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Platform: Xbox 360
Product Description
Exercising with video games has become all the rage in recent years, but if you're serious about your health EA Sports Active 2 is the most fit for purpose. Using the latest motion sensing technology, this new version of the best-selling fitness program comes complete with new leg and arm straps and a heart monitor to track every element of your workout.
EA's largest development studio is responsible for some of the biggest brands for EA Sports, including the FIFA series, NBA Live, NHL and SSX. They have also just taken over the Fight Night franchise. Their offices employ over a thousand staff, with three separate production studios.
 Sports Active 2 supports all three motion control systems |
 Bundled leg and arm straps help with many exercises |
 Use the heart rate monitor to track your progress |
 David Beckham is the "brand ambassador" for the game |
For the first time you can even share your workout data via the online hub and check to see how your progress compares to friends and family. You can swap tips, become part of a regular workout group and swap messages to help you stay motivated.
In the workouts themselves you can take advantage of a new three-part, nine week program or customise your own regime using more than 70 individual exercises. Whatever your needs you can be sure this is the healthiest video game you've ever played.
Key Features- Full Surveillance: Total body tracking no matter which console you own, with an innovative mixture of motion controls, custom peripherals and classic workout techniques.
- Added Extras: Only EA Sports Active 2.0 comes bundled with its own heart rate monitor, to provide a constant onscreen update of your performance.
- Group Activity: Join the online Active community and track your fitness data via automatic uploads. Join an online group and see how your progress compares to your friends.
- Varied Exercise: Use more than 70 exercises to design your own fitness program or take advantage of the new 9-week program designed by professional trainers.
- Controlling Motion: Works with the Wii remote motion controls and Xbox 360 Kinect systems.
EA's largest development studio is responsible for some of the biggest brands for EA Sports, including the FIFA series, NBA Live, NHL and SSX. They have also just taken over the Fight Night franchise. Their offices employ over a thousand staff, with three separate production studios.
Product Description
Create unlimited customizable workouts with combinations of more than 70 games and activities, and exercise with games every day without the need for a controller
Track your heart rate on screen in real time with the innovative EA Sports Active heart rate monitor that rests comfortably on your forearm
Watch your body's every move translate seamlessly on screen
Chart your progress and share your achievements as part of the EA Sports Active online global community, and join groups of people with similar goals
Build muscle with foundational exercises like squats, lunges and bicep curls, and shake up your routine with a huge range of fun fitness activities from mountain biking and dodgeball to boxing and more
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Most Helpful Customer Reviews
42 of 42 people found the following review helpful
Platform for Display:Xbox 360
Fun:
4.0 out of 5 stars
I've used EA Sports Active 2 and Your Shape: Fitness Evolved and of the two, Sports Active offers the more extensive and considered workout regime by miles and miles and miles.
But first off, there are three things you need to do to stop Sports Active frustrating the heck out of you:
1. Turn off voice commands (This stops menus and videos appearing randomly during your workout).
2. Use a controller to navigate the menu screens (The menus were not designed specifically for kinect and it shows).
3. When doing floor exercises, assume the start position only when the game tells you to and make sure your feet or head are facing the sensor rather than being side on.
Even after doing these things, the game can still misbehave and lose track of you during your workout but not to the extent that it is unusable. Another general tip is to put your kinect as close to eye level as possible; as this reduces the amount of floor space you need for the play area.
The workouts Sport Active provides are properly structured exercise with warm up and cool down sections - A very important inclusion in my opinion and something I couldn't find in the bitesize 10 minute workouts offered by Your Shape. You end a session having definitely worked up a sweat and feeling that you've pushed yourself.
The game does a good job of motivating you with achievement milestones, progress graphs and lots of other stats. The online workout groups are also a good way of bringing in some friendly competition to motivate. Both of these aspects are much more comprehensive than the offerings in Your Shape. However, the in-game commentator/motivator does repeat himself a little too frequently to be convincing. Nor does he feedback posture corrections very accurately. Your Shape does these things a lot better.
In summary, Sports Active is far from perfect but it offers a thorough and comprehensive set of exercises, packaging them into well structured workouts and exercise plans. For a better presented but ultimately lighter and gentler introduction to exercise Your Shape:FE is probably for you. Personally, I'm certain you will get better results with Sports Active.
But first off, there are three things you need to do to stop Sports Active frustrating the heck out of you:
1. Turn off voice commands (This stops menus and videos appearing randomly during your workout).
2. Use a controller to navigate the menu screens (The menus were not designed specifically for kinect and it shows).
3. When doing floor exercises, assume the start position only when the game tells you to and make sure your feet or head are facing the sensor rather than being side on.
Even after doing these things, the game can still misbehave and lose track of you during your workout but not to the extent that it is unusable. Another general tip is to put your kinect as close to eye level as possible; as this reduces the amount of floor space you need for the play area.
The workouts Sport Active provides are properly structured exercise with warm up and cool down sections - A very important inclusion in my opinion and something I couldn't find in the bitesize 10 minute workouts offered by Your Shape. You end a session having definitely worked up a sweat and feeling that you've pushed yourself.
The game does a good job of motivating you with achievement milestones, progress graphs and lots of other stats. The online workout groups are also a good way of bringing in some friendly competition to motivate. Both of these aspects are much more comprehensive than the offerings in Your Shape. However, the in-game commentator/motivator does repeat himself a little too frequently to be convincing. Nor does he feedback posture corrections very accurately. Your Shape does these things a lot better.
In summary, Sports Active is far from perfect but it offers a thorough and comprehensive set of exercises, packaging them into well structured workouts and exercise plans. For a better presented but ultimately lighter and gentler introduction to exercise Your Shape:FE is probably for you. Personally, I'm certain you will get better results with Sports Active.
20 of 20 people found the following review helpful
By Lee Wright
Platform for Display:Xbox 360
Fun:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Having read some of the other reviews i was unsure about purchasing this, however it is excellant. Spend a bit of time with the set up and you will have very few problems. It does occasionally loose you when you change activities, but this very rare from my expierience with the product.
The exercise routines are very taxing and you know you have been working out when finished.
I am glad I purchased it
The exercise routines are very taxing and you know you have been working out when finished.
I am glad I purchased it
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
By Deankb2
Platform for Display:Xbox 360
Fun:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Based on other reviews I was expecting the heart monitor to be really difficult to use; this however was not the case and it was very easy to set up and use. I was impressed with the workouts and the ability to track your progress and to follow a structured programme. It's fun to do and easy to follow, so I would recommend it to anyone.
The only downside I found was that it kept pausing during the workout, but I think this is due to seetings on the Kinect.
The only downside I found was that it kept pausing during the workout, but I think this is due to seetings on the Kinect.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
3.0 out of 5 stars
Good product, but servers have now been shut down, hence generally...
I have actually found this to be a perfectly good exercise program. It isn't a lot of fun, which is why I probably gave up eventually, and I can't save a lot of my data anymore,... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Brian walsh
3.0 out of 5 stars
Not very accurate
It does make you work, but the Kinect couldn't tell the difference between jogging on the spot and simply lifting the knees higher. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Charlotte Howard
1.0 out of 5 stars
Dissapointing
Good exercises but motion tracking is awful.Very hard to enjoy when game keeps stopping because it cant see you properly.Have your shape fitness evolved and tracks much better.Pity
Published 2 months ago by Shane
5.0 out of 5 stars
Better than on the wii
Had this for the wii but bought an Xbox and thought I'd try it for the kinnect. Better as you dont need all the controls to get tangles yo with. Read more
Published 3 months ago by kathy hayhurst
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great product to start excercising at home
Only one disappointment is - it is no longer supported by EA, and there is no further version release coming out :-(
Published 3 months ago by Martin Suchanek
5.0 out of 5 stars
Very good
This is a very fun and active way to exercise for all our family and even our friends or just for yourself.
Published 4 months ago by Molly
4.0 out of 5 stars
Needs updates but a good overall workout
Its a pity EA release these titles and then instantly move on to working on the next one without sorting out the bugs and updates for their current releases - its a good workout... Read more
Published 5 months ago by Paul Sullivan
4.0 out of 5 stars
Better than I thought
I was nervous at first about buying this game because of some of the negative reviews I had read in advance. Read more
Published 10 months ago by Mark Webb
3.0 out of 5 stars
Good game shame about the bugs in The programming
Really like this game I have 1 and 2 on the wii but on the kinect it freezes all the time and you have to
go back to the beginning. Read more
go back to the beginning. Read more
Published 15 months ago by Jenny
5.0 out of 5 stars
ea sports
i enjoy this game it really gives you a good workout and you can alter the settings to our own capabilities.
Published 16 months ago by diane gledhill
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