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Kinectimals

Kinectimals is a video game for the Xbox 360 that uses Kinect, with versions also available for various mobile devices.In the game players can interact with virtual animals in a manner akin to pets, gameplay…

65 4 November 2010

Kinectimals is a simulator developed by Frontier Developments, released 4 November 2010 on Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Kinectimals is

Kinectimals is a simulator game developed by Frontier Developments and released in 2010. It was published by Microsoft Game Studios. It is available on Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

Kinectimals is a video game for the Xbox 360 that uses Kinect, with versions also available for various mobile devices.In the game players can interact with virtual animals in a manner akin to pets, gameplay includes activities such as teaching tricks to the animal, guiding the animal around an obstacle course, and free-form play. The video game is aimed at a young audience, particularly children, and includes eleven different virtual animals all based on wild cats. Kinectimals was developed by Frontier Developments and was a launch title for Kinect.
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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are kids. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Kinectimals holds a critic score of 65 out of 100. That places it above 25% of the 2,882 rated simulator games in our database, which average 71. Games released in 2010 averaged 70, so it scored 5 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Kinectimals launched on 4 November 2010, within three weeks of Fallout: New Vegas, Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood, Assassin's Creed Brotherhood and Call of Duty: Black Ops. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Fallout: New Vegas, Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood, Assassin's Creed Brotherhood, Call of Duty: Black Ops.

Official trailer

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When did Kinectimals come out?
Kinectimals was released on 4 November 2010 for Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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