Deca Sports Freedom

by Konami

Product Features

• Enact sports moves to bring 10 athletic games to life ? without a controller, thanks to Kinect compatibility (Kinect not included)
• Swing a tennis racquet, jab with your hand, pull back on the bowstring and more to control the sports action
• Experience 10 different sports events: tennis, boxing, archery, paintball, beach volleyball, dodgeball, kendo, mogul skiing, snowboard cross and figure skating
• Challenge local and regional DECAthletes to sports competitions online
• Unlock the latest sports gear and fashions from Adidas to clothe your player in the game, and even win clothes for your avatar to wear out of the game

Product Details

• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B003TJVKAS
• Product Dimensions: 7.3 x 5.4 x 0.6 inches ; 4 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: November 18, 2010
• Average Customer Review: 1.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (77 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,081 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #23 in Video Games > Xbox 360 > Sports

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Unlock official Adidas gear

Synopsis

Ten sports. Zero controllers. Play your favorite sports with complete freedom to move in this first Deca collection designed for Xbox Kinect. Swing rackets, spike volleyballs, throw uppercuts, glide across the ice, and much more as you play each game with complete realism. Choose from Tennis, Boxing, Figure Skating, Archery, Snowboard Cross, Mogul Skiing, Dodge Ball, Kendo, Beach Volleyball, and Paintball. If you do well, your avatar will score perks just like a real athlete, earning licensed Adidas apparel to wear in-game. If you do really well, your avatar can even take the clothes outside the Deca world.

 

Swing a tennis racquet

dodgeball, kendo, mogul skiing

Features

• Enact sports moves to bring 10 athletic games to life — without a controller, thanks to Kinect compatibility (Kinect not included)
• Swing a tennis racquet, jab with your hand, pull back on the bowstring and more to control the sports action
• Experience 10 different sports events: tennis, boxing, archery, paintball, beach volleyball, dodgeball, kendo, mogul skiing, snowboard cross and figure skating
• Challenge local and regional DECAthletes to sports competitions online
• Unlock the latest sports gear and fashions from Adidas to clothe your player in the game, and even win clothes for your avatar to wear out of the game

Product Description

DECA SPORTS, the hit sports compilation series that has already seen over 2.5 million units sold through worldwide on Wii and Nintendo DS, is taking sports to the next level and to the Xbox 360 with 10 sporting events you play using your own body in DECA SPORTS FREEDOM! No controller necessary, just move yourself as if you were playing the sport in real life! Spin, throw, and smash your way to victory across all of the included events: Tennis, Boxing, Archery, Paintball, Beach Volleyball, Dodge Ball, Kendo, Mogul Skiing, Snowboard Cross, and even Figure Skating!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

38 of 39 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Hopefully they get an update out soon, November 18, 2010

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John S. Dean "John" (Sturtevant, WI United States) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars 

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Just arrived, but seems pretty buggy in the interface. All the other games have no problems showing the "hand cursor" so you know where your are in relationship to the buttons to press. This game seems to have them about half the time. The other half, there's a button, and moving your arm around with no guidance on the screen, it's a hit and miss trying to orient exactly where the system thinks your hand is so you can guess which way to move it to hit the button.

Happens every time we play.

Game controls are more of a pain than anything else as well, and this is by far the least responsive Kinect game of all the ones I've got so far.

Doing the skiing is pretty impossible, as it just can't seem to correctly see my movements nor my sons. So frustration ensues and the game gets put away in favor of the ones that play well.

The kendo game seemed like it would be pretty cool, but that's another with not great body movements for control, and another instance where you can do things and the character just sits there on screen, no input being taken in by the system.

It could be a decent game, but they're going to have to put out some patches first to make it actually playable before it becomes enjoyable.

34 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Randomly Recognizes you, November 18, 2010

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William James Howell (Wetumpka, AL USA) - See all my reviews

= Fun:1.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Deca Sports Freedom (Video Game)

My kids and I were really excited about this game. We choose to wait for it instead of kinect sports.

But when we got it home today -- first thing we noticed -- it was a battle to select Next or Back.
In all the other games, that I have played the sensor has been quick and responsive. In this one it works sometimes then stops.

The game play: This should have been a great area with as many games as there are, but it freezes like your controller is broken stuck to the left -- of course this is only sometimes -- other times it works great.
Multilayer becomes even more frustrating -- one of the players controls could work fine and the others not or both work fine or both mess up.
More frustrating yet is the movements to play the game. You can't be sure which is the correct way to move because the same movement doesn't always work.

And the absolutely worst part of this game, is the tutorial. Here, let me explain 10 moves one at a time. You will have to click next after each one. Good you remember all of those Now we will have you practice the first one -- what you forgot that one ok back up and go through the entire instruction screen again.

I can't recommend this game -- I expected it to be great -- and all I can say is don't make my mistake -- Stay away from this one -- get it next year for $5 dollars used if you must try it.

I don't even see how patches can fix it. It would be clunky even if it worked great.

16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Yep, it's that bad, November 27, 2010

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Carrie Causey "Carrie" (Mercer Island, WA) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:1.0 out of 5 stars 

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I agree with every other poster - it is that bad. Glitchy, impossible to navigate the menus, can't hit the buttons, extremely short game play then loads of animations, doesn't track your movements correctly.

Sorry, Deca - this sucks.