For kinect users.

I had heard dire things about Fighters uncaged ont eh Kinect so I avoided it dispite the appreal of a Kinect combat game. However my sister got me the UFC training game on the Kinect for my birthday and I ahev found it pretty good.
Anyway I also had some HMV vouchers and so I picked up a pre-owned copy of Fighters uncaged for a tenner and actually I am finding it pretty good. I can see the lack of a multiplayer option is a huge gap and the game will get repetative pretty fast but the moves are pretty responsive, albeit a little slow and a tad vanilla (you can't do multi-strike kicks for example probably becuase it can't recognise the movement fast enough.
Having done matrial arts for about 30 years now off and on I think its pretty good and a 30 minute game is a decent work out.

I wonder if the bulk of reviewers were just people who couldn't master the controls because it was whole body and not just with their thumbs.
I could also see that I might be putting in way too much effort as I treat the game like a shadow boxing session with an opponent so I am hitting at 50% power or so throughout and could probabaly do the same with a far more casual approach.

Anyone else tried it out?

I haven't tried it.

Wii boxing, the first time I was trying to punch like I was really boxing while my friend just wiggled the controller and beat me up. I have a feeling the kinect doesn't take into account size vs. effort or anything. If you put in the force and effort a 3 y/o can muster, I bet it will register.

Quote from: Cranewings;477514I haven't tried it.

Wii boxing, the first time I was trying to punch like I was really boxing while my friend just wiggled the controller and beat me up. I have a feeling the kinect doesn't take into account size vs. effort or anything. If you put in the force and effort a 3 y/o can muster, I bet it will register.

hehehe that is certainly the case as my daughter beats me up all the time in the Kinect Sports boxing game.

Uncaged looks a litte better but I agree it can't judge power but it does have a more accurate measure of distance moved and range etc as it looks at the total length of your punch kick etc

I wonder if theres a hack for the kinnect t make it register movements faster? i know there are quite a few hacks for it out there so it may be worth a looky if only out of curiosity.

Quote from: Cranewings;477514I haven't tried it.

Wii boxing, the first time I was trying to punch like I was really boxing while my friend just wiggled the controller and beat me up. I have a feeling the kinect doesn't take into account size vs. effort or anything. If you put in the force and effort a 3 y/o can muster, I bet it will register.

I had the same experience. I've boxed for years, but Wii boxing didn't account for real world movement. If anything it penalized you if you used proper technique. I was very dissapointed with the game as the commercial made it look much more like a 1-1 experience