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Kinect Sports Rivals will be released in April

We finally have a release date for KSR. Looks like it will hit Xbox One on April 8th in North America, Australia, and New Zealand, and April 11 in Europe.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/02/12/kinect-sports-rivals-release-date-announced

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Adding the new "Introducing the Kinect Sports Rivals Teams" trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvWZfzmRaLw
 
Good news! Pretty cool that there are three factions in the game too. With the island design as well it seems like this is much more fleshed out offering than the previous Kinect Sports games.
 
Nice!

Do we know if 4 player split screen is supported or not? I know 2 player split screen is in the preseason.


Yeah, I believe that has been confirmed for at least wave racing.

Negative - it was in there in a very old debug build, but has now been removed.

Consider your bubble burst,
 
I tend to give the Xbone a lot of grief, but I must say that I've quite enjoyed the Kinect Sports games. I still play a fair amount of the golf and soccer games.

Edit: Holy shit at that character design. What were they thinking?
 
Cool, I like that Wave Race preview they put out. I'd like to see what new things they are going to add to it.
 
I'm not gonna lie, the character creation tool using Kinect I saw in a walkthrough video looked pretty cool. It should be interesting to see just how good/accurate it is capturing facial features and all that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fZTY8EyQH8

Of course after I create my character, I'm turning the Kinect off and picking up a controller; hopefully all of the events support it.
 
Pretty excited for this. It's crazy that it's going to be this far out from launch but hopefully that time allowed them to make it bigger than expected.
 
Controller support? No thank you. I hate when developers try to shoehorn in controller support in motion controlled games.
 
Yay for release date! Smh at those expecting controller support in KINECT Sports Rivals.
Spencer confirmed it a while back.
 
The character creation in this game is insane. I gotta say, Rare gets more flak than they deserve. This game looks pretty solid, especially for a kinect game!
 
The characters in the title picture are way too extreme and the ones in the island tour video are way too low key and mundane lol
 
So is this game going to be any good for losing weight?

Do the activities expect a full range of motion (i.e. feet and upper torso)? And is there enough variety and depth to sustain extended play?

Or is it going to be a novelty party game that you trot out when friends are around?
 
I think he is referring to my question about 4 player split screen, not controller support :p

Your bubble still has some hope left in it!

Nope - no idea on Splitscreen.

THERE IS NO CONTROLLER SUPPORT FOR ANY OF THE "SPORTS"

It was there on the Xbox One Tour, but it was a debug mode, and is no longer available.
 
So is this game going to be any good for losing weight?

Do the activities expect a full range of motion (i.e. feet and upper torso)? And is there enough variety and depth to sustain extended play?

Or is it going to be a novelty party game that you trot out when friends are around?

Have you played the first one?

I think the general rule is, if you're moderately to very active, doing the motions in this game will only help out a little. Not much. If you're mostly sedentary then it would be a pretty great factor to have.
 
Nice. This game has great graphical fidelity. I hope MS gives Rare a chance to make a non-Kinect game sometime so they can really flex their engine in a different way.
 
Nice. This game has great graphical fidelity. I hope MS gives Rare a chance to make a non-Kinect game sometime so they can really flex their engine in a different way.

Something about the characters reminds me of Nuts & Bolts. Would love to see a new Banjo game with this kind of graphics fidelity.
 
NICE. The first two Kinect sports games were really good. Been hyped for Rivals since it's reveal. Bowling is going to be glorious.
 
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