Thread: Michael Phelps: Push the Limit

Michael Phelps: Push the Limit is asports game focused entirely on swimming and stands as the first gameof its kind for Kinect. After some little difficulty in loading anddoes not let us out of the game, we are in front of the main menu.There are three game modes: Quickplay, Career and Multiplayer. Thegame allows the player to quickly jump into action without directlyand customization of the game are many: first, there is a roster of adozen swimmers and swimmers, including Phelps himself, while thereare four disciplines selected from Style free, backstroke,breaststroke and butterfly. The length of the race is selectable from50 to 200 meters and has seven swimming pools in which to compete.Once you select the options best suited to the type of game that mostinterests us, the real game begins.







The player's task is to imitate theactions that are illustrated by a small image in the center of thescreen, a movie before every race serves as a tutorial, which you canjump to say "skip". The effort required is to be aligned tothe average of the other Kinect games, except that the legs are notused. To achieve results necessary to maintain a good rhythm and goodspeed to avoid running out of stamina quickly, represented by acolored bar on the left which decreases as the athlete virtual tired.At the start of each race you can maximize your stamina trying toraise the cry of the public, encouraging him with the arm movements.The only difference in terms of gameplay is when you face a racelonger than 100 meters in this case, the player must follow certainicons with your hand to maintain maximum speed of swimming. Icons areof course also "noise" that the swimmer will lose speed.

The Career mode puts us in the shoes of an athlete during hisascent to the top of the swimming world, nothing different from whatwe have seen in other sports titles. For the creation of our athletesis extremely limited character of an editor, which allows us tochoose, in addition to sex, people of different races and differentcostumes and accessories. The game also offers a multiplayer modeoffline two-player, allowing you to play with a friend as long as youhave enough space, and even an online mode that lets you play againsteight other players. Graphically the game does not excel, theanimations are a bit 'woody while the water is not well maintained asit should be a title that makes this central element of theirenvironment.