[360] Kinect

With the price coming down to £80 on Boxing Day, I bought myself a Kinect. My living room is just about big enough although it works way better now I have it on a shelf above the tv, rather than on the table in front of it. Being as tall as I am means it struggled to see my head.

Anyway, it's a pretty cool gadget. The voice control stuff is largely pointless, navigating menus with a controller is hardly an effort, likewise gesture control is pretty silly but the games I've got for it are all pretty good fun.

Kinect Adventures that comes with it is a lot of jumping up and down mainly and pretty tiring, but fun with someone to play against. The Rabbids game is awesome, as are all of them only now you don't have to grapple with the sketchy Wii-mote controls and there's a game where you have to headbutt a rabbid as fast as possible which is utter win. Rise of Nightmares I only tried briefly so far but punching zombies is the best way to kill them, I've enjoyed what little I played. Finally, Child of Eden is fucking amazing. Like Rez only better, which means it's about the best game ever.

So does anyone else have a Kinect and what games are worth getting? Any issues with it at all? I noticed when playing Space Marine online today that the default setting is for the Kinect to act as a mic when online which means every game with Kinect owners in has horrific echo of the game as each device picks up the sounds and plays them back to everyone. Other than that though, I'd say it's worth what I paid for it.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Child of Eden is fucking amazing, especially if you liked Rez. Rise of Nightmares is actually good fun too and hilariously knackering when you get swarmed by zombies. I'd have bought more games for mine but because there aren't so many (I imagine) they seem to hold their prices longer than normal games. You can already pick up Mass Effect 3 for 75% or RRP in most shops whereas Kinectimals is a similar price, months and months after it came out.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Halo Anniversary has it too with voice commands for pretty much everything plus the weird analysing thing that works as a highly effective form of night vision if nothing else.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.