A gaming adventure you don't play seated.
Kinect Adventures! is an adventure-themed sports game developed by Xbox Game Studios for the Xbox 360 Kinect. The game was released on November 4, 2010 in North America as one of the pack-in games for the Kinect sensor.The game consists of a series of five minigames each with an adventure theme: 20,000 Leaks, River Rush, Rally Ball, Reflex Ridge, and Space Pop. The player earns medals by competing in each of the games with the ultimate goal of winning the most medals.
Tropes found in the game:
- Casual Video Game: The game is a collection of five minigame that are very easy to play.
- Exergaming: Five minigames revolving around adventure sports where the player uses their full body for play and no controllers.
- Jungle Japes: This is the setting of the "River Rush" and "Reflex Ridge" games.
- Minecart Madness: "Reflex Ridge" takes place on a moving platform with the player needing to limbo over high beams, jump over low beams, and lean left to right to avoid beams on the side and collect items. The player can jump to speed up the minecart.
- Minigame Game: Five minigames, all with an adventure theme.
- Seal the Breach: The goal of "20,000 Leaks" is for the player to move to seal holes made in the cube by animals like swordfish.
- Shout-Out:
- The name 20,000 Leaks is a reference to the novel 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.
- Two of the score ratings the player can get after playing "Space Pop" are "One Small Step" and "One Giant Leap".
- Space Zone: The setting of "Space Pop" is a zero-gravity room floating in space.
- Tech-Demo Game: The game was a pack-in for the Kinect and shows how the sensor can be used to get an entire body into the game.
- Under the Sea: The setting of the "20,000 Leaks" game. The player is inside of a large glass cube underwater as they play the game.
