My Coach: Fitness Club test on PSP and PS3

The fitness programs have they become the new golden goose for publishers of video games? We note in any case they are more likely to venture onto this terrain. Quantity is not always synonymous with quality and we must learn to distinguish between the titles of the kind of quality and those who do not deserve a visit. The choice is all done in the case of My Health Coach: Fitness Club.
The love story that combines fitness and home consoles is relatively recent. Three years ago that Nintendo has opened the way with the infamous Wii Fit. Today, it is especially the Xbox 360 which has the wind in its sails in fitness programs with the arrival of KINECTS. This new accessory has indeed revolutionized the genre by allowing the console to recognize body movements directly. Ubisoft has not been the last to exploit opportunities KINECTS, The publisher has given birth to a Your Shape: Fitness Evolved rather well designed. My hope was that Coach: Fitness Club for Wii and PS3 would be the counterpart of the latter ... Admittedly we could not be more wrong. Let's start our tour of the Fitness Club with the only positive of reasons: it offers a relatively clear interface and pleasant to watch. Things get trickier when we tried to glean information consistent. The different sets of exercises are sorted in a very strange and title remains rather vague. You are entitled to know the duration of the session and whether it will make you work more on flexibility, balance, cardio, upper body, middle or bottom. The only way to know what's really behind a program is to do. This can be annoying as some exercises require a better condition than others, or even a flexible sense of rhythm quite extensive. Sometimes you will be asked for example to make relatively complex dance steps without even taking the time to break the movement to show you how. This lack Coach decidedly pedagogical virtues. Besides, do not expect a complete tracking of your efforts and your progress: the program only offers from poor diagrams summarize your past efforts. We would have liked for example that we should be set to true long-term goals and not just one or two sessions, or the famous coach the opportunity to give us advice tailored to our results.You understood, My Health Coach: Fitness Club already does not really shine in its content, but things only get worse when you discover the real exercises. We already knew the fitness programs that offer recognition movements more or less accurate, it breaks new ground by simply putting this functionality in the background. To be precise, the PS3 version offers compatibility with the optional Move Playstation. You can do without this accessory but you'll be just a spectator demonstrations offered by your virtual coaches. PS Move brings two things that are important: the camera filming you so you can get a return on your positions and the handle is sometimes contributing to whether or not you perform the actions in rhythm. No, you're not dreaming, a lot of the exercises are not compatible with any device for motion recognition. Suffice to say that we touch on one of the fitness programs totally dispensable and does not ultimately offer a lot more interactivity than a DVD.