Review of Fit in Six for Wii
Platform: Wii
Rated:E
by Nutwiisystem,
Written on May 23, 2011
Ubisoft has had an interesting history with exercise video games.
The first exercise game they released, My Fitness Coach, was a true pioneer in exergaming. Many of its features, while considered rudimentary today, were ground breaking things that had never been done before. It was a best-seller, for good reason. In many ways it set the foundation for the introduction of Wii Fit and the huge interest in exergaming to follow.
After this, Ubisoft came out with a long list of duds. My Fitness Coach 2 was a decent title, but horribly marketed. Your Shape with Jenny McCarthy was a disaster (Ubisoft somewhat redeemed itself by developing Your Shape: Fitness Evolved for the Xbox Kinect, which more or less realizes the dream begun with the original Your Shape). Ironically, Ubisoft’s greatest success in exergaming was not an exercise game at all. It was Just Dance, which got people shaking their booties and doing the mashed potato all over the country.
Fit in Six is Ubisoft’s newest entry into the “pure exercise gaming” world.
You start out the game by inputting your name, height, weight, and sex. There doesn’t seem to be an option for a balance board to measure your weight. One thing I found very, very annoying was that in order to input my age and weight I had to click…and click…and click…and click the arrow buttons (the default age is 25 and the default weight is 132, let’s just say I’m not close to either of those). Not a happy start.
The next screen says “Find Your Balance” and then shows a green bar, a blue bar, a lot of numbers, and five colored icons on the bottom of the screen. What I found ridiculous about this is that there is no kind of explanation or even a help screen about what this means. The icons and colors are hardly intuitive. It would have helped if they’d simply put a hover-over to explain what this all means and how I’d be using this in the game. Again, not a promising start.
On the next screen, I can choose my goal. They are:
- Healthy Back (8 mins)
- Better Foot Stability (7 mins)
- Core Centering (7 mins)
- Core Conditioning (5 mins)
- Flat Belly (5 mins)
- Easy Lifting (9 mins)
- As Quick as a Flash (9 mins)
- Pure Power Kicking (9 mins)
- Rocking Abs (8 mins)
- Slim Waist (8 mins)
- Stretch Your Back (9 mins)
- Superset Workout (9 mins)
- Sculpted Back (20 mins)
- Flexible Upper Back (13 mins)
- Open Chest (15 mins)
- Sexy Shoulders (9 mins)
- Sexy Shoulders Pro (14 mins)
- Strong Triceps (9 mins)
- Strong Triceps Pro (12 mins)
- Healthy Back (8 mins)
- Healthy Back Pro (22 mins)
- Flat Belly (5 mins)
- Six Pack Starter (10 mins)
- Six Pack Pro (19 mins)
- Slim Waist (8 mins)
- Slim Waist Pro (13 mins)
- Strong Back (10 mins)
- Strong Back Pro (21 mins)
- Beach Workout (21 mins)
- Beach Workout Pro (26 mins)
- Shapely Hips (17 mins)
- Head to Toe Sculpting (30 mins)
- Glutes Lifting (12 mins)
- No Muscle Untouched (29 mins)
- Toned Waist (15 mins)
- Tight Tush (6 mins)
- Tight Tush Pro (15 mins)
- Baby Carriage (13 mins)
- Better Foot Stability (7 mins)
- Carry Heavy Tote Bags (11 mins)
- Climb Stairs Like a Teen (10 mins)
- Easy Sit Up and Down (13 mins)
- Easy Lifting (9 mins)
- As Quick as a Flash (9 mins)
- Standing Office Workout (13 mins)
- Stiletto Workout (10 mins)
- Cardio Warm-up 1 (3 mins)
- Cardio Warm up 2 (4 mins)
- Cardio Warm up 3 (5 mins)
- Fat Burning (11 mins)
- Fat Burning Pro (20 mins)
- Fit for Soccer (5 mins)
- Fit for Soccer Pro (15 mins)
- Marathon Master (7 mins)
- Marathon Master Pro (13 mins)
- Boot Camp Warm Up 1 (4 mins)
- Boot Camp Warm Up 2 (4 mins)
- Boot Camp Warm up 3 (3 mins)
- Core Conditioning (5 mins)
- Core Conditioning Pro (12 mins)
- Intense Arm Workout (12 mins)
- Power Pushup (11 mins)
- Powerful Torso Pro (12 mins)
- Rocking Abs (8 mins)
- Action Circuit (12 mins)
- Fight and Defend (9 mins)
- Burning Rist (10 mins)
- Kickboxing Basics (9 mins)
- Kickboxing Warm Up 1 (3 mins)
- Kickboxing Warm Up 2 (5 mins)
- Kickboxing Warm up 3 (6 mins)
- Pure Power Kicking (9 mins)
- Pure Power Punching (9 mins)
- Challenge Your Heart Rate (14 mins)
- Cardio Dance Basics (11 mins)
- Energy Empowerment (18 mins)
- Energy Burner (15 mins)
- Cardio Dance Challenge (16 mins)
- Cardio Dance Warm Up 1 (2 mins)
- Cardio Dance Warm Up 2 (3 mins)
- Cardio Dance Warm Up 3 (3 mins)
- Lust for Life (12 mins)
- Willpower Activator (14 mins)
- Balanced Body (26 mins)
- Core Centering (7 mins)
- Energy Flow (12 mins)
- Improved Flexibility (10 mins)
- Pilates Complete (35 mins)
- Pilates Power (25 mins)
- Strong Core Pro (19 mins)
- Stretch Your Back (9 mins)
- Back to Holiday (12 mins)
- Caribbean Device (9 mins)
- Hot Summer (16 mins)
- Latin Dance Party (20 mins)
- Latin Dance Warm Up 1 (3 mins)
- Latin Dance Warm Up 2 (3 mins)
- Latin Dance Warm Up 3 (5 mins)
- Latin Love (13 mins)
- Mambo Night (12 mins)
- Rhythm ‘N’ Dance (10 mins)
- Session 1: Skate (7 mins)
- Session 2: Stop (5 mins)
- Session 3: Side ‘N’ Cross Jump (6 mins)
- Session 4: Two-Step (6 mins)
- Session 5: Cross Walk (5 mins)
- Session 6: Set Up ‘N’ Wiper (7 mins)
- Session 7: Skate ‘N’ Stomp (8 mins)
- Session 8: Jumping Steps (7 mins)
- Session 9: Flying Steps (7 mins)
- Session 10: Compilation (13 mins)