In Rally Ball, players will be using their whole body to attempt to keep the ball in play as they work against a timer trying to clear the stage. Rally Ball can best be described as a human version of the arcade classic Breakout where your body is the paddle. One of the first Kinect demos to be shown was Rally Ball and it is no surprise that it makes an appearance in Kinect Adventures.
There are five different mini-games to partake in and for the most part, they all work quite well.
Awkwardness aside though it is different than your standard sports title and that is enough to make it stand out. I suppose calling it Kinect Adventures makes far more sense than Randomly Strewn Together Motion Games but the whole adventure aspect of the title just feels a bit awkward. These adventures are actually just a series of motion centric mini-games with a weird adventure motif thrown over the top of them. Kinect Adventures tasks players with going on adventures. The second reason is that it bucks the trend and avoids direct comparisons to Wii Sports. Simply put Kinect Adventures works and as a show piece to get families interested in the device it does its job admirably well. The first and most important reason is that it works, quite well and as a tech demo for the system. I can think of a few reasons why Microsoft chose Kinect Adventures to come with their system. Sony went the conventional route choosing to launch the Sony Move with Sports Champions, Microsoft on the other hand decided to buck the sports mini-game pack in trend and has launched their motion device, the Kinect, with Kinect Adventures. Now, four years later, both Sony and Microsoft are tasked with proving to people that their motion tech works and both have chosen games to launch alongside their systems. For the longest time, pack in games had become a thing of the past and then the Wii launched and to entice people to buy their product Nintendo packaged it with what would quickly become a cultural phenomenon, Wii Sports.
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