It’s a mobile phone craze trailing only the likes of Angry Birds and Cut the Rope, and now it takes it act to the big screen. Fruit Ninja Kinect has arrived, with an asking price 10 times of what you’d pay on your phone. Does it really scale up?
First of all it’s important to discuss the controls and whether they work as you would expect. On the phone, you simply swipe a finger at the screen in the direction you want to slash, and it “just works” (though some mobile devices perform better than others). On the Kinect? Well your body is mirrored as a shadow on the background of the screen, giving you an idea where your arms and legs are in relation to the playing field. Now before you think this is like every other webcam game you’ve ever played, remember this is Kinect and it can actually determine depth. This means that you don’t actually slash until your hands and feet come out towards the screen, a difference that really makes things completely natural and also makes it easier to dodge those nasty bombs. On the whole it actually feels like a game that was developed for the Kinect first and not vice versa. The only place where it falters is in the game menus, where things are a bit cluttered and it’s easy to end up someplace wrong simply by scratching your head.
