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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!!

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

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.

This is a great game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 9
Date: September 07, 2006
Author: Amazon User

We just bought this game a week ago. Not a day goes by that I don't work out with it!

Why do I love it?

The game has Cardio, Combat, Tone & Mind Body.

Cardio - the games require you to hit and kick moving orbs on the screen. This is really FUN!

Combat - the games require you to hit and kick things on the screen, but HARD. This is also very fun and gets out any anger or frustration you have.

Tone - Abs, lower body, upper body, arms... - I've only done the abs portion on easy. I've done loads of pilates and crunches and though it starts off easy (for me, I imagine for people that haven't done a lot of abs work should probably take it easy) and works up to some really HARD abs stuff.

Mind Body - These are fun stretching, tai chi, etc. games. Games, yes, and you have to break the orbs, or followi them, etc.
Very fun.

You can have a personal trainer in either Anna or Matt (I have Anna, my husband has Matt) and do a 12 week personal trainer workout that gives you days off.

There is also Routine Builder and you build routines if you wish.

I do both, the personal trainer mode and the routine builder mode. On my days off from the personal trainer, I do several cardio routines sprinkled throughout the day.

The warm up on the eyetoy is great. The stretch after is also nice.

What I like more about this game, rather than Yourself Fitness is that you are not doing jumping jacks and jumps. I have a really hard time with them, and YF doesn't have a skip (yet). Also, with this game the game doesn't have to test you. It knows how well you are doing (ie, because of the camera). On YF you have to constantly take hard physical exams which require you to do jumping jacks and interrupt you if you want to just do the exercise for the day.

So, I really really LOVE eyetoy kinetic!

Makes you forget your working out!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 8
Date: March 15, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I like most people have always struggled with exercising, I would get bored riding the bike, hated running, no time for the gym. but I also know that I need to exercise, so when I saw this being advertised I was instantly arroused.
This product is awsome, it does what no other exercise product has been able to do and that is get you to forget that you are working out, it gives a good workout and in the trainer mode it offers plenty of variety so that one doent get bored.
It is also great to see my kids moving and getting exercise on those rainy video game type days and they love it, asking to play this game over the others in their collection.
The camera takes some tweaking to get adjusted just right and i suggest tilting it more down towards the floor to get the full effect of the workouts.
This product is what technology is all about!!!!

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.

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!

I had a hard time staying motivated to exercise until Kinetic!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: January 03, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I have problems staying motivated to go workout at the gym on a weekly basis. The motivation wasn't consistent for me, because I get bored easily doing the same things: riding a stationary bike, treadmill, precor machine, etc. With Kinetic, however, I'm having fun playing this "game", but I'm really getting some good exercise in!

I'm currently on week three of Personal Trainer mode. The first two weeks were fairly easy for me. I can tell, however, that the workouts are getting harder as I am sweating more and breathing hard, and the next day, I can feel the burn in my legs from all the squatting and kicking certain games entail, and my arms are sore, too, from all the punching.

One thing I think is missing from the game is the game not telling you proper form. Yes, you're punching and kicking like there's no tomorrow, but you risk getting injured if you don't know how to punch or kick correctly.

The yoga exercise, too, is great IF you've had yoga instruction before by a yoga instructor. For someone who has never done yoga before, they may find this difficult, or they will most likely not be using proper form. Same with the Tai Chi. I've never done Tai Chi before, so trying to follow this part of the game was pretty hard for me, even with all the camera angles the game shows. I would probably have to take a Tai Chi class somewhere to know what the heck I'm really doing.

Another thing that bothered me was the loading time in between the workouts. I guess it's good for those that need a good break in between to grab some water, but I just want to get into the groove and keep going back to back non-stop for a fluid exercise routine.

Overall, believe it, or not, I look forward to turning the game on to see when I'm scheduled for my next workout. That's how motivated I am now after buying Kinetic.

If you have enough room to play this game in, the lighting works out for you, and if you want to lose some weight and have fun at the same time without joining a gym or a sports team, Eyetoy Kinetic is the game to play! Of course, you only get out of it what you put into it. Don't forget to also watch what you eat!

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.

Excellent game! Needs better camera.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: February 11, 2006
Author: Amazon User

What many of the other reviewer's have said about the camera is true. Unfortunately it's just not sensitive enough. I got the game home very excited to try it out. I threw the game in the PS2, and got ready to see what it could do. To my disappointment, it wouldn't notice my movements. In order to get the game to work properly, we had to move the PS2 downstairs, move everything out of the way so we had enough space, hang a white sheet in the back of the room, turn a floor lamp sideways; much like a spotlight, and wear black clothing. If you're comfortable with doing these types of steps to get the game to work, it's really a game to try out. The workouts are fantastic, and the excercise routines are really fun. You can see yourself on TV hitting objects, and dodging others. It was very much worth the money. I just wish the camera would more sensitive. Overall, excellent product.

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