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By Gadjo Cardenas SevillaDance Central is one of the most surprising games we've experienced in a long time. The wizards at Harmonix Music Studios. MTV Games and Microsoft Game Studios have created a game that most people will think they are not inter...
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Dance is a complex mistress to tame, sparking off complex emotions in those who wish to dice in it. To others, it's simply an awesome medium of self-expression, leading even the perfect douche to form a mass following bigger than Jesus simply by acti...
Clear and enaging interface, Fantastic soundtrack, Great party game that's as much fun to watch as it is to take part in...
Bizarre 'Freestyle' segments tear out what makes the game enjoyable, No career mode and limited unlockables for solo players...
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Do I think I can dance? No way. I’m a middle-aged white guy that grew up in Calgary. That’s a place where the population’s inability to move with any fluidity resulted in group movement along a line being classified as dancing. It’s where we spent our...
Easy to navigate menus; good progression from beginner to expert; choreography deconstructed into basic, discreet movements that anyone can perform.
Make sure you’ve got lots of room to move; people living in postagestamp apartments may have to play elsewhere.
Just as Harmonix empowered everyone to play the music they love, now they’ve given us all a reason to get up and dance to it. In Break It Down, the complete choreography is split into three or four sections of three or four moves each. You prac...
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Kinect has become the flavour of the month in revolutionary gaming control. Needless to say everybody at the office was excited when the motion based peripheral finally arrived for a test run.We didn't get off to a good start with the Kinect after tryi...
Great songs and perfect motion tracking. Good weight loss and exercise solution...
Extremely difficult for those incapable of moving their bodies like 90% of our office.
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Tweet R-h-y-t-h-m as my music teacher used to drum into us week in week out at school. Why is that important?Because you’ll need plenty of it when it comes to playing Dance Central for the Kinect for Xbox 360. If you’ve been playing games for some tim...
Great fun, easy to play, colourful graphics, plenty of songs...
You'll need rhythm...
A great dancing game that will see you boogie in your living room...
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You might be thinking "not another dance game on the XBox 360 Kinect"? I was actually in the same boat because this new gaming device has a plethora of dancing games available for it. But Dance Central is actually a head above the rest and I'm guessing...
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Dance Central has been billed as the "killer app" for Kinect. It offers great entertainment but is cramped by a weak multiplayer component and a limited selection of music. A great foundation for a sequel to build upon...
Great singleplayer, slick interface, hours of entertainment.
Multiplayer is a disappointment. Tracklist missing a sense of fun.
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I haven’t felt this embarrassed or self conscious playing a video game since I first picked up a SingStar microphone many, many years ago. I thought I had purged myself of all inhibitions: park me in front of a console, place a drink in my hand, and I’...
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Out of all the Kinect games released at launch yesterday, Dance Central is easily the one that makes the best use of the technology. The motion sensing works well to detect if you've made the right moves, and each of the Easy/Medium/Hard routines in th...
Kinect tech works well when dancing, Wellchoreographed routines, Break It Down mode is helpful...
Relatively small song list, Annoying menu controls, Getting gouged for the good stuff via DLC...
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Here's what I liked about Dance Central: It lied to me. For the most part, the only feedback I had from the game came in the form of a glowing circle that widens or shrinks to tell me how much I'm scoring on a move, an occasional red glow on a charact...
Physically challenging, wide music selection, great party game, you can turn off the freestyle camera that records your most embarrassing movements...
Physically challenging, persnickety menu select system, tedious tutorial system, the sparkly butterfly mode itself cannot be turned off...
Dance Central asks a lot of you as a player. Not only do you have to get up off your couch, somehow create six to eight feet of space in your living room for Kinect to register your coordinated flailing as "dance moves" and actually dance, you also hav...
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Dance Central for Microsoft Kinect, from the folks that brought us Rock Band, is one music-based game you’ll be hearing lots more of that doesn’t force gamers to clasp plastic peripherals. Billed as the “first immersive dance video game”, Dance Cent...
One of the best games to play with mates ever...
Difficult to string move combos even on medium for novices, playing alone isn't the same...
Love dancing games? You need this...
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NowGamer, as a collective, have decades of gaming experience behind us. Hand us a controller and we’ll rip through any game – nothing is beyond us. So Dance Central proved quite a difficult one for us: now we are the controller, and we have much less d...
It won’t turn gamers into dancers, but it will give a great deal of entertainment to those who will let it. And this is no doubt the last we’ve seen of Dance Central, so perhaps our minor issues will be sorted in the future. 8.4/10Print this pageCommen...
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Like Wii and PlayStation Move, Kinect is perfectly suited to the dance and rhythm genre. Unlike its competitor’s motion-sensing products though, Kinect hosts the technology to take things to a whole new level and leave the others flagging behind. For t...
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Dance Central Spotlight brings the dance series down to its bare bones. Unlike its predecessors, it doesn't include a story mode or competitive multiplayer. What's more, if you're looking for a bit of variety in your music, you're going to have to buy it...
Improved fitness modes, Smooth learning curve, Kinect works well...
Scaled back multiplayer, Initial song variety...
Dance Central Spotlight takes advantage of Kinect 2.0 to better identify players' movements and creates a more seamless co-op experience. Though it feels like it moves a step back in the series' multiplayer potential, the hundreds of dance moves, great pr...
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