Xbox 360 250GB Console with Kinect
by Microsoft
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Product Summary
Brand: MicrosoftAudio: English (Unknown)
Release Date: 2010-11-04
Platform: Xbox 360
Model: S7G-00001
Color: Black
Publisher: Microsoft
Product features:
- Jump, dodge, and kick your way through exciting adventures set in a variety of exotic locations with Kinect Adventures
- Xbox 360 console includes built-in Wi-Fi for easy connection to Xbox LIVE, and comes with matching black controller and headset
- Get off the couch and into the game by using your body as the controller with Kinect
- Control your Xbox 360 with a single gesture or wave of the hand
- Connect with friends and family with easy and interactive gameplay, video chat, and more
Video Game Reviews of Xbox 360 250GB Console with Kinect
Customer Review: Kinect really does get you moving
Summary: 5 Stars
We've owned our Xbox 360 Kinect bundle since just before Thanksgiving (about five weeks) and both my wife and I really enjoy it.
While we didn't own prior editions, this is as advertised -- sleek looking, quiet, cool, and really has some great addons. We are both "mature" and find this is a fun way to improve fitness, while at the same time acting as a great music server with a Windows 7 PC and a great streaming video server with Netflix. The interfaces are wonderful for both features. As an audio/visual playback device for a media server, this does a good job -- very fast.
NOTE -- following comments apply to device connected wirelessly.
POSITIVES: (1) Picture quality is excellent. Netflix movies actually look a little better than they do streamed via our top-of-the-line LG video player, and I am really surprised at both the reliability and the framerate they stream over a wireless interface. Games I'm familiar with on the PC (Mass Effect 2) also are gorgeous with frame rates that make you believe you are looking at movies. (2) DVD playback is quite good -- not as good as my audiophile DVD/CD/SACD player, but better than most DVD players in the "middle" of the market or lower. I have not had a problem playing a single game or DVD on it. (3) Quietness and Cooling -- sound is absolutely unobtrusive, and I have checked the heat with infra-red laser and 85 degrees is the warmest reading I've seen. (4) Game control via Kinect. There seems to be some "lag" in the device reading your body position and responding to changes. Ordinarily, it doesn't seem enough to detract from lower levels of gameplay, but it might be a problem at more difficult levels we haven't reached yet. (5) Absolutely a great tool for fun for a group, with some games for up to four players -- lots of opportunities to socialize live or via the XBOX LIVE network. (6) Installation and setup were painless. If you plug the right connectors into the right places, you are largely done, so for those of you who have a bit of technophobia, this should not be a problem for you. (7) In a social settings, the intermittent photos the device takes of you are funny! (8) Fun basis to improve your social life with friends . . . if you have enough room.
NEGATIVES -- (1) this device ships with unacceptably cheap A/V interconnect cables. If you have a good sound system and TV to hook it into, invest in upgraded cables (Monster makes a reasonably priced set I bought through Amazon), because the cheap connectors did not make a "positive" connection in the video part into my A/V receiver. (2) The Kinect receiver works accurately but is a bit finicky about placement. On my TV, because of my TV being on top of an entertainment center, it sits a little less than 7' off the floor. It reads our overall bodies well, except sometimes our feet toward the front of the "best" player zone not in games where foot placement is essential. (3) The Xbox live menu and other menus are not intuitive, nor do they seem completely accessible via Kinect -- it seems you need a wireless controller by you to get you back to the top level menus. (4) It's unusual I spend this much money on a device delivering so many advertisements for games, etc. to me. Some I watch -- most I don't. (5) Can't understand why Microsoft did not include an HDMI connector (as one plug handles everything). (6) You will probably have to rearrange the furniture in the room you use for this. In a living room, that may not be convenient.
GAMES / ADD-ON REVIEWS
Microsoft A/V remote control -- very nice quality remote control shifting buttons to make it video playback friendly. Nice to have if you are going to watch Netflix movies or DVDs on the device.
KINECT ADVENTURES
This is a very friendly and enjoyable set of mini-games to ease you up and off the sofa. There's Rallyball, where you try to knock out and clear targets using a ball like a volleyball you hit into a cage. Keeping the multiple balls in play becomes a real challenge. It's a lot of fun, but this is one of those places the controller seems to lag so the ball goes right "through" my outstretched hand. River Rush is a rafting game, which is both pretty and a lot of fun -- the "theory" of controlling the raft is intuitive, but perfection is elusive. Reflex Ridge places you on a conveyor against a timer and requires you to dodge, jump or duck under obstacles. If your avatar hits too many, you are dizzy and cannot react. Space Pop is an outer-space bubble popping game in 3D -- you have to elevate off the "floor" to get some of the bubbles. 20,000 Leaks puts you in an aquarium where pesky and agressive fish keep knocking leaks into the glass walls and floor which you have to cover to plug. These are all great fun for people from five or six to seventy. You can proceed at your own pace and get the old heart rate up gratifyingly high while having fun. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
KINECT SPORTS
This game gives you a variety of events related to Soccer, Bowling, Beach Volleyball, Boxing, Table Tennis, and Track and Field. Most of the games seek okay, and there are mini-game modes and a special "party" mode, which should add a lot to the fun. You can play against live players or the computer. Probably suitable for older children as well as adults. RECOMMENDED
MOTION SPORTS
Gives you access to more "realistic" football, skiing, boxing, soccer, horseback riding and hang gliding. It may be a disadvantage at first if you actually have snowskied, ridden a horse or used a hang glider, because the controls don't exactly mimic the sport -- at least my friends who have done those things say. Nonetheless, the game views (especially hang gliding) are quite pretty, and once you focus on the "it's just a game" controll features, it's fun and active. You need to read the manual on the controls on this one, before playing though. Once again, this could be a good basis for a party. This game is more adult-oriented than to kids, I think. Hang gliding on this game has caused me to place that item LAST on my bucket list, as I have augered in quite a few times. RECOMMENDED.
YOUR SHAPE - FITNESS EVOLVED
These are conditioning exercises with a coach to help you do them properly and motivate you through them. The video and the music are pleasant. You can choose the sex of your fitness coach. Before you start, the kinect scans you and you enter your weight, fitness level, and goals before the program gives you a fitness test and then starts your personal training. The device gives you continuous feedback whether you are doing the exercise as prescribed and in the correct rythm. If you are in tip-top shape, this game may not be for you, but if you are a couch potato, this can ease you into higher levels of fitness and improve your overall conditioning, balance and stamina. Gym games give you an opportunity to forget you are "working out" or can be played with two players for more fun and change. There is also a "Tai Chi" section which is very relaxing after a workout, and has helped me with my balance and grace. One of the things this game does which I was both surprised at and has really helped my wife is it gives you feedback about the way you stand and how your hips, arms, legs, and torso are alligned. My wife learned she tends to "favor" one leg, and this device is helping her "relearn" correcting her posture. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
SUMMARY -- This is a powerful basis for improved fitness while having fun (at least for those of us who are way too sedentery), but I wish we had a room we could largely devote to it. Moving the furniture around in the living room is an okay substitute, though. Also, it's a great thing to do in a social context if you are the type of person who can laugh at those silly pictures of yourself while playing the game!
EDIT 3/18/2011 -- We have hooked the Xbox into the Gigabit Ethernet backbone in our home, and it has done nothing but improve the quality of streaming movies, etc. Everything we said before remains true. If you want to watch Netflix or listen to a lot of hi-def music files on your Xbox, then I would recommend hooking it up via Ethernet. Also, this makes downloading games into it a lot faster. If none of these functions interest you, you will be happy with performance on any good wireless setup with DSL.
Description of Xbox 360 250GB Console with Kinect
The Special Edition Xbox 360 250GB Console with Kinect. Kinect brings games and entertainment to life in extraordinary new ways-no controller required. Easy to use and instantly fun, Kinect gets everyone off the couch moving, laughing, and cheering. See a ball? Kick it. Control an HD movie with the wave of a hand. Want to join a friend in the fun? Simply jump in. Wi-Fi is built-in for easier connection to the world of entertainment on Xbox LIVE, where HD movies and TV stream in an instant. Xbox 360 is more games, entertainment, and fun.Consoles Games
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