Fighters Uncaged

Fighters Uncaged is a nice addition to the Kinect library but ultimately is lacks substance, which prevents it from ever becoming a 'Must Have' game. An interesting diversion but once the game has brutally punched your face off, you will be unlikely to return for a second round.

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Fighters Uncaged shows promise but nothing else.

This unique fighting game feels rushed in every single way. Fighters Uncaged responds very badly to your moves and that's simply something you can't afford when your life is at stake.

In conclusion, Fighters Uncaged lacks any real gaming substance and although I can appreciate what the developers were trying to achieve, they really needed to test this game before releasing it in order to jump on the Kinect Launch bandwagon.

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Fighters Uncaged doesn't offer nearly enough content, and much of it is hidden behind artificial content walls. Most of the fighters are much the same.

With sub-par controls, an unattractive presentation, and nothing to do but fight the same simplistic and unrewarding fights over and over again, Fighters Uncaged is a stumbling failure, akin to a fighter who's doomed to a forgettable career as a low-ranking amateur.

Incompetent. [Jan 2011]

It's has a couple decent ideas but it's entirely ruined by how it actually plays and controls, and it's not fun in the least bit.

The game is tedious and lacks variety, even though it claims to have over 70 moves. You have to go through seemingly endless repetition to unlock new opponents, and the actual combat is slow and boring. A waste of time.

What you're left with is a title which frustrates far more than it excites and therefore can only be recommended to the desperate and the forgiving.

While the intent was there, Fighters Uncaged comes off as a failed experiment that should be avoided if you're looking to see the potential of Kinect.

No chance for a game that can't have a single positive aspect. Many technical issues make this an overall failed product for Kinect owners.

I can't quite say that this is the worst Kinect launch game, but it's right up (read: down) there.

Fighters Uncaged is the perfect anti-game. The main idea is kinda interesting, but the way it has been realized is really horrible. The game fails to register most of the movements, and huge lag problems transform Fighters Uncaged in one of the most broken games of this generation.

This game had potential. The idea was great for Kinect, but something went horribly wrong along the way. Kinect is supposed to register your every kick and punch, but it only catches about the half of them. This will make you frustrated, and the lack of content and decent gameplay-functions makes you even more angry. Borders on unplayable.

A game that clearly wasn't thought out properly or even tested for longer than five minutes.

The core fighting system is designed well enough, but the Kinect control is lazily implemented and there's absolutely no variety to the fights. [Issue#66, p.93]

Fighters Uncaged is the worst game to come out of Kinect's launch, hands down. It looks and plays like it was rushed.

The ideas and content here are thin on the ground, and limply implemented, too - it's inexcusable that a game whose sole interaction is hand-to-hand combat should not be able to tell the difference between dodging and headbutting. [Christmas 2010, p.98]

The best aspect of Fighters Uncaged is that it can now be used as a blueprint for a book on "How Not to Create a Kinect Game". Avoid Fighter's Uncaged; it'll only aggravate and show you the downsides of motion-controlled video games.

Controls, rather, your body is wonky.

Fighters Uncaged got the supreme honor of being the crappy game of the Kinect launch, a joke we'll laugh at when we'll remember these days spent moving in front of the TV.

May I introduce Fighters Uncaged, the most "hardcore" game out of all the Kinect launch titles, and easily the most incompetent. With essentially one game mode, flawed gameplay, unresponsive and downright inaccurate controls, the one redeeming quality that Fighters Uncaged does have is that I'll never have to play it again... ever! Thank goodness!

As one of very few core games currently available for Kinect, this is the kind of tripe that will give the new technology a bad name.

To make matters worse, you get sent back to a tedious menu screen every single time you learn one of the hundreds of thousands of stupid moves.

Fighters Uncaged has few content, and is flawed by a poor movement recognition and an underwhelming game system. Its atmosphere is non-existent, the opponents are more of a joke than a challenge. Steer away from that game.

There is nothing inside Fighters Uncaged that makes it worthy of your money or your time. The only other plus to playing this title is the extreme exercise you receive due to over-compensating for the game's inaccuracy.

Poor motion controls and unrewarding gameplay prevent you from having any fun at all with this terrible fighting game.

Honestly, Fighters Uncaged simply isn't worth breaking a sweat over. You'd be better off facing a real challenge, like trying to play Super Street Fighter IV one-handed or trying to play the boxing game in Kinect Sports blind-folded. No one should subject himself or herself to the pain of Fighters Uncaged. Avoid it.

Audley Harrison puts up a better fight than this. [Feb 2011, p.108]

Fighters Uncaged is one of the worst cash-ins we've ever had the misfortune to play.

If you don't want to throw your brand new Kinect out of the window, take this advice: don't buy Fighters Uncaged. You have more luck controlling a lifeless rock. The game doesn't surprise anywhere, except that Microsoft allows games this bad to show up on Kinect this early.

I have no idea what possessed Ubisoft to back this title for Kinect's launch.

All hardware launches have their shovelware and this is the most glaringly awful for Kinect.