Fruit Ninja Kinect Game Guide

Cleaving hundreds of fresh, juicy fruits is a fun way to kill a bit of time, and this has made Fruit Ninja a popular mobile game. With Fruit Ninja Kinect, the fruit-slicing action migrates from your mobile device to your television, and although its implementation of the Kinect is very good, this is still, at heart, the same game you can play on your phone for a buck. Fruit Ninja is a fun little distraction--nothing less and nothing more.

By waiting for the right moment to strike and slicing three or more fruits in a single slice, you earn a point-enhancing combo, and chaining these together can lead to massive point bonuses. In Classic mode, you have three lives, and you lose a life each time a fruit escapes from your wrath unscathed. There's no penalty for not slicing a fruit before it falls off the screen, and slicing a bomb costs 10 points, rather than bringing the game to an end. Bonus bananas sometimes appear, and slicing these brings certain benefits, like triggering a fruit frenzy or doubling your points for a time. There are also a pair of two-player modes in which players stand side by side and slice fruit simultaneously. In Team Arcade mode, you work together to maximize your shared score.