We've heard so much about the significantly enhanced Kinect sensor with the Xbox One - what with its improved motion-sensing accuracy and higher-resolution camera - but you wouldn't know that anything had changed based on playing Fighter Within .

- Kinect often fails to recognize more complex maneuvers; - Cinematic-heavy matches are stilted; repetitive; and boring; - Terrible dialogue; story; and characters - everything; really; ?

It didn't take long before the phrase "Kinect Required" became a death sentence for any new game that tried to implement the device on the Xbox 360; especially when it was the ONLY way to play the game.

Positives Amusing when it works two out of ten tries

Negatives At its core - the core being KINECT - the game simply doesn't work; Toss on a weak story, poor voice acting and awkward multiplayer

Concept: Look like an idiot without any payoff whatsoever Graphics: Someone had access to the Fighting Character Stereotype bingo hopper Sound: The quality of the VO matches that of the gameplay Playability: You can't do anything you want to do Entertainment: There is no reason you should ever play...

Kinect action is not as fast as actually shown in demo.

This is a Kinect-only brawler that offers players a chance to pummel their opponents into submission with their bare hands, in theory at least. The reality, however, is far less appealing than the premise.

In the seventh console generation we saw an increased focus on motion controls, but the hardware just wasn't capable of the 1:1 translation from movement to screen that gamers would expect, and many games required.

This game is gorgeous

Everything else

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

Don't buy this game. It's cheap for a reason, it's useless. Read the detailed review on Gamespot or ign site. Game play is not good, unresponsive Kinect controls.

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

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.