miCoach by Adidas - Xbox 360

This is an excellent game. The beginning clip is inspiring. The selection of coaches based on real life atheletes is wonderful. The exercises are well chosen and the beginner level doesn't leave me sore the next day. The web site is OK I guess, but I haven't really used it.The problem is that some of the menus are very picky. I have to swipe my arm just so, to get to the next stage. There does not seem to be a controller button as a workaround. So I find myself swiping, swiping, swiping, swiping, and although that is not bad to exercise very specific muscles in my right arm, I'm worried about repetitive stress injury. I would prefer to get back to the actual exercise program.

I really want to give it one star but based on the fact that I am still using it, I give it two star. There is a reason this game's price droped a lot only after weeks of being released.It has the worst navigation menue I have ever seen. Very hard to control and makes a lot of mistakes. As others said, you have to put your hand on up or down to move the menue up and down, once on the item you want to chooes, you slide your right hand to select. However, once you move it up and down and find what you want, you'd better move your hand away from the up or down immeidately, and then slide. Otherwise, it will just keep going up or down. To makes it worse, unlike other games when you go through one workout after another with no control required between, this game stops after every workout and ask you if you want to go to next exercies or skip. And you have to go through the headache up, down, select menue again. 50 % of times, you will mess up with the menue. In the end, you will spend more time standing there playing with the menue than doing workout. To makes it even worse, when you slide your left hand, it means quit. I have a coffe table on my right and put my water there. Evertime I turn to right to grab my water using my right hand, my left arm just hangs on my side but will of course turn with my body to the right. The sysmte catches it as a left hand slide and ask me if I want to quit. My left hand was about waist high and I did not lift my left arm. How can you call it a slide? Then, there again, the headache up, down, select menue for yes or no. You'd better be very very carefull this time. If you mess up, you are quited. In yesterday's workout, I accidently quited once, skipped once and messed up the menue tons of times.For a program that cannot even catch the correct menue selection movement, how do you expect it to catch the more complex, workout movement? I have used, EA acitive, biggest loser, your shaper, UFC and this game had the worst workout movement recognition. Some workouts are better, some workouts are worse and some never. For some workouts, it only counts time not how many but it stops timmer when it thinks you are not doing the right thing. You have to stare at the screen to see if it counts, otherwise, you will propably do pushups until you die because it will never count to 20s. So I have to always turn my head to my TV when I am not supposed to. Have you ever seen someone doing push up with head turning to the left for the entire time? Is it a correct puch up position?The only good thing of this game, which is the only reason I am still using it is, the workouts are fun and I have never seen most of them. A good workout program is supposed to let you do something new evertime to let you be motivated. This is not Adidas's problem and I really like these workouts. It is the wrong game company they chose to work with and that really destroyed its name.Right now, I just use it as a DVD. If it asks me to do eight, I will just do eight and then skip. If it asks me to do 20s, I will do 12 or 15 then skip as it not convenient to use a watch. I just wish they make a DVD with the same content so that I do not have to go through the selection menue and I will know how long 20s will be.Shame on 505.

product came exactly as expected

There is a reason why this is so much cheaper than other similar products on the market. It is terrible. Here's why:- The motion tracking does not work. It doesn't matter how well lit the room is, where the kinect sensor is, or how many times you calibrate it. It will not see you doing bicep curls, and it will not see you do most floor exercises. When it does register you do the maneuver, it is because you're actually not doing it, but moving to the ground to get into position to do it. Then you waste 5-10 reps trying to get the game to recognize that you're doing it correctly. On multiple occasions, the system has started tracking my balance ball as a human. The balance ball doesn't have arms, so it cannot move things on the menu. See next point.- The menu system is terrible. You have to hold your right arm out and then swipe your entire arm to the left across your body to select something. You also have to move your arm up and down to move the menu selection up and down. Moving your arm up and down will always move the menu too far up and down, so you select the wrong thing. The menu item for 'skip this' is directly beneath the 'select this' option. When you're moving from the ground to your feet, the system will incorrectly see you move the menu down to 'skip this' and incorrect select that option, skipping that next maneuver. You cannot go back to the skipped item once skipped.- You cannot sync your workouts to the micoach.com website. This was the entire reason I purchased this game. You will get a 'sync failed' message when trying to sync your routines with micoach.com. The micoach.com site is also broken so that you cannot disconnect your game once you've added it (which is how they they tell you to fix the problem). Also, the 'contact support' links do not work. They generate an error instead of submitting your problem.- The game is slow and difficult to actually get an aerobic workout from it. After doing a maneuver, you stand around for 45-60 seconds while the game decides to go onto the next action. There is so much down time, that a '45 minute' workout actually takes 60-70 minutes.- The game is very repetitive. The coaches same the same things over and over again.- The voice commands are annoying, and often do not work. They also pick up on grunting. I've had the game skip and activity because it thought my grunts during triceps extensions were me telling it 'micoach' followed by 'skip this'. When you do want it to hear you, it is slow to respond, and acts like you said nothing.The two biggest problems with this game are the lack of syncing to micoach.com and the terrible motion tracking. I could deal with the terrible motion tracking if I could get the game to recognize me telling it to skip the activity accurately. The micoach.com website issues are a deal breaker for me.

I like the game itself... It varies excercises, it makes you sweat a lot. I had a lot of trouble synching with the website, but that has nothing to do with the workouts, but it's the reason I don't give it 5 stars. Also you need additional equipment if you don't have a stability ball, a tennis ball and dumbells.

This game would be great if there weren't so many issues. Despite recallibrating many times, it often would not "see" me, so that my movements didn't count. You feel a little defeated when it would ask you if you want to move on and tell you, you'll do better next time. So very frustrating! The swiping to select was also very frustrating. It would be either too sensitive and move to fast so that the wrong thing was selected or it wouldn't sense you at all.The exercises themselves were fine. When I could get it to work, I got a decent workout.

i think the worse part about this is being forced to write something when i don't want to... I like my purchase, if i didnt i would not have purchased it.. that is all

The game cd send to me was not compatible with indian region. So returned the product without getting any experience. Can't give any rating may be game is good but cd is wrong.