Adrenalin Misfits Reviews

  • phatal1typhatal1tyThis gamer has had their achievements removed from the site
    26 May 2011 26 May 2011
    14 2 5
    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.
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    oO maur1c1o OoIf you finding kinect isnt picking you up or responding well to you, try re tuning it especially when playing a new game make sure you have good light in the room but not too much sun light as i personally find sun light reduces the kinect accuracy make sure you take time out to set your kinect up properly dont just turn it on and get playing its not like a controller and taking 5 minutes to tune it to specific games will work wonders.
    Posted by oO maur1c1o Oo on 24 Oct 11 at 09:29
    oO maur1c1o OoNice review thanks will give it a go at some point
    Posted by oO maur1c1o Oo on 24 Oct 11 at 09:29
    SincereSeeker6Definitely should get Sabre's board DLC. Makes Rank A achievements much easier.

    Path to completion is to do the trials, then do all A ranks. By then you should have most of the achievements. You can mop up what's left as it's likely trick things. Then multiplayer.
    Posted by SincereSeeker6 on 22 Oct 21 at 19:04
  • USukBlueballsUSukBlueballs46,973
    17 Jan 2011
    1 5 2
    This is a Fun game. I like it and recommend it to everyone. You need to have balance, balance, and balance. That is the key I believe. I really like the easy achievements.I got over at least 16 the first time I played it. Most of them come buy just playing the game through.
    The game is really comparible to kinect adventures in difficulty. The kids will LOVE it. Even my 14 year old daughter was playing it and she is frigging a non video game girl!!! well I hope this helped. I think it is a great game. My family enjoys it.

    I hoped this helped.
    5.0
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