Fruit Ninja

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Here we are. the fourth week of the XBLA summer of arcade. This weeks game is a kinect only game called fruit ninja.
In Fruit Ninja you slice fruit with a blade (your hands) via the kinect sensor. As the fruit is thrown onto the screen, you swing your arms around like a mad man trying to create a slicing motion, attempting to slice the imaginary fruit in half. Sounds silly, I know, but it is kinda fun and it gets my 1 year son to laugh hysterically at me. Extra points are awarded for slicing multiple fruits with one swing, and you can use both arms simultaneously to make multiple slices. In Classic mode, you must slice all of the fruit fruit; if three pieces of fruit are missed or you hit a bomb, the game ends. But upon reaching scores that are multiples of one hundred (i.e. 100, 200, 300, etc), you will gain an extra life (unless they have not missed a piece of fruit already). In Zen mode you try to seek high scores without having to worry about bombs. Also available is an Arcade mode in where you have only 60 sec to achieve a high score. Special bananas are added to the standard fruit which have unique bonuses such as doubling points scored for a limited time, increasing the amount of fruit on the screen, or slowing down the movement of all fruit for a short period of time. There is a multiplayer mode, however my wife refused to play with me last night so I haven’t tried it yet. It’s a fun game, however it sucks for people who don’t have a kinect and were planning on buying all the SOA games to get Crimson Alliance for free. Ultimately, even if you never play this game, it’s worth it as you would be getting CA for 800 points instead of 1200.