"Does the Kinect stuff work well?" That's the question that matters most for Kinect Sports Rivals . The sports, the leaderboards, -- it's all for nothing if the main motions of swinging a racket or scaling a cliff don't feel good. Fortunately, they do, most of the time.

Great use of Kinect; Good variety of games; Straight to the action

Poor soccer controls; Multiplayer lag issues

Kinect Sports Rivals arrives as an important exclusive title for the first year of the Xbox One, produced by the seminal developer Rare and carrying the flag of the Xbox brand. While it undoubtedly looks terrific and is delightfully fun in sections, the overall package is a bit too hit and miss to...

Charming art style; Lots of customization options

Small rooms are a non-starter; Unskippable cutscenes

Ever since I picked up my Xbox One console, bundled with the new and improved Kinect 2.0, I've been excited to see where developers will be able to go with the new hardware. The new Kinect is an impressive piece of machinery.

This motion-controlled sports game is pretty meh. The variety is nice, but there are a few issues, beginning with menu screens that can be difficult to control using your hands. Creating an avatar based on your likeness seems fun to start, but the results can be somewhat random.

Kinect Sports Rivals is the follow-up to Xbox 360's two Kinect Sports titles, which tried and failed to do for Microsoft's motion control camera what Wii Sports did for Wii. The games reportedly sold well, but didn't do much to establish Kinect as a must-buy peripheral.

Kinect Sports Rivals is the biggest next gen video game release of the year. This is the game that shows what the Xbox One, and the new Kinect sensor can do. Kinect Sports Rivals impresses right out of the gate. It scans your face and provided a video game representation.

While there is Skype, Xbox Fitness, signing in with your face, scanning QR codes or using your voice to navigate, there haven't been any (meaningful) game reasons to use your Kinect 2.0 on the Xbox One.

If you don't like Kinect there isn't near enough here to change your mind. If you enjoy Kinect, this is a solid enough game to get started on in a new generation of gaming with Xbox One.

At the time of writing, there isn't really anything on the Xbox One to use the bundled Kinect device for, in terms of software at least. There are voice commands, which work most of the time, and it's also a neat IR blaster, so it turns on the TV when you turn the Xbox on, but the attempts that have...

Technically speaking Kinect Sports Rivals is a far better Kinect experience than the previous two entries. But even with that, the game still feels like an under realized experience.