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phatal1ty
Posted on 26 May 11 at 23:44, Edited on 26 May 11 at 23:46
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Adrenalin Misfits
Gameplay, Handling and Controls:
The basic concept is a snowboarding game, where the highlights are the tricks, and cat like gravity. A fairly hefty tutorial (carrying a lot of the gamerscore) is upfront and easy to complete and the rest of the game is broken down in to short task based mission downhill runs.
"Downhill Slalom" - a basic get though the flags and down hill the fastest
"Fly Distance" Jump - get as far in the air as possible
"Trick Score" - show off as many stunts before you hit the finish
"Balloon Buster" - pop balloons, string together combos for higher scores
"Free Race" Speed - get to the bottom as fast as you can
(there are other options too but those are not associated with any achievements)
You stand side on to your screen as you would traveling downhill on a snow board its a third person view, and some boards have more fine tuning than others so it depends on your preference once you start unlocking boards as to what suits your movements better. Over the other 20 titles I've tried out this has very good menu layout and operation, and is pretty high on the recognition/accuracy chart.
Graphics, Sound and Camera:
The music represents elevator music for a cliche surfer/boarder/beach bum from the early 90's its monotonous and repetitive... and the voice over is much in the same vain with his southern Californian air brain bong hit drawl... the graphics are cartoony and colorful and easy on the eye, but the character design is something from a first year college assignment... The camera like most kinect games are on rails but the game doesn't suffer for it, its well placed.
Multiplayer:
Local Multiplayer is available split screen and you will need to buddy up with another human for this game to compete the 1000, but good thing is whatever boards you unlock though game play and/or purchase are available to everyone who plays on your console.
Like good kinect titles if you have enough room you won't find to much unintentional slapping going on, I did find on fly distance (the jump missions) it was a battle of the arms and hands for space but its not to bad and doesn't effect game play at all.
There are local leaderboards (no live leaderboards)
Replay Value
Prob won't end up as a show case title in years to come, but this was rather fun... perhaps something you whip out when kids are around.... there is very little appeal in going back to most kinect titles upon completion.
Achievements:
Best part about this whole game is right here... its easy... I spent 3 hours on the PAL version last night and I managed to round up all but four (and three are multiplayer) so 860 gamescore (with a 1.847 ratio!!) in a very short span, sure that was my second time though so you can argue I know what the game expects but my first 1000 was under 10 hours.
Now take my advice and cue up that 80msp DLC board, you will thank me for it... just trust me it saves you about 10 hours of grinding random courses to get the "good boards" and you can't even find a 5 star board in the game (but you can get A ranks without 5 star boards.)
There are one or two "A ranks" that will be quite hard and finding a star while your pulling a trick takes quite a bit of luck but is comparatively easy for kinect.
Conclusion:
If your here for high TA and good ratios and don't care to much about completion then this is the best kinect title you can find.
If you have both PAL and NTSC consoles you just found yourself a easy stackable! (you will need to purchase the DLC twice) whats there not to like? well there is a hell of a lot of jumping around, and you will sweat for the points but no more than any other kinect title. |