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823 of 839 persons found the following review helpful.
Just Dance 2 is a worthy successor to the original
By Nutwiisystem.Com
The introductory Just Dance was the initial dance video game to feature “real moves” to popular music. Before it, dance games were basically exercises in timing–stomping your feet on a mat or moving your hands to match an on-screen pattern. But with Just Dance, you weren’t just playing a video game: you were learning real dance moves that you could take anywhere. And as you played the game over and over, you got a outstanding workout without even knowing it. The game was a smash success, merchandising over 4 million copies worldwide. The game wasn’t without it is faults though, the greatest of which was the accuracy of the motion control. Even if you did the moves perfectly, now and again the system wouldn’t register them.
When you start out out the game, the starting menu is refreshingly simple. There are three options: Dance!, Store, Extras. When you click “Dance!”, you see three options: Just Dance, Dance Battle, and Just Sweat.
The “Just Dance” option gets you right to dancing to person songs, just like in the original. Up to four players may play, each keeping their own Wii remote. As in the original, you try to follow a mirror effigy of a silhouetted figure on the screen. Stick figures scrolling along the bottom of the screen will help you prepare for the next move, an indicator on the screen will tell you how well you hit your moves, and a “score gauge” will fill up with each rectify move you make.
There’s a great selection of 44 new songs, with something for everyone. Whether you want to dance to Elvis Presley’s “Viva Las Vegas” or Outkast’s “Hey Ya”. I like Ubisoft’s approach; while other music games tend to focus on just one genre, Ubisoft included something for all ages and tastes.
Some of the songs feature “Duet Mode”. These songs are identified by circle icon with two figures standing with their back to each other. This is a neat new feature that allows two players to dance alongside each other with each doing dissimilar choreographed moves, so you end up dancing a neat little routine together. For example, in Avril Lavigne’s “Girlfriend”, the dancers commence by pointing to each other. Then, one makes air guitar-like moves for a while while the other swings her arms. Then, the two go back to synchronized motions. It makes for a cute dance routine.
The “Dance Battle” option takes players through five rounds of competition. Up to four players may compete versus each other, and the winner of each round gets a point. The player with the most points at the end of rounds is the winner. You may mix and match from these modes to construct dissimilar competitions:
- Classic: In this mode, players “just dance”. The player with the most eminent overall score gets a point.
- Duet: This mode comprises of all the “Duet Mode” songs. The player in the pair who scores the most eminent gets a point.
- Simon Says: In this game, while dancing an icon will appear randomly for each play while dancing (Stop, spun around, clap). The player will have to carry out the action accurately to score points.
- Medley: In this mode, each player has to dance to five song samples.
- Race: This is a frenetic mode where each player has to fill their score gauge to win the round.
“Team Battle” is the same as “Dance Battle”, except that it allows up to 8 players to play in two teams (they don’t all play at the same time, the scheme will discerned the players in the teams and display the players’ names when it’s their turn). This is great to have at parties where you have may get lots of people playing together and rooting their own team on.
My bestloved new feature, of course, is “Just Sweat” mode. In it, you set an goal to be attained of calories you want to burn, and then you just dance away until they’re burned off. 30 minutes dancing sure beats 30 minutes on a boring treadmill or exercise bike, as you not only burn calories away, you get exercise learning the choreographed dance moves. And after dancing to the fast part of “Proud Mary”, let’s say I have newfound wonderment for Tina Turner!
The new “Store” option allows you to buy downloadable content, which will even further exaggerate the playability of this title.
And now the answer to the burning question you’ve been waiting for: did they in truth fix the poor motion tracking?
The answer is, happily, yes! Even though the game still uses only one Wii remote, and still doesn’t even need MotionPlus, I’m happy to say that the motion tracking picked up my motions closely perfectly. It was even exact not just to my timing, but also my arm movements and angles. The game developers made a tremendous betterment over the primary in this department.
Overall, Just Dance 2 is a worthy successor to the original. The bettered motion tracking is just what the doctor ordered, and they made the game even more fun for persons playing together. Highly recommended.
134 of 138 humans found the following review helpful.
More moves…more options…more sweat…more FUN!
By JustNancy
I may officially say that this is the primary game I have ever pre-ordered and it was well worth the wait! I have been using the initial version as my cardio workout for the past four months and was excited, yet hesitant, for the new one to arrive. The dance moves are unquestionably more immediate and more difficult than the initial version, with a great new mix of songs. I was intimidated at first, but my 12 year-old daughter and I played each song we chosen a couple of times to get the moves down. We ended the session with an exhausting two rounds of Proud Mary…WOW…that one will unquestionably be a part of my daily workout! I can’t wait to undertake more songs and the “Just Sweat It Off” mode tonight to actually measure the calories I’m burning. Burning calories has never been this much fun!
101 of 104 persons found the following review helpful.
Better get your hands off my game – Mom
By L. Kalman
First of all, I’m 40, Mom, I have 2 kids.
I have Just Dance, and I was on the fence when it comes to this game until I read the song list.
I LOVE this game. My kids LOVE it. We play “duet” mode perpetually retail places on the dance floor.
My kids are among 7 and 10 and the songs have been edited so any undesirable lyrics have been “omitted”. I’ve only seen it occur on the song “toxic”, but I was impressed that they did that. With Just Dance, Katy Perry sings Hot and Cold and a couple of lyrics could have been omitted without losing the song.
I’m likewise altogether impressed with the potpourri of genres they have covered. We dance hip hop, latin, disco, techno, and electronic… totally made me want to buy a lot of glow sticks, have a rave. Unbelievably fun workout. If we had the space for 8 persons to dance, I’d get more controllers.
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