- The name 20,000 Leaks is a play on the Jules Verne novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas.
- Photos taken during play could be uploaded to KinectShare.com, which has since closed.
- The game is built on Unreal Engine 3.
- Four of the 32 achievements are hidden: That's What I Call Teamwork!, Jump The Shark, Oooh… Shiny! and Platinom Nom Nom.
Made by
Director Kudo Tsunoda, Producer Dana Hanna, Producer Michael David Forgey, Designer Matt Coohill, Designer Shawn Wright, Designer Stephen Latta, Composer Daniel Pemberton.
