Adrenalin Misfits

Adrenalin Misfits is certainly a much better offering than Sonic Free Riders when it comes to board-style racing.

Adrenaline Misfits is a good idea and even a good game to some degree, but it suffers from too much style and too little substance.

Quirky. It's the best racer of a pretty bad bunch. [Jan 2011]

The raw ingredients for a fun, fast-paced, high-adrenaline racer that the Kinect sorely needs are all in place. But sadly CrossBoard 7 is ultimately let down by a lack of fine-tuning in the motion-control and gameplay department.

This is a title to rent rather than purchase because of its short term lifespan.

It's not an offensive-looking game, but the brief CGI character introductions are the only area where the game looks to be making an effort; the actual character designs are fairly annoying, although there is at least the option to use your LIVE avatar.

From its tired mid-1990s 'cool kid' chic and offensively putrid design; to the slipshod quality of control that consistently fails to map proper movements into the game's on-screen action, it's fair to say that Crossboard 7 is not the 'system seller' show-piece for Microsoft's intensively technical Kinect hardware, but more of a case study for developers to learn exactly what not to do with it.

Think Sonic Free Riders (shudders) but it works. (YAY!) Adrenalin Misfits made it work with a simple modification: the perspective is changed to slightly birds-eye-view, along with a crap-ton of other fixes. While it is still rather tiring sometimes, it's a KINECT GAME. The hell did you expect?! A properly-tuned Kinect can help a lot of problems. While still kinda crappy, Kinect games are getting better, and this is a good example. Have faith.

A decent game with fun and original characters, but I found the game hard to play, especially since it’s a Kinect game.