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In a nutshell, from getting scanned in to create a digitized Avatar, to picking your team and playing through the different sports there is a sense of finesse and quality throughout.

SoccerBowling and Tennis return in updated form while new activities Target Shooting, Climbing and Wake Racing expand the Kinect Sports Rivals cannon. It’s an intelligent way of keeping things familiar while adding fresh interest for more core gamers.

The difference over previous Kinect Sports titles is a greater sense of competition and skill. Not that the game is harder per se, but that the increased accuracy of the Kinect sensor moves this from an exuberant frantic work out to something requiring a deft touch and strategic understand more common in the likes of FIFA.

Reflecting on Xbox One in general Duncan was clear about the role Kinect Sports Rivals needs to play for the platform. “I think what it’s been missing is that killer awesome game. Which obviously at Rare we want to be that, and why we were a demo on day one and why we made the game.”

Full article: 

http://www.forbes.com/sites/andyrobertson/2014/03/17/kinect-sports-rivals-xbox-one/