Zumba Fitness: Join the Party

Zumba Fitness: Join the Party

It 'a piece of cake: Zumba dance fitness craze is a good exercise. Try copying the up-tempo workout ice fishing is a Zumba instructor, successful or not, and so much more if you like cheese pieces. But what makes Zumba vigorous aerobic exercise is also an incomplete Kinect match in this game. More often than not, quick steps, and booty wiggling with Zumba Fitness: Join the party is based on Kinect to defy detection sensor. In addition to the uncertain identification, not a menu interface awkward to deal with as well as the lack of specific support in-game dance instruction, even in Training mode. Jazzy neon graphics for the game counted, and there are a number of genuine Zumba workouts, but the range of problems of accuracy and uninspired gameplay elements (ie the starting point-scoring system), there is not much to recommend this DVD on the Zumba classes.

The game is based on 30 routines, each of 20 or 45 minutes, divided between beginner, intermediate and expert difficulty. The routines consist of four or five minute segments with music in America as a whole may contain samba, merengue, cumbia and calypso rhythms with some inspired dancing in the womb and thrown in for good measure. Some are newly designed for the game, but most will be familiar to followers of Zumba and are guided by the great masters of Tanya Zumba, Beto, and Gina. That reflects one of the instructors through a routine, and multicolored neon lights change color according to figures from the way the Kinect think they are, in theory, turn the lights green (instead) to red (no course ). In practice, detection is always capable of easy steps.

In the absence of reliable detection, Zumba Fitness can have at least the same amount of positive routines and is a good exercise, requiring long periods of energetic movement. They are also very fun because you feel like dancing sessions lively and non-robotic, repetitive aerobic exercise. But these qualities also belong to a Zumba class or set of DVDs. Moreover, one of the last two dance could provide more specific instructions. In this case, the instructions or the text is minimal even know how the stages of formation. In the training mode, the lessons are divided into small groups of motions in a particular dance style. In the basic tutorial of calypso, for example, your instructor constructed from a simplified version of a slow and basic step of calypso, gradually adding speed, power, arm movements, and overall progress spicy.

How to remove most successful moves into a routine, which fills up a bar with steps numbered points. As you progress through the steps, you are rewarded with additions to the bottom of the trainer: dancers on the profile, for example, and in the night club room, a light talent. The other places, less glamorous - a factory, a roof, a stage - are unlocked as you complete routines. You can also choose the color of your dark skin, as seen by the camera and displayed on the screen Kinect - if that's more for decoration of visual information, only partially shown and placed at the bottom.

Selecting the main menu items is a less-than-slick Kinect experience (and there is no possibility of using an Xbox 360 controller, instead). Not the scroll button at the bottom of the screen, use, you must hover over the button and hold to grab it, scroll left or right to scroll through menu options, and then hover again, and hold on the item you want to select. It 'too much work for the menu-based motion control, and the work is not done more to enjoy music, Zumba too short cycle repeated endlessly in the menu.

Local multiplayer allows two players to dance together or compete in Time Attack mode Zumba, in which each player receives a bar to complete the case is successful. Two teams of two can compete in shifts. If recognition of the movement were more competent, local multiplayer modes would be a fun addition to the social, competition. But again, the functionality Kinect below what is necessary to do a major upgrade on a interactive exercise video. Online, up to eight players can work together - again, in theory. The reality is less impressive, many times the game managed to get in a match with anyone, either with us, as host or finding a quick match or custom match. With three million copies of the game sold well on all platforms, it is difficult to imagine that there is an Xbox-based player is looking for a Zumba party.

Training calendar is functional, if basic, prescribe a routine weekly schedule according to your choice of courses. These programs range from gentle beginner routines consist of occasional full-on "Zumba glow" for a calendar filled with daily classes of experts. Although you can also customize a program with your choice of routines, the timing is still pretty shallow of a decision to diet fitness of a complete set of dance routines fun, and it lacks, for example , track calories burned.

When the other dance games have created a better experience to customize their own choreography and movement control, Zumba is movement had already been established and embraced all over the world (12 million people are taking lessons on a weekly basis, says the official site) before This game has arrived. It 'a shame that move could work on a better game shape, flaky and difficult to detect in the menu interface in particular, giving a feeling cheap, that no amount of lively Latin rhythms and neon is not window dressing can be replaced.

At higher times and scores more complex the system is often brief, sometimes recording with the green to move in a completely different way of the screen, but more often comes across as frustrating too picky, a good rule to approximate the red-screen .

Non-specific feedback and encouragement, cries ("just for fun!" Or, "You are great!"), Along with a little 'less vague, the text is returned ("Nice feet moving!" O ", the movement of Nice trendy! "). As captions, even if it is more difficult than it should be a Zumba instructor for beginners to imitate. Similarly, the dance routines all, it would be useful for the next move can be called or otherwise indicated on the screen.