So I was looking around the local Gamestop for a new Kinect game and saw UFC Personal Trainer. Checked the metascore, and it ranked fairly high. So I foolishly purchased it. 1) THQ should be ashamed of releasing such a buggy product. This is worse than when Bethesda rushed Fallout: New Vegas and NPC's faces were on backwards. 2) THQ needs to hire programmers for whatever developer made this waste of a DVD (there's a reason why Zuffa's logo is smaller than a stamp on the back of the case) that can properly code for the Kinect sensor. Not only do I have to recalibrate the Kinect to point at the floor EVERY SINGLE time I want to play the game, but then it will randomly pause during every workout session because it loses track of my body frame or the way I'm moving doesn't fit into it's ridiculously unrealistic motion that the Wii-quality trainer is miming to me. 3) If there's an option to turn off the tutorials for the workout routines, I haven't found it and refuse to invest the time searching through the labyrinths of menus for it. I wasted $50 on this game and have no other recourse but to sell it back to Gamestop opened for 1/10th of the actual retail price. Thanks.

Having been using 'Your Shape' I was hoping UFC Personal Trainer to be somewhat more exciting and providing extra features. Was it? Has it? No. Straight off the bat, the loading times were huge. While the menu's looked nice, the actual ingame graphics are shocking. We're talking worse then the original Xbox. But graphics aren't everything obviously. I began the 30 day program and it crashed half way through. Yep, total freeze. And as there's no midway save (that's right, an hour of excising will not be saved unless it's complete), I had to restart again. Which means the damn 10 minutes warm up needs to be repeated. Of course you can skip parts, but this takes just as long as the session anyway to do. Think the horror of Microsofts "Are you Sure?" buttons. Those glory days are back! Attempting to move to another activity, it will once again runs you through the boring warmup. And it will keep doing this for every activity until you complete that activity. By this stage I was fuming. So how good was it reading ones movements? For general stuff like punching, it's very good. But the moment I had to lean forward, it couldn't read me at all. In fact, it wasn't possible to complete some activities without skipping them. Retuning the kinect made no change. Strange as only UFC Trainer has this problem. 'Your Shape' works fine. So what about versatility? Compared the 'Your Shape', it felt very shallow. Your teeth will grind with the continuos looping of voice and the limited amount of different movements made it feel like a $10 game. And moving from one excercise to the next one required more loading time. It's strange but rather then feeling the calories burn, I felt my patience burn. It had the **** ability to insult ones intelligence. The final straw came when it failed to read any movement and ended saying "That was terrible!". Yes, it was terrible. The whole game. One cannot understand how it can appear so rushed, no polish, and yet they spent so much time on it. And the no save feature will lead you to stab your own eye for relief. I'm sure if you absolutely love MMA, you'll overlook pretty much everything and let your imagination take you to where the game is trying to reach. For the normal person looking to get fit or remain fit, carving off your fat with a knife is less painful. One for the bargain bin.

tracking issues and redundant in-game voice-overs aside, UFC Personal Trainer is the most interesting fitness game on the Kinnect i've played so far. playing through the many features unlocks videos on how how to stay fit in general. as a piece of software, i felt THQ was very lazy in polishing the game's smallest details... like the stretching part, why is there a timer? i always end up stretching one more side than the other. tracking has always been the Kinnect's problem. unless you play naked or wear spandex in a 20x15 ft living room, the repetition counter will always screw you up the same way you'd never get a move right in Dance Central. the genius of this game is in its contents: workouts tailor-made by UFC trainers and done by fighters. that alone is worth buying this game if you're really serious in getting fit in your living room.