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mindphluxnet
136,168
TA Score for this game: 77
Posted on 06 June 11 at 22:52, Edited on 06 June 11 at 23:03 |
This review has 26 positive votes and 3 negative votes. Please log in to vote. |
Part of the free Kinect Fun Labs package, Kinect Me scans your face and full body and transforms the images into an avatar. Well, at least that's what Microsoft claims it does.
When I tested it, however, the avatar it created didn't resemble "me" in any shape or form. My face has nothing to do with the avatar's - even when I removed glasses, it produced a badly deformed version at best, and instead of my stubble beard, I got pink (!) smears around my mouth. Awesome. The only thing it got right was my hair.
The body is another issue. During the test, I was wearing a plain black t-shirt and beige shorts. Neither was captured properly - the shorts ended up as long trousers looking more like army surplus than anything else, and the shirt became grey with artifacts of the rather bad Kinect camera on top.
Of course, I just had to try the scanning process naked - well, the upper body at least, because you never know what Microsoft is doing with these pictures, right? What can I say - it works, looks so-so, and it tells me I need to work out. Badly.
But in the end, it hardly matters, because it's not like you could export your created avatar and use it on Xbox Live - instead, you are treated to pose for a photo shoot. These pics can also be shared via the KinectShare.com website, although this never worked for me - the upload seemed to function, but the pictures never showed up on the site.
There are 8 achievements to be gained, which is well possible to do within 30 minutes. The only slightly grindy stuff is to share 10 photo shoots and do 25 shoots total, but even that is nothing to worry about.
For the low price of free, it's a nice idea and a small gamerscore boost is always welcome, but sadly, it doesn't really do everything as well as advertised and since you can't use the created avatars, it's a pretty useless toy.
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Loofahdog
73,649
TA Score for this game: 77
Posted on 18 January 12 at 00:04 |
This review has 8 positive votes and 1 negative vote. Please log in to vote. |
Well the good thing is that Microsoft is actually giving you something for your monthly/annual fees (unless you don't own a Kinect). But this really seems like the kind of thing you want to return right from the start unless you have a four year old who likes to play dress up. So after the (exaggerated) five minutes it takes to load it starts off by taking a very poor snapshot of your face and upper body, which will create your very own Kinect Me and will look nothing like you.
Next you'll be able to choose one of six sweet backdrops to pose that's right kids you read right, POSE in front of. After doing a series of four shots you'll be able to record a quick (5-7 second) obscene message to send to mom, teachers, politicians etc...
Once you completed all that you'll have the option to upload your huge embarrassing failure photo shoot onto the Kinect Me site:
https://kinectshare.com/
Overall I think its a good thing that this is a "free" app cause it gives me freaky flashbacks of BK's Sneak King minus having to pay for BK's turd on a bun for a free "game". Unless you're hunting for a quick 50g Gamerscore (maybe try shots of Jack before playing it may enhance gameplay) I suggest sitting this one out for sure. Enjoy 
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