Kinectimals | |
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Developer(s) | Frontier Developments |
Publisher(s) | Microsoft Game Studios |
Director(s) | Jonny Watts |
Producer(s) | Michael Brookes |
Designer(s) | Ben Dowie |
Programmer(s) | Matthew Simper |
Artist(s) | John Laws |
Composer(s) | Peter McConnell |
Platform(s) | Xbox 360, Windows Phone, iOS, Android |
Release | Xbox 360
iOS
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Genre(s) | Digital pet |
Mode(s) | Single-player |
Kinectimals is a video game for the Xbox 360 that uses Kinect, with versions also available for various mobile devices.[2][3] In the game players can interact with virtual animals in a manner akin to pets, gameplay includes activities such as teaching tricks to the animal, guiding the animal around an obstacle course, and free-form play.
For Kinectimals on the Xbox 360, a GameFAQs Q&A question titled 'Two players?' Kinectimals is one of the launch titles for Microsoft's hands-free controller, the Kinect sensor. The game falls in line a bit with Nintendo's Nintendogs titles about playing with and taking care of virtual pets. Except here, petting the animal has moved from swiping a stylus across a small screen t. Buy Kinectimals: Now with Bears by Microsoft for Xbox 360 at GameStop. Find release dates, customer reviews, previews, and more. If you’ve already experienced Kinectimals on Kinect for Xbox 360, your phone becomes the key to unlocking five new cubs on your console. Stand-alone mobile game features Kinectimals’ signature visual quality, delightful animation and brand new ways to play with your cub! Kinectimals is irresistibly cute. Not 'flowers and rainbows' cute, but 'brand new puppy playing with a cardboard box' cute. PS4 / PS5; Spider-Man: Miles Morales PS4 / PS5.
The video game is aimed at a young audience, particularly children, and includes eleven different virtual animals all based on wild cats. Kinectimals was developed by Frontier Developments and was a launch title for Kinect.
An add-on, Kinectimals: Bear Island, was released as downloadable content on October 11, 2011, along with Kinectimals: Now with Bears!, a single retail disc that bundles Bear Island with the base game.[4][5] It also includes a FAO Schwarz plush with a scan tag.
Gameplay[edit]
Throughout the game players spend time using the Kinect system to feed, play with, care, and even raise an animal cub. Upon starting the game the player will visit Fur Town, where they choose one of the 6 initial cubs. As they play the game, more cubs can be unlocked. Throughout the game there are 11 cubs. The cat-lemur fairy, Bumble (voiced by Richard Steven Horvitz) guides the player through the game. Players can also use the scan tag to unlock new cubs.
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Kinectimals has received mostly positive reviews. Video game talk show Good Game's two presenters gave the game a 7 and 7.5 out of 10 saying how it was quite fun and that the player's animal would give instant feedback as well most younger gamers would love playing it. Initially they said 'It has a lot more life, energy and fun to it than something like EyePet - there's a lot of sparkle, but I was okay with that.'[17]
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Kinectimals Xbox 360
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- ^'Archived copy'. Archived from the original on January 9, 2012. Retrieved December 14, 2011.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- ^North, Dale (October 20, 2011). 'Review: Kinectimals: Now With Bears'. Destructoid. Retrieved June 26, 2018.
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- ^Thierry Nguyen (November 5, 2010). 'Kinectimals Review for Xbox 360'. 1UP.com. Archived from the original on July 19, 2012. Retrieved December 11, 2010.
- ^Keza MacDonald (November 4, 2010). 'Kinectimals Xbox 360 Review'. Eurogamer.net. Retrieved December 11, 2010.
- ^Annette Gonzalez (November 3, 2010). 'Kinectimals'. Game Informer. Retrieved December 11, 2010.
- ^Kevin VanOrd (November 3, 2010). 'Kinectimals Review for Xbox 360'. Gamespot. Retrieved December 11, 2010.
- ^Matt Cabral (November 4, 2010). 'Kinectimals review'. GamesRadar. Retrieved December 11, 2010.
- ^'Kinectimals Video Game, Review Pod | Video Clip'. GameTrailers.com. November 4, 2010. Retrieved December 11, 2010.
- ^Jack DeVires (November 3, 2010). 'Kinectimals Review'. IGN. Retrieved December 11, 2010.
- ^Alaina Yee (November 4, 2010). 'Kinectimals'. Official Xbox Magazine. Retrieved December 11, 2010.
- ^Stephen Johnson (November 3, 2010). 'Kinectimals Review for Xbox 360'. G4tv.com. Retrieved December 11, 2010.
- ^Bendixsen 6.5/10, O'Donnell 6/10 (November 29, 2010). 'Kinect Round Up Review'. Season 5. Episode 42. ABC Televisionhttp://www.abc.net.au/tv/goodgame/stories/s3079641.htm.Missing or empty
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External links[edit]
Kinectimals Mobile
- Kinectimals Wiki - Kinectimals.info
Kinectimals Pc
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