2012/4/18: Xbox 360: Forza Motorsport 2, Kinect Sports Season 2, SSX

[VideoGameCritic]

Feel free to comment on this latest set of Xbox 360 reviews.

[Verm1]

You can turn the tutorials off in both Kinect Sports 1 and 2.

 

Both have options in their menus for turning them off permanently; globally in the first game and by sport in the second game.

 

You can also turn them off while a tutorial is actually playing, though I can’t recall if that just turns them off for the match in play or turns them off across the whole game.

 

You can also turn cut scenes off in Kinect Sports 2 via the options menu. I can't recall if Kinect Sports 1 has that option, but both allow you to skip them while they are playing.
 
That said; I still think you need seperate icons for 'requires' vs 'supports' Kinect or Move.

[michaeld1]

Forza Motorsport 2 was released in 2007; it was Forza Motorsport 3 (which I think was far better than the second) that was released in 2009. 

[Sut1]

These aren't showing as the latest reviews on theobile version of the site.

[VideoGameCritic]

[QUOTE=Sut]These aren't showing as the latest reviews on theobile version of the site.[/QUOTE]

Thanks for pointing this out. I fixed it.

[Irenicus1]

I was really excited about the Kinect when it 1st came out. I still don't own one, but I have gotten to play it a few times. My concern for the Kinect is twofold. First concern is that it isn't much better than the Wii. Second concern is that Microsoft & other publishers will be content just copying Wii-like games.

So far I'm not impressed. From my limited experience the controls are not much (if any) better than the Wii's.

I'd love to see Microsoft put some serious effort into making some awesome sports games. I don't mean 6 sports packed into one package. I mean a really well done baseball, golf, tennis & etc. game with career modes, stat tracking & all that good stuff. It feels like the Kinect is just content copying the Wii.  

[Astrosmasher1]

Well I bought a kinect two months back.  Some games are quite good some are very very poor.
Project Eden good though it plays better minus the kinect
Fitness evolved, this is the reason I got the kinect and its great
Fruit kinect a lot of fun for about 3 or 4 minutes
Gunstringer great you play a puppet and have to kill the bad guys.  I am playing this and imagine how they could make it a pirate game with this.  If they did this the kritik would be in seventh heaven as would I.
Rise of the nightmare.  I love survival horror games.  This is probably the worst game I have played on the kinect.  They could have played this as an on the rail slash em up and it would have been superb.  Sega wanted to be different and to play game you need to goose step like a nazi zealot.  This game is tedious.
Mass effect 3 it works better with Kinect, that is what it says on the box.  Its completely superfluous.  Sometimes it works and sometimes it does not.  I find using the power wheel is much easier. You are concentrating on getting the enemy under fire and you have to shout out at FIRST AID at the top of you voice to get it to work. 
Halo combat evolved.  Another add on the game that is a waste of time for the most part. 
Leela intriguing fitness and meditation game.  The jury is still out on this one.
Games party in motion.  Awesome for one reason you can play root beer tapper on it.  Or a version of it.  The other games are like Kinect sports.

Also I thought that forza 2 was over rated and not a lot of fun so the critic is right on the money.  Kinect sports 2 is a lot of fun I would give it a B. 

[Astrosmasher1]

Do not believe the critic Rise of the nightmares is like watching paint dry.....