It's pretty scary the first time Rise of Nightmares gets up in your face, spitting acid and snarling. But then you get a grip on it, look deeper, and realize that there's no intelligence behind its eyes, just a bundle of remembered impulses.

After a short prologue in which your character dies by being squished in an Indiana Jones-esque closing wall trap, you take on the main role of Josh, vacationing in Romania with his wife Kate, hoping to fix a somewhat strained relationship.

Just as we thought Kinect was about to get its first AAA title, Rise of Nightmares arrives on the scene with a little more than a whimper. It never seems to truly realise the potential of Kinect, instead implementing mechanics that are best served mapped to a traditional controller (including the...

A Nightmare You Can Forget

Cheese before bedtime.

Hey grown-ups, at long last and long overdue comes a game designed specifically for the Kinect motion control system camera thing that's aimed right at you. You can tell because it carries an 18 certificate from the British Board of Film Classification despite it not being a film.

Perhaps it's greatest feat is in convincing us that, just maybe, the Kinect device will never be able to do anything more sophisticated than waving your hands around and sidestepping to beat a boss.

Sega tries to reinvent the arcade shooter with Kinect. The result? Hmm.

Good use of Kinect; Later weapons are good fun

Average story; poor audio; best moments in game are saved right to the end

With Rise Of Nightmares we finally get a game for Kinect that isn't meant for kids or people who have never had a controller in their hands. We were crossing our fingers for Sega as the motion controller hasn't really been living up to the hype up to now, not taking into account Dance Central and...

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