Aside from the very basics of punching and kicking, nothing in The works well, and very little works at all. It's gesture recognition is abysmal, its fighting is shallow, and it wastes too much time trying to clumsily tell a silly, unnecessary story.

Punching functions well

Painful menu navigation; Disjointed gameplay; Laughable story; Terrible AI

The last time I played a motion based fighter game on the Kinect was a little over a year ago when I flailed away to Ubisoft's Marvel Avengers: Battle for Earth for the Xbox 360 Kinect.

If Ubisoft's latest is in any way indicative of the fighter within most of us, then whatever you do, please don't let them out. As may have been obvious already, this Kinect and Xbox One-exclusive fighting game is everything you'd expect it to be and less.

And developer Daoka has good ideas, in introducing a motion-control fighting game to show off the newly revamped Kinect hardware. But Fighter Within struggles to live up to that promise, with rampant technical issues and iffy writing.

Why Do We Keep Fighting

A bad game and a very poor start for next generation Kinect games, even if there is still some small cause for optimism beneath the bland fighting action.

Most of the simpler controls do work quite reliably; The graphics are technically decent, even if the art style is offensively bland

A terrible fighting game, with not an ounce of originality and horribly uninteresting characters and specials; More advanced moves either don't work or are barely interactive

Fighter Within is everything that is wrong with Kinect games. It applies a horrible story, broken controls and an infuriatingly unresponsive menu to a fun idea. Nothing in Fighter Within works well, and much of it doesn't work at all.

+ Flailing punches is fairly successful

- Everything else is broken; - Menu doesn't work; - Lack of content; - Terrible story

Fighter Within could have had potential, if more work had gone into the gesture recognition and making the Kinect actions translate into the game world, but as it stands it feels like a lazy game that's been rushed out to hit the Xbox One's launch date.

There are so many things wrong with Fighter Within it's impossible to keep count. The first thing you notice is the gesture recognition. Kinect struggles to comprehend the most basic of hand movements.

It's impossible to look cool playing Fighter Within. I'm not talking about a high standard of cool either, like the Fonz banging on a jukebox. No, while playing Fighters Within, you will look less cool than some pantless schlub who barely resembles a functional member of society.

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Slow; shallow combat; Painful dialogue; Bland characters and arenas; Excruciating loading times; Quickly devolves into the Kinect equivalent of button mashing