The Biggest Loser

by THQ

Product Features

• Advanced DSi camera, Internet and Facebook functionality that allows you to share your progress with the world (not available via the Nintendo DS).
• Get health and exercise tips from Bob and Jillian, as well as former contestants, throughout this interactive fitness game companion.
• Get nutrition and calorie information on thousands of foods, as well as items from today?s most popular restaurants.
• Learn how to eat healthier with recipes from The Biggest Loser Electronic Cookbook.
• Exercise routines allow you to select from warm up, upper or lower body, core, cardio or cool down routines to help you meet your fitness goals wherever you are.

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B002BUSVFI
• Product Dimensions: 0.6 x 5.3 x 4.9 inches ; 3 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: October 6, 2009
• Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #17,090 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #94 in Video Games > Nintendo DS > Simulation > Life
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Platform: Nintendo DS

Amazon.com Product Description

Now you can stick to your goal of becoming "The Biggest Loser" wherever you may go with The Biggest Loser for Nintendo DS and DSi. Reminding yourself of your daily exercise routine, counting calories, menu planning on the go, tracking milestones, even keeping a photographic record of your progress over time; it's all a part of The Biggest Loser weight loss plan on DS and DSi. You can even take advantage of the expert advice and unique motivational styles of amazing The Biggest Loser trainers Bob Harper and Jillian Michaels along with the way. Support from Bob & Jillian. View larger. On-the-go calorie counter. View larger. Biggest Loser recipes. View larger. Sticking to Goals While on the Go We all know how hard it is to get the most out of a weight loss program – especially if you’re someone who’s constantly off and running. But if you’re more concerned about finding time to lose weight rather than how much, The Biggest Loser for the Nintendo DSi and DS may be just the solution that you have been looking for? Nintendo’s answer to handheld gaming provides fun, portable solutions to staying on top of your diet. These features can help you reach your weight loss milestones while you’re at work, on the bus, in between meetings – wherever, whenever. Finally. Something that helps you make good decisions when you’re on the go. Your Handheld Solution Ideally when it comes to sticking to your weight loss goals, the Nintendo DSi or DS and the Wii would work best together to help you stay on target. But the portable version isn’t just a complement to your Wii experience of The Biggest Loser – it adds something unique all on its own as well. Here's what: A detailed digital calorie counter that provides a quick and easy tool that gives you access to thousands of foods from grocery stores and popular restaurants. A digital exercise manual you can use anywhere. An electronic cookbook on healthy eating you can take wherever you need it. An accomplishments list, tracking your personal milestones. Mini-games providing everything from cravings management to trivia quizzes that test on diet, exercise, and food. The DSi Difference The DSi is Nintendo's newest handheld gaming device. It's packed with tons of useful and fun features relevant to gaming, but the ones that are most important to The Biggest Loser are its two 0.3 megapixel digital cameras, image storage capacity and built-in browser functionality*. Players/users of handheld version of The Biggest Loser who also have a DSi can utilize the DSi's cameras to record their progress and share it with friends as a means of support and even as a means to harness healthy competition. The DSi experience even possesses a Facebook application, making it even easier to share your progress with the world. Key Game Features Bob and Jillian - Get health and exercise tips from Bob and Jillian, as well as former contestants, throughout this interactive fitness game companion. Digital Calorie Counter - Get nutrition and calorie information on thousands of foods, as well as items from today’s most popular restaurants. Healthy Recipes - Learn how to eat healthier with recipes from The Biggest Loser Electronic Cookbook. Exercise Routines - Select from warm up, upper or lower body, core, cardio or cool down routines to help you meet your fitness goals wherever you are. * Features not available on the Nintendo DS.

Product Description

Based on the hit NBC show and featuring the expertise of personal trainers Bob Harper and Julian Michaels. This is more than just exercise games, they are complete personalized health and fitness programs.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

30 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Wow...., October 13, 2009

By 

James Fox (Atlanta, GA) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: The Biggest Loser (Video Game)

... and when I say "wow", I mean it as in "how could something that has The Biggest Loser franchise behind it be so bad?!?"

Let me start by saying two things: 1) I have a Nintendo DS, and not a DSi, so I will not be reviewing those functions involving the camera and internet connectivity, and 2) If you own the Wii version of this game, DO NOT PURCHASE THIS ONE! There is very little this game has that the Wii game doesn't have and the majority of it is repetition.

After you create your profile (by giving your name, gender, birth-date, height, weight, goal weight, and activity level) you create a little avatar with a few functions to change it's appearance. This is where the game immediately went downhill for me! It calculated a basal metabolism rate of 2205 calories and suggested as a sedentary person I eat 2145 calories a day - that's a deficit of only 60 calories! At that rate (barring exercise) it would take 2 months to lose a single pound! Moreover, in the "quiz" section of the game (more on that later), it says that the Biggest Loser doctors recommend eating no more than 7 times your weight in calories. Following that would be about a 500 calorie deficit - which makes more sense - however when you enter your calories in the calendar section, it still says "Suggested Calories: 2145". Already I'm finding this game useless, and am convinced that my free app "Loose It!" for my iPod touch is a thousand times better than this for tracking my calories in and out.

After creating a goal of how much weight you want to lose, you are ushered into the main screen with the four main options which are Calendar, Exercise, Healthy Eating, and Progress. There is also an Options button for changing music volume, sound volume, voiceover on or off, edit profile and delete challenge.

Calendar

From the calendar screen you can track your weight progress over time, use the calorie counter, exercise, and the weekly weigh in. The calorie counter earned this the second star since I thought it might be useful to some people. Many fast food and restaurant menus (34) are included... but it's far from complete. For instance, one shocking omission was McDonalds! Also, all the items in the calorie counter are current as of 2006 - fine for an egg that doesn't change its value over time, but bad if you are looking for a restaurant menu item that was introduced in the past 3 years. Again, my free app for my iPod is considerably better and up to date.

Exercise

Exercising with this is truly unrealistic and perhaps the biggest disappointment for me. The graphics demonstrating each move are two or three images in a loop. They look jumpy and hideously ugly. Moreover, you need to reach for your stylus and click a little check mark to advance to the next exercise every minute or 30 seconds (depending on the duration of that particular exercise). This is no different than exercising to a book - and having done that in the past, I can tell you it's just as interesting. Yes you can browse exercises, create a routine, or use a preexisting routine, but the execution is so terrible that these functions matter not!


Healthy Eating

This section includes Quick Tips (which seem to be repeated from the Wii game), a Cookbook (which is repeated from the Wii game), "Calculators" (which tell you your BMI, BMR, and suggested daily calories (rubbish)), Calorie Counter (the same 2006 edition as in the Calendar section), and two little quiz games. The first game "Choices" is where you answer 10 questions about which two items is the better choice. The majority of these questions insult your intelligence "French fries or baked potato? Soda or Water?" (I kid you not) and there doesn't seem to be much more than 20 questions total so replay is worthless. The same can be said about "Quiz" which asks multiple choice questions. These questions don't insult you as much and can be interesting, but far too few in number.

Progress

Here is a Progress Graph, a list of Accomplishments you've completed (lose a pound, skip desert etc. Mundane to the useful, could be motivating to some) and mini-biographies of past contestants (rather useless in my opinion).

Conclusion:

My conclusion? Shovelware. If you are unfamiliar with the term it means "software that has virtually no value to a user, but that is packaged and/or sold as if it did" or "software that is inflated in value by "shoveling" in all kinds of information, usually free to anyone and generally worthless."

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars uuuugggggghhhh, November 18, 2009

By 

Sophie (Bethlehem, PA) - See all my reviews

= Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: The Biggest Loser (Video Game)

This IS the year 2009, right? Then why are these graphics so incredibly ugly and crappy!? I could make better ones myself on an etch-a-sketch. I really was very excited to get this game, and since it was from The Biggest Loser, I figured some time and effort would be put into the quality of game play. Well unfortunately, I was wrong, and now I'm stuck with this stupid game. I would have rather spent my $30 on the actual cookbook because they only give you a couple of recipes. And I'd rather go to a yard sale and get VHS exercise tapes for $1.00 then stand in front of my DSi, tapping buttons between each workout. There aren't even any other music tracks, just one! That cute little video above for this review is for the Wii, and I can't tell you how far off the DS game it from that! It's only in 12 colors. And they're ugly. I'm so angry right now. Thanks for nothing, Biggest Loser. Maybe I'll eat you for dessert.

9 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Misled...Correction!, October 9, 2009

By 

PRT - See all my reviews

= Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: The Biggest Loser (Video Game)

Amazon is mistaken...it says there is facebook internet connection...I can't find either, and I have a dsi. The camera works, but you can't save it anywhere.
What's worse...is the during the workout routines , you have to press the check with your stylus after each individual exercise...even during a workout routine...Have people learned nothing from the first wii fit?

The only thing it's good for is the cookbook, of which you could probably find cheaper as a book, and the calorie counter, which you could find
anywhere on the internet for free.

Amazon, should refund their customers who have ordered this...if there is a mistake in their product info. If someone is able to find the internet or facebook connect please let me know if I'm mistaken

Get the wii version of TBL it's great. This is pretty lame.

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