EyeToy: Kinetic Combat

So great, what we have here is a press release for the game. But what else could you expect? It's not a game in the traditional sense, and though some of the exercises are a fair bit of fun they aren't the kind of thing that will bring gamers of all persuasions together for the first time in history. Kinetic Combat is a fitness program that can be used by those too scared to join a real gym or those with too little time on their hands. Or embarrassed fat people. Like me. [And me - Adam].

If you have the commitment to go through with the 16-week program there will be benefits - the combat training is more geared to fitness than kicking arse, mind, but either way there is a clear benefit from this so called 'working out'. Whilst the feedback from the personal trainers obviously isn't as good as it would be from a real life trainer, the game does only cost a one-off fee of around twenty quid. Not twenty quid a minute.

Basically - it does a job and it does it well, but how many people will take this seriously? Dancing around in front of a room full of people trying to clean windows or head an imaginary football is one thing, but taking time out of one's schedule to take part in serious fitness programmes conducted via the PS2? It's not going to have mass-market penetration.

It's difficult to know what to say - on one hand Kinetic Combat does its job and it does it very well. On the other, it's hard to see much point in this 'game', other than for lifestyle obsessed persons with no access to proper gyms or dojos.

Struggling to visualise how EyeToy: Kinetic Combat works? Have a look at the various Kinetic & Kinetic Combat videos below for an idea.