We posted our Report Card for Carnival Games Monkey See Monkey Do last month, and detailed our technical problems on getting the game to start up.  Since then, we've received a few comments from folks who had a similar issue.

When we turned on the Kinect, Carnival Games Monkey See Monkey Do let us know it was "Identifying" us.  We then were asked to sign in, and were given three choices.  1) Create Profile.  Selecting this option would inform us that all users need to be signed out.  2) Our Xbox Live Gamertag.  Selecting this option caused the Kinect to think, and kick us back to the title screen, where it would let us know it was "Identifying" us and present us with the three choices again.  3) Sign Out - All this did was sign us out of Xbox Live.

We tried all our other Kinect games to make sure it wasn't a problem with our sensor, and everything else worked fine.  We even pulled in extra lighting and tried starting at different times of day.  Neither of the three selections would work.

We finally figured out that in order to get started we had to choose the third option - Sign Out, and then choose the first option - Create Profile.  We then had to make up a name and choose a generic avatar.  After doing this we were able to play, but it was a bummer that we weren't able to use our own Xbox Live avatar and profile.

Once we got past these issues on start-up, we greatly enjoyed Carnival Games Monkey See Monkey Do, and it appears some of our readers have similar feelings.

GinaBina writes:

"I had the same issue with having to logout of the XBOXLive Profile and needing to create a new one to get started also. Needless to say, it was a pain. However, once I got started, the game was not too bad."


jenny123  says:
"My daughter HAD to have this game, so we I bought the xbox360 and the game for her birthday (I figured I would get some use out of the exercise games) but man, the hour and a half of my life I lost to trying to figure out why the -f- this $50 game wouldn't just work is lost! Thank you or I would have had no idea. I was ready to throw the controller though the TV."

A Beyer says:
"We bought this last night and tried it out. I had the same problem with it trying to "Identify" me. I was signed in when the game was started, but when my boyfriend and daughter tried playing they were able to play. I think what it is is that when the game is first inserted to the system to not be signed in at all and see what happens after that."

J. Ellis says:
"My girlfriend and I got this last night, I had the same problem about it not being able to recognize me and I wasn't able to use my xboxlive profile at all and had to create a dummy one =(. It recognized her perfectly though. Other than that we really enjoy this game a lot."