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Fun game to give you a good workout!!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 60 / 60
Date: November 26, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The game has 4 major elements: Cardio, Combat, Toning and 'Mind and Body'. The cardio and combat sections of the game are marvelous with lots of fun elements. The mini-games (in the combat and cardio sections) are 10 minutes each. Even the easiest level can get you huffing and puffing with lots of sweat. You are tested on your reflexes as well as precision. I don't know much about the strength part in the combat games because I kind of cheated by moving very very rapidly.

Just like what the company describes, you can set your own workout profile. It's as if you have your own personal trainer.

However, Sony needs to work out the kinks of the Eye Toy hardware. Our living room is quite comfortably sized for a couple with 2 cats, but Eye Toy doesn't think so. There is a distance of 7 feet between the TV and the couch, and the Eye Toy still doesn't think you have enough room. Unfortunately, Eye Toy isn't quite for apartment dwellers unless you mount the Eye Toy on the wall.

Lightings is another problem. The room needs to be EVENLY lit or else you'd have a hard time reaching one side of the screen. Setting the camera for 'dim room' helps tremendously. The camera sensitivity should set to Medium or even Low. I accidentally set it on High, and I saw my furniture playing the game with me.

Nonetheless, if you have a decent sized living room, and if you can get the camera working right, this game is AWESOME!!

Revolutionary.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 13 / 13
Date: November 26, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I own five games for Eye Toy, the majority of the Eye Toy collection.

This might be the best use of this technology thus far. Fun, exhausting and highly customizable. There are thousands of ways to play this game. Each exercise has its own unique choice of music and an initial difficulty level that automatically increases as you progress through the routine. Entire guided fitness plans are created for each player after series of questions. It even snaps progress photos as you complete your plan.

In addition as the camera, a wide-angle lense is included to accomodate an entire body workout. After your body and a Playstation, everything you need is included. This is more than a game, it is a revolutionary exploration into what video games can do for us.

Per usual, while the Eye Toy does require a rather bright room to function well, a standard two-bulb overhead fixture works fine. If you really want the full Eye Toy experience, I would reccommend this game, as well as Antigrav.

Great Program if you have a big living room.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 10 / 13
Date: November 27, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I think this product is phenomenol... I set it up and started playing, only problem is that I found my living room is a bit too tiny. I had to move all of my furniture!! You need a large living room to play!

GREAT GREAT GREAT

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 11
Date: November 29, 2005
Author: Amazon User

In case your new to the ps2 eye toy. It is one cool toy. THis is the perfect entry into the eye toy market as well. Kenetic is lots of fun, and you get a great workout. Best of all, you get feedback as to how well you are doing. I am talking stats as to how well you performed today and relative to other outings. All in all it is a great purchase. The camera is placed on top of your tv, and then projects your image onto the screen. Throughout the game you have to do various tasks with your body to move objects around on the screen. This is worth it if you are looking for a solid title for the eye toy, or if you are just looking for a great workout.

fun for hours escpecially just watching someone do it

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 19 / 20
Date: December 02, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Over all the game has a very sweet idea to it play games and excercise at the same time. when you buy this title you wont be able to wait till you get home.

as soon as you start you build a profile your height, weight , age and how active you are. After you select your personal trainer they will set up a routine for you. mine was set up for advanced the first week i had a routine on Wed/Thu Fri/Sat Sun/Mon which seems like a lot of work but the excercises range from 4-10 minutes long each routine had only three excercise's though. if you dont want to go that route and want to just start playing you can build a routine. you routines will consist of either Combat, toning, mind and body , or Cardio. For those of you who think this product wont work i play football and baseball and the cardio workouts will get you winded and sweating,provided you dont cheat. And even if you think you are pretty warmed up beleive me you probably aren't. Like on the combat i swung at A Target and hit it but since you are swinging at air if you think you can just throw a haymaker right of the bat you cant, i thought i threw my arm out tyring to swing at that thing. Some of the problems are that you need to have quite a bit of room , and it needs to be pretty will lit. in some cases a had to wrap a shirt around my fist for the camera to pick it up. If you have a lamp or two close by just turn them on this should help.

Pros. 1. Burns calories
2. Fun and entertainiing for the whole family even mom and pops
3. Actually pretty challenging.
4. actually measures how hard you hit the object
5. ther are many more i jsut cant list them all

Cons. 1. need to have a pretty good sized area
2. needs to be well lit
3. and a few more little things but nothing major

Kinetic Review

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 10 / 20
Date: December 15, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I consider myself tech savy. I also consider myself open to new ideas. Thats why when I heard about this product I was intrigued in that it pormised a new and innovative way to work out.

That was the theory behind the product anyway. The program itself is fine. The problem that for the product to be effective as a whole there needs to be seemless integration with the hardware-the eye toy. Plainly spoken, the eye toy does not have the sensitivity and accuracy to pull this off. I have followed the instructions exactly and have experimented many hours on the lighting and also changing the background so that it may improve its performance-without much success.
In execution, this turns this product into a excercie in frustration. Do yourself a favor, don't buy this. If you want a good program consider yourself! fitness. I have used that product for months now. It is very effective and elegantly executed.

Just excellent

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: December 28, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This is the best thing to hit PS2. I despise working out, but got the Eyetoy Kinetic as a gift and decided to give it a shot- and I am NOT sorry I did. I love games and being competetive and this was not like a workout routine, it was a game. You don't realize how many muscles you've used until you wake up the next morning.

I had minor issues at first with the Eyetoy itself, getting the lighting right. If you're having space issues, make sure to put on the lens that comes with the game. If you're having lighting issues, follow what it says in the manual- a 60 to 100 watt bulb between you and the camera works perfectly. Of course it can use a little work, but I don't know of any technology that couldn't. For me, it served its purpose and just took a little bit of time to tweak.

fun effective workout

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: December 29, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I just got this game and think it is great. I haven't tried all the workout areas yet, but the ones I did made me feel it. Be prepared to spend a bit of time adjusting the camera settings, and if your room is small shove the furniture out of the way to set it up. I like the performance graping features and other ways to evaluate your workout. Great if you want someting more interactive than a regular exercise video, but down want to sign up and pay for classes at a gym.

Great workout...once you get the camera figured out

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: December 29, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I got this for Christmas and started the 12 week program yesterday after trying some of the individual routines. I'm actually a little sore today. I spent a lot of time experimenting with the camera position and lighting, but eventually got it to work. I had to use the dim room setting, set the camera sensitivity to low and like other reviewers said, you really do need a large room to do this. This might actually be a workout that I can stick with (I get bored easily). The routines are varied and they feel more like games than exercise. I would definitely (and already have) recommend this to friends.

A good workout, just hard to pull off

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: December 30, 2005
Author: Amazon User

A well thought out game with fun activities that DO give you a work out, is over-shadowed by the devil of all Eye Toy games: lighting.
The game requires your whole body to be in the screen to complete most of the activities. This is seemingly impossible for someone with a small and crowded house (such as mine.) And when you do finally get to a comfortable position, there's the issue of the lighting. The whole room has to be filled with light, otherwise the sensors won't pick your movements up.
While most of the games are reasonably do-able, some are not. Some games in the Mind and Body zone are more frustrating than in the Combat zone, and end up doing the exact opposite of what they're supposed to do.
But, once you do get adjusted it is a fairly good workout program. It also includes how many calories you've burned, a progess chart, a heart rate feature, and a weekly work out planner.
Over all, it's a decent game once you get past the downsides of it.

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