Let's Yoga and Let's Pilates are perfectly respectable exercise tools. What keeps them from being truly great pieces of software is their disinterest in embracing any sort of game mechanics. Wii Fit is a perfect example of an exercise tool that works a lot of traditional gameplay into its program. If Yoga and Pilates figured out how to make a game out of their routines, they could increase their audience beyond people who are already into yoga and pilates.
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Here is a bit of news that will get the male portion of 1UP's audience to perk their ears up a bit: Angelina Jolie not only allows her children to play videogames, but thanks to Konami's Let's Pilates for the Nintendo DS, Jolie is now reaping the benefits of the gaming age.
According to a report from SFGate.com, Jolie is using the the game to rid herself of that pesky baby weight she accumulated while carrying the twins she bore back in July. Through her son Maddox's DS, Jolie has been exercising using virtual pilates, and thanks to the loose lips of a family insider, 1UP knows that she "tries to get in an hour of pilates three times a week" and is apparently already at the hardest setting.
"My kids play video games. I let them play with toy soldiers", she said. "We don't take war and violence lightly, but we don?t hide it from anybody." The same goes for their movies -- they explain to their children that while they both may be acting violently in their movies, there is a big difference in real-life, even when playing a character like Lara Croft.
I always thought she needs to gain weight. Her bony legs looks like something you would expect from a skeleton. Not a live woman.
i can't believe this is a top story on N4G. i didn't realize fanboys had time to worship actors as well...
... it's losing weight!
She's skinny as a stick the last few years. She looked MUCH better a bunch of years ago, when she did Gia and Tomb Raider etc.
She looks absolutely horrible nowadays. Eat some food, woman! She had the perfect body and now she looks like she hasnt eaten in weeks.
She better be playing Cooking Mama.
Its good that she lets her kids play what they want, but still talk about the difference between the real world and the virtual world. More parents should be like that.
CSM Writes:
"Although it can't replace the expertise and real-time feedback of a human instructor, Let's Pilates does an admirable job of using an animated model to demonstrate each exercise in several steps complete with instructions presented in both text and voice-over. The atmosphere is relaxing and the background music is pleasant, making Let's Pilates a more than passable substitute if you'd rather do Pilates at home instead of signing up for classes. The voice-overs and visuals mean that even younger players can follow along with the instructions, and they'll appreciate the game-like unlockable tasks in Challenge mode."
