Product Description

Your Shape Wii

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #493 in Video Games
• Brand: UBI Soft
• Model: 17562
• Published on: 2009-11
• Released on: 2009-11-24
• ESRB Rating: Everyone
• Platform: Nintendo Wii
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 1.50 pounds

Features

• Personalized to You - Your unique plan is based on the results of your fitness test, combined with your personal fitness goals. This plan will mix the right level of intensity with exercises focused on achieving your goal.
• You’ll Always Do the Exercises Correctly - The camera projects your image onto the TV screen so you can see yourself exercising next to Jenny.
• Exercise Controller-Free - The camera sees you, so it works without requiring any additional hardware (such as Wiimotes, nunchucks, and balance boards), leaving your hands free to focus on the exercises.
• Exercise That’s Fun and Motivational - not only is Jenny your in-game workout buddy, but you can choose from 6 background colors, 100 motivating animations, and more than 75 music tracks.
• More Exercises Than Any Other Game - Your Shape includes close to 500 exercises – which means that your routine is always focused on meeting your goals.

Amazon.com Product Description
Developed in collaboration with fitness experts, Your Shape personalizes a fitness program to your body type, goals and schedule. The game comes with a motion-tracking camera in the package. Plug the camera into your Wii and you’re ready to go! The camera scans your body so your every move can be detected and guided.

Jenny McCarthy is your in-game workout buddy--she will motivate, inspire, and guide you as you work to reach your goals, while keeping things fun (and funny) along the way. Since the game detects your movements, Jenny can coach you as you work out to ensure you’re doing the exercises correctly. Fitness has never been this personalized or this much fun!

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Personalized to You: First, you take a fitness test so the game knows your current fitness level. Then, you tell the game what you’re trying to achieve (slimming your stomach, strengthening your arms, etc.). Based on that, the game designs a program specifically for you based on your fitness level, goals and schedule. Constant Guidance to Ensure You’re Doing the Exercises Correctly The camera projects your image onto your TV next to your in-game workout buddy, Jenny McCarthy. Jenny is in the game, motivating you and coaching you to success. The camera tracks your movements so Jenny can tell you what you’re doing right and correct any mistakes. That way you know you’re not wasting time. Exercise Controller-Free The camera sees you, so it works without requiring any additional hardware, leaving your hands free to focus on the exercises. Fun and Motivational Jenny McCarthy is your workout buddy--always by your side, entertaining and inspiring you. As you exercise, the game regularly displays how many calories you’re burning and your accuracy percentage so you can always strive to beat your high score! More Exercises Than Any Other Game More than 400 exercises ensure that your routine is working to meet your goals. Plus, you’ll never do the same workout twice Compatible With Your Own Fitness Equipment The game works without requiring any extra equipment, but if you have free weights, a balance ball, a step bench and/or a heart rate monitor, Jenny will include them in your personalized routine Challenge Yourself Test your fitness level with the physical challenge, a test designed as a check-in for you to see how much your fitness level has improved. Take it any time! Play in English, Spanish, or French

Customer Reviews

Deja vu all over again
I've been waiting for this program for months. I've become a Wii exercise junkie. Just about everyday I work out with "My Fitness Coach", "Wii Fit Plus", and "More EA active" (I did workout with the originals but I recently upgraded). So when I found out that there was going to be a fitness program that utilized a camera to measure your proficiency, well I was thinking Flying cars just might not be that far behind. I knew it was going to be good - I mean after all, everyone learned a lesson from "Jillian Michaels Fitness Ultimatum 2009" . . . Right . . .

Well, I got the program on release date and worked with it for about 2 hours (Set up and working out). The set up is easy. I was afraid the camera was going to utilize the motion sensor plug spot on my Wii. But no, the camera connects to the USB slot, so there's no need to be switching cables every-time I work with Your Shape. The profile set up is easy enough and of course you have to take a fitness test that gets graded. For some reason the program said I was doing my jumping jacks incorrectly, so my final fitness test grade was a B.

After the test you go into creating your workout schedule. Be careful here because I thought I was just checking out what they call "Extra Challenges", but instead ended up starting (and doing) a 30 minute yoga workout.

Now the trouble really starts.
Apparently the Your Shape people thought the annoying feedback chatter in EA Active is charming because I was getting a continuous string of peppy encouragement. At one time, during the corpse poss in yoga, there was nonsensical chatter like "You can do it", or "feel them muscles stretch"or "do you feel the burn". I searched the menus for ways to turn off chatter but the best I could do is lower the voice. The yoga section was still pretty good, although in 30 minutes we only used about 8 moves. And BTW, they continued the same mistake in "My Fitness coach" where the trainer has you going through a seriers of yoga moves, about 4 times in a row, but unfortunately she only verbalizes the moves the first time. And then there were the workouts. If you have "My Fitness coach", then you already have this game. The only difference is "Your Shape" uses the camera. I spent a good deal of time requesting that my workouts center on my core and when my first "Your Shape" work out started it was just about the same workout I did this morning with My Fitness Coach (as a side not "My Fitness coach" used to be called "Your Self Fitness"). And BTW, there were no real core exercises in my so called focused workout.

Today, I worked out with the program for about 90 minutes. And as I suspected, they took away the workout options that you have with "My Fitness Coach". In "MFC" you can pick the workout but here it is scheduled. As I stated earlier you can change the focus of the workout-but selecting an AB focus didn't seem to have any effect. Another thing they took away was the ability to pick the type of music you want to hear. The music is okay for Your Shape but I thought MFC did a superior job with the music selection plus you can pick the style you like. Still, I had no real problem with the music with Your Shape.

As far as the camera. The so called center piece of this game, well I was disppointed. As I stated earlier the game did no recognize my arm movements in the Fitness test. It turns out that was a fairly common occurance with some of the other exercises. Additionally there is a slight time lag between when you do the movements and when they appear on screen. And please wear light colored clothing, otherwise you won't really register on the TV screen. I really did not expect stellar video quality on a 70 dollar game. But it is serviceable as far as the game but the movement recognition has me concerned.

If you have "My Fitness Coach" or "Your self Fitness", don't bother getting "Your Shape". If you don't have one of those programs, wait until "Your Shape" comes down in price. Your Shape by itself is okay but considering it is really a watered down version of its two prior versions, it is hard to recommend the game.

Two stars because it will work you out, and the camera is a neat idea, but the other versions out there are better.

I had to edit my first review - I wrote this very late and was too tired to check out the far too many mistakes.

Awesome game but very picky
This is definitely the most incredible workout on the Wii to date. To provide context, I am in average to pretty good shape. I run 3 miles in about 11 minutes a mile and can handle a good 45 minute workout pretty well. I am totally in love with this game. My Wii is now a great workout machine with EA Sports Active and Your Shape. Some things to consider:
1) Space - The game's body recognition is very picky. You do need to keep as much of your body as you can on the screen at all time. They suggest 8 to 10 feet between you and the camera. They are being very literal. I am 6 feet from the camera and definitely have some failures because my arms and my legs sometimes go outside the screen.
2) Light - The room needs to be well lit. Shadows in the workout space will confuse the camera when they cover you.
3) Tempo is important - Part of the game's finickiness is that you have to be in sync with the Jenny avatar. Falling behind and being off from the tempo will bring the annoying "Follow Me" arrows. You will have to keep your intensity up the whole time.
4) There is a learning curve - It will take a few workouts to get used to the way the camera is recognizing you. Expect your first few workouts to "score" lower as you adjust. Thankfully, you are not forced into bad form to make the camera recognize you, but you will have to make some minor modifications.
5) No cheating allowed - The camera never gets tired, and expects you not to get tired as well. If you get tired and part of your body starts to slow down, it will ding you for it.
6) The camera is picky - yes, the camera is picky and expects precision
7) You are going to get dinged - this is a complex technology, and you and the camera will disagree. Just expect it. It will ding you sometimes when it shouldn't.

Definite pluses:
1) Keeps you honest - see items 3 and 5 above.
2) Using your equipment - Being able to use hand weights and a step are awesome, and definitely contribute to the intensity of the workout.
3) Constant motion - one problem I had with EA Sports Active (I have since figured out how to do compound movements with it) is the stillness. You have to be moving only the part of the body that it is expecting. Gold's Gym boxing game has the opposite problem. You can pretty much jab the whole game and it still registers those as the punches it expects. This game never stops moving. Curls and presses are done with plies (sp?), kicks are done with squats and up/back movement. You do not stop moving so the cardio intensity stays up.

This is an awesome workout, and it will have you dripping after 30 minutes. The camera is finicky. You will be adjusting the camera and yourself for the first few workouts.

To Summarize: If you can be patient, have a well lit room, and a good amount of space you will be rewarded with an incredible challenging workout.

Don't be duped like me!!
This is Yourself Fitness all over again. The camera is added in as a gimmick, but the exercises are exactly the same as that game. The trainer even asks how you're feeling before each workout like Yourself. I should've waited to read some reviews, what a disappointment!! Skip it