[quote name='Raccoon2117']I have Your Shape, and while I do enjoy some aspects of it, based on what I've read about EA Sports Active, Your Shape is comparable to a warm-up while EA Active is the workout, given it apparently has a multi-week program that you can do.[/QUOTE]
I would disagree with this. Your Shape has plenty of full workouts, and you can certainly string together workouts and exercises.
What Your Shape lacks and what EA Sports Active's strength is is the number of included programs and the ability to design your own. This is a terrible omission from Your Shape and shameful when you realize they didn't include this so that they could do it themselves and sell it to you as DLC.
The two are good in tandem. I find that alternating days with them helps break monotony and boredom.
[quote name='Raccoon2117']One thing I don't like about Your Shape is that when they introduce a new exercise, you have to perfect it--in "rhythm"--before you can move on. Needless to say, I've quit the routines a couple times because while I have been doing what the exercise calls for, I have failed to get credit for it.[/QUOTE]
And yet I hate that Sports Active waits for you to fulfill whatever its sensors determine is "enough" -- this is mainly a complaint against the first one, but I've read tons of comments that lag and unregistered moves are still frequent on Sports Active 2.
I have sworn and talked back to Sports Active so many times because it doesn't recognize my actions. It had me dying to get back to Your Shape which may ding you for not completing something, but at least won't stop dead in its tracks while you try and figure out what is displeasing it.
Anyway, both have strengths and flaws. Both are good together because once you get tired/annoyed with one, you can use the other. I'm avoiding EA Sports Active 2 because of the high failure rate and the annoyances that haven't been corrected from the first.