Common Sense Media Review
By Christopher Healy
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based on child development research. How do we rate?
Real kicks and punches feel extra aggressive on Kinect.
Parents Need to Know
Why Age 14+?
Any Positive Content?
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Fighters Uncaged
What's It About?
FIGHTERS UNCAGED puts you in the role of a rookie in an illegal streetfighting league. You'll start off sparring with a trainer, but soon move on to hand-to-hand back-alley match-ups against a slew of rough-and-tumble brawlers. With the Kinect system, you fight by throwing real punches and kicks, bobbing around to dodge, sweeping your leg to trip people, thrusting forward to headbutt, etc.
Is It Any Good?
Using the full-body fighting system to control your character in Fighters Uncaged is definitely an interesting and unique experience. It can also make you feel very aggressive as you play, which can be a bad thing for kids in a number of different ways. Looking at the game from a technical standpoint, though, the fighting system feels pretty realistic and works well. As the first fighting game to use Kinect, Fighters Uncaged succeeds in taking the genre to a new level. Some poor choices were made in the game's set-up, though. The biggest flaw is the way it makes you battle the same opponents over and over and over again. The tedious task of fighting and re-righting the same enemies in order to collect enough "crowns" to move up to the next tier of fighters may make you grow tired of the game, when it should be the very physical fighting controls that tire you out.
Talk to Your Kids About ...
Families can talk about fighting with the Kinect system. How is throwing a real punch different from pressing a button to make a character punch? Does this system make the violence feel more real? Is there any way in which that can be a good thing?
This is a very physical game. Do you think that playing it will give you enough exercise? Or do you think you should still get more physical activity throughout the day?
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