The Kinect, then, offers a great way for developer Halfbrick to bring the Fruit Ninja formula into the living room so the whole family can get involved. It is a simple concept, but one that did just enough to become a therapeutic pick up and play for millions of smartphone users.

The basic premise behind it is to perform a swiping motion with a finger, or in this case your hands, to slice various fruit that dances around the screen. Fruit Ninja Kinect 2 uses Kinect 2.0, and promises a better experience from top to bottom than its predecessor.įruit Ninja was a runaway hit on smart devices, first gaining mass attention in 2011 when Fruit Ninja landed on iOS. Halfbrick (Jetpack Joyride) are keen to put that right it seems, with the release of a follow up to their first Fruit Ninja Kinect title, which debuted on Xbox 360 and used the first iteration of the Kinect sensor. Short of a few token voice gestures thrown into cross-platform titles, the Kinect has been overlooked by developers for the most part. Given how central the Kinect 2.0 was to Microsoft’s vision for the Xbox One platform, there have been surprisingly few games that use the camera peripheral to its full capabilities.

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