Your Shape: Fitness Evolved 2012 - Xbox 360

I bought this game to use the Kinect instead of going to the gym and wanted this to be like my personal trainer. I also like Tai Chi and it has a great Yoga and Zen exercise programs that actually scan your body to make sure you are doing the poses right and gives you audio feedback. There is also an objectives module that helps you set up a personal plan and encourages you to stick with it. It tells you have much cals youve burned, etc. The only thing that gets a little frustrating is actually learning which exercises to follow after setting up the objective, but you get the hang of it...just think it could be more intuitive. Overall, it's one of the best programs I have for the Kinect.

Lots of fun looking forward to many sessions and new ones

Fun to see yourself on the screen and compete with the computer

I really enjoy this product. i even share with my family and friends!

I bought the Xbox with Kinect primarily for this game, as I know I would never drive all the way to a gym to work out. Instead, you can tell this game what your goal is (e.g. "lose the muffin top") and it will suggest which modules to do, although you can do any modules you want. Modules last from 2-20 minutes, and include some skills games, targeted body areas, dance genres, as well as yoga and tai chi. I like the fact that the sensor can tell if you are in the right position, and will tell you if you need to straighten up, etc. You can input your height and weight so that it can calculate how many calories you burn with each activity, but the totals it comes up with are ridiculously low. None of the activities that come with it are geared for a cool down, so you have to download those for a fee, which I think is sneaky. After all, if there are warm up activities, they should include at least one type of cool down too. This game is part of the Your Fitness app that you can download to keep track of how many calories burned between this and a few other Xbox games. Overall, it is an interesting concept. After one month, I'm not bored with it, and definitely work up a sweat doing it for about a half an hour at a time.

I had the first edition which I thought was great, the 2012 is by far better with the floor workouts. I use this game at least 3 times a week and can't wait to use it sometimes after a long, stressful day at work. I've got my 3, 5 & 8 lb weights to go along with the weight training workouts. I'm not looking to body build, but for toning they're perfect for this game. Yes, some of the body tracking is poor, but as long as you are really doing the exercise as shown, it's still giving you a work out regardless of the games point of view. If you don't like going to a icky gym and prefer the privacy of your own home while getting a great work out and sweating bullets, nevermind the price of a gym compared to the one time price of a video game, and have your own personal trainer push you along, this is the game for you!!!

Gameplay is a little quirky on this. I worked out for 45 minutes, but it only registered when I did the moves exactly right, so it only gave me a whopping 6 minutes!!! It certainly gets your heart pumping & is a great workout, but since it doesn't track your body that great & you only get minutes for when you moved exactly like the instructor, it gets a bit frustrating. Overall a decent game.

I bought this on a whim because I just got a Kinect and didn't have many games for it. I'm completely happy with the purchase now. The game itself works very well with the Kinect system and tracks body movements very accurately. The game will let you know when your exercise form is starting to slip which is very helpful. My favorite thing about this game is the sheer variety of different exercises. I like to start out with a game of brickbreaker (smash bricks with your arms and legs), then move into one of the plans that focus on different body sections (abs, glutes, arms, back, cardio, etc). These are offered in classes from about 3 minutes up to 30 so you can find something that will fit your current fitness level. Then on to "Run the World" where you run in place while going through New York or London (I think there are other cities you could buy in Xbox marketplace but I'm not sure about that). As a cool down I will go into one of the beginner dance classes and try to do some of the Hip Hop or Bollywood moves. Good for a laugh, at least in my case.