Product Description

EA SPORTS Active 2 with Total Body Tracking will feature an innovative wireless control system powered by motion sensors in leg and arm straps that provide complete freedom of motion. Additionally, it will feature a heart rate monitor that provides constant on-screen monitoring, allowing users to capture intensity and optimize performance over time. Users will be able to track and share their workout data online through automatic uploading from their online connected console to their personalized EA SPORTS Active profile. EA SPORTS Active 2 with Total Body Tracking will make working out simple, fun and effective wherever you are.
 

• Built-in Heart Rate Monitor - Track your heart rate on screen in real-time with the innovative EA Sports Active heart rate monitor to capture intensity and optimize performance over time. The heart rate monitor sits comfortably on your left forearm and does not require a chest-strap.
• Wireless Motion Tracking - The EA Sports Active 2 Total Body Tracking wireless system uses motion sensors in leg and arm straps to register movement and provide complete freedom of motion. Exercise hands-free and customize your workout with your own fitness equipment!
• Take Your Workout Online - Track your progress on the web via the EA Sports Active online global community. EA Sports Active 2 tracks your fitness data online via automatic uploads to your online profile and allows you to share your data and connect with other users through workout groups - all while reaching your own personal fitness goals.
• 70+ Exercises and Activities - Create unlimited customizable workouts with over 70 exercises and activities to choose from, including foundational exercises like squats, lunges, and bicep curls and fun fitness activities such as mountain boarding, basketball, and boxing.
• Enrol in the 9-Week Program - Designed by certified

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #480 in PC & Video Games
• Brand: Electronic Arts
• Released on: 2010-11-19
• Rating: To Be Announced
• Number of discs: 1
• Platform: PlayStation 3
• Format: Unknown format
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 1.78 pounds

Features

• PEGI Rating Ages 3 and Over

Manufacturer's Description
Exercising with video games has become all the rage in recent years, but if you're serious about your health EA Sports Active 2 is the most fit for purpose. Using the latest motion sensing technology, this new version of the best-selling fitness program comes complete with new leg and arm straps and a heart monitor to track every element of your workout.

Sports Active 2 supports all three motion control systems

Bundled leg and arm straps help with many exercises

Use the heart rate monitor to track your progress

David Beckham is the "brand ambassador" for the game

For the first time you can even share your workout data via the online hub and check to see how your progress compares to friends and family. You can swap tips, become part of a regular workout group and swap messages to help you stay motivated.

In the workouts themselves you can take advantage of a new three-part, nine week program or customise your own regime using more than 70 individual exercises. Whatever your needs you can be sure this is the healthiest video game you've ever played.

Key Features

• Full Surveillance: Total body tracking no matter which console you own, with an innovative mixture of motion controls, custom peripherals and classic workout techniques.
• Added Extras: Only EA Sports Active 2.0 comes bundled with its own heart rate monitor, to provide a constant onscreen update of your performance.
• Group Activity: Join the online Active community and track your fitness data via automatic uploads. Join an online group and see how your progress compares to your friends.
• Varied Exercise: Use more than 70 exercises to design your own fitness program or take advantage of the new 9-week program designed by professional trainers.
• Controlling Motion: Works with the Wii remote motion controls and Xbox 360 Kinect systems.

Nike Low Impact Starter Pack DLC now available for EA SPORTS Active 2

 This new two-week workout program is available for purchase now for all connected PlayStation 3 users. This downloadable content will offer 6 new exercises and a two-week low impact program to keep your workouts fresh and engaging.

 Outfit your in-game avatar with Nike branded clothes and shoes, and work out in a Nike inspired exercise space. Earn an exclusive trophy for completing this workout program!

 All-new two-week program focusing on low impact exercises to keep you challenged and engaged! This downloadable content is available through a connected console.

 6 new exercises:

-          Front Shoulder Raises

-          Narrow Shoulder Raises

-          Alternating High Knee Reverse Lunges

-          Alternating Cross Over Lunges

-          Alternating Arm and Leg Lifts

-          Windshield Wipers

Sony Move hardware is not required for use of this product

About the Developer: EA Canada
EA's largest development studio is responsible for some of the biggest brands for EA Sports, including the FIFA series, NBA Live, NHL and SSX. They have also just taken over the Fight Night franchise. Their offices employ over a thousand staff, with three separate production studios.

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

80 of 81 people found the following review helpful.
Much improved on the first
By D. J. Roberts
Having used the first Sports Active on the Wii last year, I was very eager to get a copy of SA2; the various demos which had shown up on youtube etc looked very impressive indeed. I went for the PS3 version this time round as I wanted a 'hands free' experience. The unreliability of motion sensor control in the original version on the Wii was the only thing that let it down in my opinion, but there was no real way of getting round that.

So anyway - on to this version. Set up was a cinch; I've read about people having problems getting the wireless sensors to sync, but no such problems here. Straps on, synced up and ready to go. I signed up, made my profile etc. and then headed into a medium workout scheme over 20 days. All good stuff, and broke a sweat as expected (I might restart on the hard workout scheme with which I'm more familiar with from the Wii original). The absolute joy of not being pounded with death by squats is the most immediate improvement that this new version has implemented.

Yes, there are leg exercises, but they're not quite so harsh and are combined with other movements so you don't end up with dead legs. It also helps that you're not expected to do a jog or run as a warm-down - you actually get, in the last three/four exercises, a good series of muscle stretches to warm down properly, a little like the old yoga exercises on the Wii. This new version seems to be much more about 'all over' exercise whilst retaining the cardio-vascular conditioning elements of the first.

One thing - same problem as the original - if you've got arms stronger than an eight year old child, then the resistance cord isn't actually much use. I've been using a resistance tube that I bought to replace the cord in the original game, and it's far more demanding and effective than the packaged one.

So all in all, this is what it's supposed to be. The hands-free wireless system works well, the exercises have been updated, you break a sweat and feel nicely knackered afterwards.

Just remember though - if you really want to shed the pounds, you'll have to use this in conjunction with a healthy diet. I lost two stone with the original game in a month and a bit, but that was combined with a virtual crash diet (1000kcal a day intake). These games on their own will not really help you lose much weight if you gorge daily on pies and sweets. Saying that, any exercise is better than none, so go forth and have fun!

26 of 26 people found the following review helpful.
Excellent
By Michael Pritchard
I have to echo most of the comments by D.J. Roberts, never played it before on previous consoles as only have a PS3 but very impressed so far. I've been doing a fair bit of running over the summer and autumn but now the winter and dark nights have set in I can't get much done after work so this seemed ideal.

Few complaints:

I had trouble setting up the three receivers, it ended up being I didn't press the sync buttons long enough. The guide seems to indicate just press the button and it will sync, but the first time you sync them you have to keep the button pressed in until its recognised.

Talks about water breaks at various points but the gaps aren't long enough and i end up having to re-start some exercises, it would be nice if at these points you had to press a button to say you're ready to continue.

Other than that seems great value for money, at least on the PS3, seems odd the 360 version is same price but also requires Kinect (this doesn't use PS Move or the EyeCam).

UPDATE: Been using for 3 weeks now and still going strong, doing the 9 week program and have kept to it apart from one missed session, but you can catch up on missed sessions. Price drop now makes this even better value, was £65 now £50

31 of 32 people found the following review helpful.
Very Impressed, Got Me All Worked Out..Customisable... Ps3 the Best version too (?)
By Mr. A. G. Mchugh
Well I was umming and arring about getting this, I am a member of a gym, but havent been for a month (or three).

Anyways I saw it in a High Street Supermarket (for good price, though Amazon was still a few pennies cheaper) and decided to go for it, its snowing heavily outside and there was not much to do so thought it was worth a go, with the thought that I could trade it in and not lose too much.

I have never played the Wii, or any of these motion control games, but this title has a good reputation and intrigued me.

I had thought I would need the "Move" or "Eye" camera but the PS3 version come with all you need in the box (unlike xbox, which requires Kinect)

So I got home to my little flat (One bed, the kind of small block where you can hear the lady downstairs snoring, and the floorboards make noise as you walk about. This was a major reason why I would think the game would not be for me, I was aware you had to run / jump on the spot for some of the exercises, and I didnt want to upset her downstairs. This may be a major point for others, (will come back too)...

Okay so I set it up, was a bit niggly at first but if you set up each bit seperately you will get there (took me a maximum of 5 minutes). You set up your profile and on you go...I chose to start the 9 week course on a medium level, I am late 30's, used to be sporty, but now there is a couple of stone more of me than there should be. Forty mins later I was sweating, my heart rate was up, I felt like I had been nicely worked out. The system showed I had burned 250 cals, and I had done stretches that I hadnt done in ages...

However the one problem I had (as fore-shadowed earlier) was anything to do with running / jumping... in the standard workouts there is quite a bit of this. I put cushions under my feet, exagerrated my knee movements, I tried to cheat by sitting on the sofa and pump my arms and legs, but pretty much impossible to "get away with it". Again this is not the fault of the game, it is my unfortunate circumstance, but please bear this in mind all you fellow victims of the "House Price Boom" who live in such flats (sorry, just a little bit of politics / economics there), the cycling section (potentially one of the most "fun" tasks was a nightmare...

But, after thinking these sections would make the game unusable I found that you can easily create Customisable Workouts, either by yourself, or generated by your trainer. You can ask for a "core" or "upper body" workout out and knock out some of the events (such as the running) that you do not want to do... so I will definitely be keeping it.

I found the stretching/ core exercises excellant, and the skipping is "do-able" (ie do the full movement, but do not "skip") for cardio.

Greeat so now I can wake up, do my work out have my breakfast and go to work (unlike having to plan to go to the gym when its open, taking my gym stuff, carrying it around with me all day etc).

So even though for me it is a bit restricted, I do think I will get quite a bit out of it.

For the majority of folk I would say this is an absolutely great bit of kit, and would say go for it if you have any interest in such titles.

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