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- Game includes a deep co-operative multiplayer game mode.
- Engage in fitness made easy through 20 minute circuits feature a variety of familiar activities that target upper body, lower body as well as cardio.
- Follow the guidance, motivation and training tip of your very own virtual personal trainer.
- 30 day challenge’ of tailor made 20 minute workouts, that change as you progress each day, and track calories, intensity and progress throughout your journey.
- Gameplay/workout options are extended with the included Nunchuck strap and resistance band accessories, and compatibility with the Wii Balance Board (not included).
Product Description
Revolutionize your workout regimen with EA SPORTS Active, the ultimate interactive fitness program that’s designed for you. Get fit with a holistic approach to fitness that combines nutrition and lifestyle factors, with a variety of activities, all from the convenience of your living room. From customized routines that target upper body, lower body, and cardio to a guided 30-day challenge that tests muscle endurance, coordination and agility, stay in shape with fitn… More >>
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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
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
This game does not weigh you which would be benificial if you want to keep track of your weight loss as well as how many calories you have burned. The black handels don’t come attached to the fitness band.
Rating: 3 / 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