The original Your Shape for Wii was marketed primarily as a post partum pudge-buster with new mom Jenny McCarthy leading the fitness charge, but left a lot of players cold. Now, with the advent of Kinect, the game has evolved and Jenny McCarthy has been replaced with generic fitness girl and fitness boy, in what can best be described as a frill-free but serviceable exercise in ... exercise games.
For all its talk of customized workouts tailored to your personalized goals, the sad truth is that Your Shape: Fitness Evolved really boils down a few standard questions about your age, gender, weight and lifestyle, while the Kinect sensor measures your height and length of your limbs -- there's no real way to gauge your fitness, flexibility or exertion level. (And it never it once suggested that I check my heart rate.) Yet where it struggles the most is in its lack of ability to motivate. With trainers devoid of personality and charm, and with very little in the way of actual personalization, there isn't really much here to get you to put down the controller and get up off your butt.
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