EA Sports Active
Product Description
Revolutionize your examination fast with EA SPORTS Active, a idealisation interactive aptness module that’s written for you. Get fit with a holistic proceed to aptness which combines nourishment as good as lifestyle factors, with a accumulation of activities, all from a preference of your vital room. From customized routines which aim top body, reduce body, as good as cardio to a guided 30-day plea which tests flesh endurance, coordination as good as agility, stay in figure with aptness done fun as good as easy.Amazon.com Product Description
Developed in partnership with aptness consultant Bob Greene, most appropriate good known as Oprah’s personal trainer, EA SPORTS Active provides a fun, cheap as good as easy to say fast written to inspire earthy aptness as good as full of health living. A multiple of a far-reaching accumulation of interactive activities as good as exercises, related together in to an ever-changing circuit precision slight targeting a muscles of a top as good as reduce body, as good as upon condition which cardio for a full of health heart, it is a undiluted practice choice for any part of of a complicated household.
Gameplay Although wake up in EA SPORTS Active flows to one side by a multiple of a Wii Remote as good as Nunchuck controllers, it additionally utilizes a couple of one some-more accessories to show off a functionality of this configuration. The initial of these enclosed with a diversion is a controller leg strap. By attaching this to their top thigh as good as afterwards slipping a Nunchuck controller in to it, players can implement a Nunchuck controller’s suit intuiting capabilities whilst it is continuous to a Wii Remote to guard their leg movements. This allows for cardio exercises similar to jogging as good as cardio fighting as good as strength precision activities similar to squats. Also enclosed with a diversion is a insurgency rope written to enlarge a power of a accumulation of exercises such as bicep curls as good as shoulder presses as good as lifts. In addition, nonetheless not included, a Wii Balance house is concordant with most EA SPORTS Active workouts, though usually as an discretionary combined controller configuration. Key Game Features:
Co-op Multiplayer Mode
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- Game includes a low associated multiplayer diversion mode.
- Engage in aptness done easy by twenty notation circuits underline a accumulation of informed activities which aim top body, reduce physique as good as cardio.
- Follow a guidance, proclivity as good as precision tip of your really own practical personal trainer.
- 30 day challenge’ of tailor done twenty notation workouts, which shift as we swell any day, as good as lane calories, power as good as swell via your journey.
- Gameplay/workout options have been lengthened with a enclosed Nunchuck tag as good as insurgency rope accessories, as good as harmony with a Wii Balance Board (not included).
The reason I gave the Wii Active such a poor review is the numchuck holder is designed very poorly. The numchuck holder does not stay on the thigh very well – Nintendo could of come up with a different way to hold the numchuck on the leg. If I knew how poorly designed the holder was I would not have purchased this workout from Nintendo. I wish I could get a refund.
Rating: 1 / 5
Such high hopes.. completely dashed.
In a nutshell, a great workout may be had here, but the game is FLAWED.
From the opening moments, I knew it wasn’t going to work.
EA HEARTBEAT.. EA HEARTBEAT (push button to skip) EA HEARTBEAT.. EA HEARTBEAT.. (I GET IT! push push push button to ship) EA HEARTBEAT .. spinny logo HOLD . . . (push button push button) logo HOLD..) and load to the next screen.
SERIOUSLY? We can’t skip that? mkay..
Character create is shallow. Sorry, choosing shoe color doesn’t count.
It wouldn’t have taken programmers long to import a mii and just put EA’s spin on it.
THE TEXT IS TOO SMALL ON THE SCREEN. Holy buckets, I’ve got a 56″ screen and I was squinting from just across the room. Admittedly, I don’t have the best eye-sight, but still.
Typical speed programming problems: little things like there is text on the screen, with a prompt to move down.. so you do.. and find yourself scrolling the text up to find a blank line. Thanks much for nothing!
So, fired up 30 day challenge because creating a workout was really really confusing. It was just a bunch of little pictures, and none of them looked interesting. Where is the hoops? The tennis? Do I have to unlock them? Really? Care to mention that somewhere?
The workout is on, and it’s.. fine. I was getting a good workout. I got crap from the trainer for not running hard enough, but my pace was perfect. Turns out I was wearing the strap-thing too high. Lower it, and it sees more movement. SO, it wasn’t the PACE, it was the intensity. Too bad it didn’t tell me that.
TRAINER COMMENTS! OH, please.
GREAT JOB! YOU’RE REALLY DOING GREAT HERE! WOW, THAT’S SOME INTENSITY! GREAT JOB! YOU’RE REALLY DOING GREAT HERE! WOW, THAT’S SOME INTENSITY!
Really? the same 6 comments repeated in every workout non-stop? Like 1 comment every 3 seconds?
So, I went into the options and turned down the frequency of comments.
SAVING.. (pause pause pause) RESUME GAME
SAME THING EXACTLY. non-stop string of comments.
So, I went into the options and turned them OFF
SAVING.. (pause pause pause) RESUME GAME
SAME THING EXACTLY. Another bug. Crappy unchecked programming really hacks me off.
Back into options, Trainer voice volume, 0%
There, now he’s gone.
So, I got a pretty good workout. The running was .. fine.
They really missed it by doing the running on a TRACK.
HOW BORING IS THAT? Even Wii Fit lets you run around an island.
Ooo.. pink trees, big deal. loop loop loop .. same scenery again and again.
The stretchy cord stuff was .. fine. You can adjust the intensity by stepping on more or less of it.. cool. Seems flimsy and I’ve read the strap is snapping on people already.
The boxing was .. fine, though for the life of me I couldn’t figure out why some targets would break and some wouldn’t.
When using the balance board.. it was just dangerous.
foot up KICK..foot down.. foot up KICK.. foot down.
Repeat that a ton and you’ll find that you’re not putting your foot down in exactly the same spot. You aren’t watching your feet, you’re watching video cues on what to do next. I fell off twice, once rolling an ankle. Thanks EA.
So you’ve heard of all the different stuff in the game, right? I’ve heard of it too, but saw very little on my first workout.
IN FACT (this so hacked me off!) at the end of the workout, we pretty much repeated everything we’d just done. Really?
That’s interesting? That’s motivating? Puh-leaze. I was already bored and couldn’t wait for it to end.
Left lunges wouldn’t register, btw. I had to slap nunchuck for my character to go down with me. Crappy programming for the win.
The fact that your character on-screen takes a serious amount of time to respond to your movements is beyond annoying also.
I got a trophy for completing day one of the 30 day challenge (cool) and read that tomorrow, we’d be doing tennis. (cool!)
Fired it up tonight, heartbeat.. heartbeat.. ARG! ..
loaded the profile it suggested as the last used (the only profile created) and launched the 30 day workout.
ON DAY ONE.
(let me repeat that..)
ON DAY ONE.
Yep, I still had the trophy for completing day one.. but I was stuck back on day one.
I’ve read of this bug on other sites.
Crappy programming for the win. I really wanted to try tennis, so I tried to grin and bear it .. but I couldn’t. To do the same workouts 4 times in two days was just too much, especially since the lunges threw both knees out somehow.
EA SPORTS ACTIVE was pulled from my wii and will probably never be put back in. I can’t trust it.
For a good workout, I highly recommend Personal fitness coach. THAT is a workout. I’ve been doing that a few times a week for months. I took off about 10 pounds and have now been maintaining my body weight. It does something EA sports Active can’t: it gives energy by timing all the music to whatever you are doing, just like at the gym.
You may like it, but I couldn’t get by the bugs and how unpolished it felt. ick.
Rating: 1 / 5
As you may have read in my other reveiw, our little Jeremyna has a slight weight issue, mainly from her riding around her little scooter Razor Pocket Mod Miniature Euro Electric Scooter, and not walking anywhere. That is why we decided to get her this EA Active game. Jeremyna loves playing with her Wii, and it has helped a bit when it comes to her weight loss, but it tires her out completely.
Poor little winded Jeremyna.
The software is good in that it creates something called the “30 day Challenge” that allows you to tailor your workout, and change it up over this period of time. We just started doing this, and the results are positve, so far. We will see how the trial period works out.
We also saw that there is a co-operative mode with the game. When we introduced this to Jeremyna, she was all for it. But just one week into our practice, Jeremyna was not hip to it anymore. She said it was too hard, and threw down her Wiimote.
Stubborn little Jeremyna.
We are now back on speaking tems, but Jeremyna is not sure if she wants to continue. I told her, “No playing with her Wii, no Razor Pocket Mod.” That got her attention.
So we are back at it, and I am encouraging Jeremyna every chance we get. Great job, Jeremyna!
And good job EA on this fitness trainer.
Rating: 4 / 5
This was the worst video game and waste of money yet. HATED it. half the time the nunchunk in the strap doesn’t register. The other half the time the punches in the boxing don’t register. I WANT MY MONEY BACK. HORRIBLE
Rating: 1 / 5
I thought this game was good on the first day I had it- it was a nice mix of fun and more of a workout than wii fit. I immediately started the 30 day challenge and thought the exercises were good, except for the bent over rows. I am really short so I had to have my legs very wide in order for the resistance band to give any kind of resistance. The second day I did the workout my game stopped registering my movements during the bicep curls and lunges. I opened a new nunchuck and changed the batteries on my wii remote but still could not get the exercises to register. I tried skipping exercises, and that worked for a bit, but who needs a game that you can’t do all the moves in? Then the game kept telling me to stand still even though I already was. I adjusted the leg strap and even tried taking it off and setting it, the remote, and nunchuck down, but the game still insisted that I was not standing still. My boyfriend tried to use the game to see if it was just me, and it would not register his moves either. It was incredibly frustrating, and I returned the game. I had really high hopes for this product but so far it is the only game for wii that I have had any kind of trouble with. When I was having trouble with the controls it was WORSE than the Jillian Michaels game.
Rating: 1 / 5