Kinect Sports Rivals is a sports video game developed by Rare and published by Microsoft Studios for the Xbox One. It is the third game in the Kinect Sports series and utilizes the console's Kinect motion-sensing camera.The game was announced during Microsoft's E3 2013 press event and was released in 2014.
Gameplay[]
The game features sports such as bowling, jetski racing, rock climbing, soccer, target shooting, and tennis.
Development[]
The staff size for Kinect Sports Rivals was 150. Originally intended as an Xbox One launch title, the game was delayed from November 2013 to April 2014. Ex-Rare designer Gavin Price commented on the development of the game in 2015: "During Rivals' development, Kinect kind of got dropped quite suddenly. I think in part it was because we missed the launch date - I don't think that did us any favours! But we managed to get a jetski demo out for Xbox One's launch, and we had our cloud-based Avatar creation system with the facial recognition as well."