August 13, 2011

Gorillas (along with human body builders – one of the biggest apes on planet of the apes aka Earth) very rarely drink water. How, or rather why, do they do it? By eating a lot of fruits, and thus quenching their thirst! One can satisfy many needs with fruits: apart from water they contain plenty of healthy vitamins, minerals, etc. But the latest craze is the game, Fruit Ninja, available for a long time for smartphones (with capitative display as it requires very fast responsiveness). And been a very big hit there.

Now this ultra-popular smartphone game, Fruit Ninja, has been released for Kinect for Xbox. Meet Fruit Ninja Kinect!

Fruit Ninja Kinect for Xbox is not available boxed (i.e. as physical DVD) but only as a download, available via summer arcade hits.

It’s available for 800 Microsoft points (which is roughly 10 US dollars or 10 euros in West Asia).

The size of the game is only 140 MB.

It installs to your Xbox’s hard disk to game library. Unfortunately, probably like other “light” arcade games the maximum number of Xbox Live points you can score with this game is only 200 (compared to 1000 of “big” boxed DVD-included or multiple-GB games).

This game also has a rather small number of 12 game achievements to unlock:

2 main modes are “classic” and “arcade.”

Classic mode is simpler to play and gives you more time, but arcade mode is more difficult. There is also the even more easy going “zen mode” and party mode with ability for 2 people to play the game at the same time.

When you play the game, the Japanese-looking (although all programmers listed in credits are white Americans) character gives you wisdoms about fruits.

So, what is the game play? You stand in front of your Xbox Kinect, controller-less, and you move your hands to slice fruits that are being thrown up in the air:

And that’s it! Simples, isn’t it? Well, apart from time limits, another difficulty are bombs that are being thrown too and you have to avoid slicing bombs because if you slice them, they explode and decrease number of your points.

As you can see in the screen shot at the very top of this article, while playing you see the silhouette of your body (rather than avatar of yourself as in some other Kinect games) so you can observe “visual force feedback” that can give you more precision in fruit slicing.

Conclusion: for a very low price you get a very pleasant to play game that has no evil background (like hitting or killing somebody) but just innocent fruit slicing. This game is pure fun and you know what? If you don’t have Xbox Kinect yet, maybe now it’s time to get it. After all gorillas like fruits for a reason…

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