Fruit Ninja Kinect Review Round-Up

Fruit Ninja Kinect hits the Xbox Live marketplace tomorrow for 800 points as part of the summer of arcade, and it looks like it is certainly worth checking out.

Praised for its responsive and precise controls and its simple, fast and addictive gameplay, the positive reviews are pouring in.

[Fruit Ninja Kinect is] so chock-full of clever ideas and satisfyingly tight controls that it very nearly circles back around to pure genius. It doesn't just set a high bar for the flock of touch-based apps which will almost certainly follow in its footsteps to the Kinect platform -- it sets a pretty intimidating precedent for the platform altogether - Joystiq

The core concept of Fruit Ninja crosses over intact to Kinect with multiplayer that's fun with friends. Even when my arms get tired and I have enough for the day, the game entices me to play one more session to try raise my score. Sure, Fruit Ninja Kinect is a shallow experience at heart, and there's not much game here -- but it also holds up as one of the most fun and addicting Kinect games I've played so far - 1UP

If you've any concerns about the accuracy of Microsoft's Kinect and potential irritations, squash them right now. Whatever magic Halfbrick has harnessed needs to be shared with other developers; Fruit Ninja Kinect's feeling of one-to-one accuracy is a triumph - Desctructoid

Price is the main criticism. Both a lack of content, and the fact that it is a port of a $0.99 mobile game. We think this is a little unfair -- porting a touch game to Kinect alone is no small effort. Getting it to work as well as they have with new modes, multiplayer and all new graphics shows that Half-Brick have put the effort in. What could have been a half-assed port clearly isn't.

If you are concerned about the price, you may be happy to know that if you're planning on buying The Gunstringer next month (at the already reduced price of £29.99 ($40)), it comes packaged with Fruit Ninja Kinect for free.

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The Gunstringer Launching at Reduced Price, Packaged with Fruit Ninja Kinect and Free DLC

We recently brought you news that Twisted Pixels upcoming Kinect puppet shooter, The Gunstringer, will be hitting retail stores rather than Xbox Live Arcade as previously planned. Many worried online that the increase in price might not necessarily result in an increase in gameplay. Well, we can't say for sure how much value you'll get out of The Gunstringer alone until we've played it in full ourselves, but they're certainly working hard to make the game more desirable at a retail price point.

The game will launch on September 13th in the US, Australia and Asia and the 16th in Europe at a discounted price of £29.99 ($40). Not only that, but it will come with a code to download Fruit Ninja Kinect for free, an otherwise 800 point ($10) Live Arcade purchase.

They're also throwing in some free DLC right off the bat making the games' price hike even easier to swallow. "The Wavy Tube Man Chronicles" sees you play the son of The Wavy Tube Man (see left), attempting to save your fathers life via a stolen time machine. Just your average day in the Wild West.


Still not satisfied? Well pre-order now and you'll also get yourself an Avatar prop. Can't say fairer than that, really.

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