After taking iPhones and bored commuters by storm Half Brick’s fruit based slicing action game makes the leap to Xbox 360 Kinect as part of the Xbox Live Winter of Arcade Games.

While not adding anything revolutionary over the original, flailing wildly in front of your television is a much more involving exercise than waving your finger over your phone.

Die! Die you magic points boosting turnip!

If you’re familiar with Fruit Ninja all ready, well this is pretty much Fruit Ninja, just with your television and an Xbox and a great deal of waving your arms and making Bruce Lee type Kung Fu noises.

If you’re uninitiated in the ways of Fruit Ninja then… how is that even possible? I mean it’s one of the most popular smart phone games of all time. Anyway, your terrifying pop culture ignorance aside, it’s pretty simple. Fruit flies onto the screen and you need to slice it before it falls back down, extra points for combos and so on, and you lose one of three lives every time you miss a piece. There are also the ominous hissing bombs and hitting one of these is instant game over. In addition to this classic mode there’s an arcade style mode where you try and score as many points as possible in a minute and a never ending ‘zen mode’ for grannies with no bombs.

Two seconds after these screenshot this pair slapped each other in the face. The divorce was ugly

You slice fruit by swinging your hands across the screen, and if you’re limber enough throw a few kicks in there too. The Kinect controls are extremely accurate with a shadow of your outline on screen at all times so you know where you’re being tracked.

The worst thing about this Xbox adaptation of Fruit Ninja is that there really isn’t anything new on offer. Multiplayer can be played with someone standing right next to you, as opposed to the mobile version which required a connection and someone willing to play. The one problem with this multiplayer is that, as the game focuses on your torso, it has some problems tracking people of considerably varying heights. Playing with my twelve year old was a little difficult.

Is that Vanilla Ice? It totally looks like a silhouette of Vanilla Ice.

Despite lacking any major innovation over the original Fruit Ninja Kinect is still as ridiculously good fun as its older mobile sibling. It’s a perfect party and family game but you’ll often find yourself sneaking in a few games in your underpants when you’re on your own. The last two times I’ve flicked on my 360 I’ve loaded the Fruit Ninja up over other unfinished retails games and pushed back the ottoman without even realizing I’d decided to play it. Fruit Ninja might not be complex or deep, but its fun and chock full of reward. A hard game not to enjoy.