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Mixed or average reviews- based on 13 Ratings

  • Summary: Join the party with Zumba Fitness, a one-of-a-kind, dance fitness workout set to sexy, high-energy Latin and international music! Find your rhythm and let go as Zumba instructor fan favorites Gina Grant, Tanya Beardsley, and Zumba creator Beto guide you through 30 routines that will work you into a sweat and make you forget you're even exercising. Featuring exclusive music and choreography, Zumba Fitness for Kinect lets you see yourself on screen and naturally dance controller-free in an ultra fun interactive fitness party that's focused on the joy of movement! Expand
  • Developer: Pipeworks Software, Inc.
  • Genre(s): Exercise / Fitness
  • # of players: 1-4
  • Cheats: On GameFAQs
  • Rating: E
  • Special Controllers: Kinect Compatible, Kinect Required
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 10
  2. Negative: 7 out of 10
  1. Dec 20, 2010
    70
    This game is not for everyone but if you're looking for a fitness game with some SLAM behind it, this may be for you. Just be warned that you will need coordination and the lessons needed to be a little bit more in-depth.
  2. Suffers from being in a big sea of similar titles. [Jan 2011]
  3. Aug 16, 2011
    40
    Flaky detection and awkward menus seriously hamper this dance fitness game.
  4. Jul 12, 2011
    40
    It may be fun and it may make you sweat, but as an interactive fitness companion it's a feeble, infuriating effort that lacks the stamina to compete.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 11
  2. Negative: 3 out of 11
  1. 10
    Just bought Xbox 360 with kinect. I purchased Zumba fitness Join the Party and am having a hard time getting started. Can anyone out there help me? Do i need to be an xbox live customer? cuz i don't want to be at this time, not till i figure this out anyway Expand
  2. I don't think it's as bad as the other review are saying. It's no means the greatest game ever. The music is good. The tracking is alright. You can trick the game into thinking you are doing better then you are but you can do that with any Kinect game. Overall not bad. Can tell it gave me a real good work out while having fun and that is the whole point of the game. Expand
  3. The User Interface is buggy and awkward, and can be very frustrating and hard on your arm. The tutorials are not helpful because once you do the move correctly once (even by accident), the tutorial moves on to the next move without letting you practice. Sometimes the game would lose track of your or sign in another Guest instead of detecting your profile. Finally, the graphics are nothing special.

    Once you are in the game, the tracking is fine (especially on lower difficulty) and the selection of music is excellent. The best part of the game is to just get in and play -- skip the tutorials and just exercise. My wife was able to use the game to do her Zumba workout by herself when the roads were too icy to make it to her regular class.

    If Pipeworks were to fix the UI (just let the player swipe and point like other games) and fix the bugs in a Title Update, I'd bump this up to a 6.5 or 7. It's never going to be a AAA title, but it would be worth purchasing by people who love Zumba is it were just more accessible and forgiving.
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  4. 0
    I wanted to buy this game for my xbox 360 with Kinect so bad! Got it home and it didn't play on my console AT ALL! Customer support with 5 different people and over 7 hours between phone calls and driving back to Walmart to exchange it and still no working game. They wanted me to PAY to send this game to them so they couldn't "take a look". They offered no fix at all! This game was the reason I wanted an xbox with Kinect. I'm so sad. Expand

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