Active Health with Carol Vorderman (Nintendo DS)
Carol Vorderman is more commonly associated with exercising our brains rather than our bodies but nevertheless here she is trying to help you trim your figure via the Nintendo DS.
Once again we have a game that displays the true versatility of the DS as more than just a handheld games console and very much a leisure tool.
Active Health comes armed not only with Carol Vorderman (not literally); it also comes with a nicely designed little pedometer which you stick in your pocket to monitor your exercise.
With all fitness games there has to be an incentive otherwise it gets as boring as doing exercise voluntarily. The game is successful here, it is engaging, fun and very rewarding.
Lots of quirky initiatives have been introduced to9 make this a great little fitness package. The obvious personal details such as your weight need logging and then it is just a case of zipping the data collection on your pedometer across to your DS by infra-red.
The DS recognises and analyses your efforts and even sets up challenges for you - the best one being a walk from Land's End To John O'Groats. It's a virtual walk obviously but your progress is displayed on the screen.
Lots of nutritional advice and health advice is available, for example you are encouraged to add your food intake - in turn it offers calorie advice and healthy recipes.
This is a great little tool that makes exercising and eating healthy seem more fun, obviously all of this you will probably already know but when presented to you in the form of a DS game it does seem more appealing just like Wii-Fit.
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Steve Wollaston - Sunday Mercury games reviewer Steve has been writing about video games for donkey's years. In fact he is probably far too old for it now which is why you will see a lot of reviews been done by kids... He has been nominated three times for Regional Games Journalist Of The Year at the Games Media Awards, but never wins. His major love is sports games and rates Sensible World of Soccer circa 90's as the greatest game ever made - closely followed by Championship Manager 2. Skyrim has currently taken over his life.
