Latest Wii Fitness Title Uses Body-Scanning Video Camera

than a very advanced electronic personal trainer with the possibility of also playing console games on.

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Why am I saying that? Well, because Wii Fit is number one in the charts, there are a lot of fitness-related games coming up and most adults or teens only buy the Wii in order to help them exercise. And because the Wii is such a great personal trainer, there just had to come a game with a personal trainer’s very own… personality. What am I talking about? Why, the Your Shape title from Ubisoft, of course.

The game comes boxed with a body-scanning video camera that scans your body and creates a 3D “Minime” mini… you. Then, you point to the part of your body that you want to… well… shape, and the game recommends a series of customizable exercises depending on how much time you have or what type of workout you desire. It shows you how much weight you lost and even passes a bit of judgment on your current figure.

This “light” version of Microsoft’s Project Natal promises to bring you back into the shape you never had by mercilessly working you until you’re unconscious at the same time judging your every move and mentioning when something you did was wrong. Honestly, if this game makes people get up from those chairs and do some exercising in order to stop scaring kids when they show up in their bathing suits at the seaside, then I am all up for it.

Still, isn’t the Nintendo Wii a console, made for gaming, which is fun? And have we reached a stage where we are so fat and lazy that we need a console game to shame us into exercising? We’ll find out sometime this year.