14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft, the hardware maker and video game publisher that supports the Xbox 360 home gaming console, has announced that two of its motion tracking powered video games, Kinect Sports and Kinect Joy Ride, are set to get new downloadable content for free, sponsored by companies Chevrolet and Samsung.
Kinect Sports get the so-called Party Pack, which is available at the moment and was sponsored by Samsung, adds six new Mini Games, 15 new Party Play events and three mascots that players can use.
The game is also receiving 10 new Achievements which are worth no less than 250 Gamerscore point.
The new games are:
SuperStriker for Football – the player needs to score goals while avoiding tackling boots; Pinvaders for Bowling – the pins can now be stopped before reaching the hazard zone; Rapid Runner for Track & Field – see who can run the longest before running out of time Target Smash for Table Tennis – a score attack game built around table tennis; Fruit Splatter for Volleyball – fruits must be hit while flying fruit is avoided; King of the Ring for Boxing – see how many opponents you can knock out.
The new mascots are: Zippy Zombie, Champion Chicken and Sportastico.
Kinect Joy Ride is also getting the Chevrolet Car Pack beginning with January 4, 2011 and allows those players who watch the Chevrolet ad in the Xbox Live Marketplace area to download three new cars for the game: the Chevrolet Camaro, the Corvette and the Cruze.
The new vehicles can be used in any game mode and can also be painted using Kinect tracked motions.
Kinect Sports and Joy Ride are two of the games which Microsoft put out at the same time as the Kinect motion tracking add on and delivering more content for them is a good way of making sure that they remain attractive to gamers.