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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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If you’re a Kinect owner but have yet to lay hands on a copy of Dance Central or Dance Central 2, you’re really doing yourself a disservice as an owner of that particular accessory. However, if you’ve held out until now for whatever reason, Dance Centr...
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With the launch of the new Microsoft Kinect, gamers have two choices when it comes to dancing in front of their TV. On one hand you have the arcade, DDR-style of gameplay found in DanceMasters, and then you have the more realistic “let’s learn to dance...
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Have you ever been to a bar or a club and saw people dancing and decided to become a wallflower rather than join in on the festivities? Perhaps you have witnessed entertaining dance sequences at a wedding, but only opted to join in on the slow dances...
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evergeek.com Updated:
2016-11-15 01:37:14
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The spirit of dance is a wonderful thing. It's active, it's social, it's fun - but it's not the easiest thing to recreate in a video game. And while there have been popular dancing titles in the past like Dance Dance Revolution, to date the essence of...
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gaming-age.com Updated:
2016-11-15 01:37:14
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The first game review out of the gate for Kinect has to be Dance Central from the Rock Band developers at Harmonix. I say that it has to be simply because it's the best game the Kinect has going for it, and it's definitely worth checking out if you pla...
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There's a distinct turning point during a playthrough of Dance Central when everything finally falls into place. Up to that moment, you've been feeling rather silly, moving your arms all over the place like a robot, very much aware that if anyone were...
There's a distinct turning point during a playthrough of Dance Central when everything finally falls into place. Up to that moment, you've been feeling rather silly, moving your arms all over the place like a robot, very much aware that if anyone were...
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gamepro.com Updated:
2016-11-15 01:37:15
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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 *gulp* actually dance, you...
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...
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With hit creations like the Guitar Hero franchise and Rock Band, Harmonix has earned its reputation as a studio that gets music-based games right. So when Harmonix threw its hat over the dance game fence -- an area pretty much owned by Konami's Dance D...
Wide variety of music and dance styles; great tutorial system; trademark Harmonix style and polish.
Shoddy dance recognition for some steps; multiplayer and workout modes are weak; dancers are canned and egomaniacal.
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With the music game genre in the midst of a cataclysmic decline, developer Harmonix has found itself in a precarious situation. After continuously declining sales over the last few years for the marquis music game brands (Guitar Hero and Rock Band), th...
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gamespot.com Updated:
2016-11-15 01:37:15
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Dance video games are not a new phenomenon, but the full-body tracking capabilities of the Kinect have created a new controller-and-mat-free opportunity for the genre to strut its stuff. Enter Dance Central, a game that invites experienced move busters...
Great visuals are both invigorating and informative, Wide breadth of dance complexity, Helpful training mode, Hard to resist dancing along with your friends.
Weird photo functionality.
Dance Central welcomes wallflowers and hot steppers out on the dance floor with great routines and engaging visuals...
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I was frequenting my local drinking establishment the other week, when an excitable barman began goading us into a corner of the room where a Wii was set up. I frowned and took a generous swig of my drink; I would have put money on the game being eithe...
Great use of the Kinect technology, Fantastic character models, Not a whole lot to the single player experience, No option to share photos / videos...
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1up.com Updated:
2016-11-15 01:37:15
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The unfettered compulsion to shake what my mother gave me can be traced back to the days of In Living Color. As a hyperactive third grader with a penchant for hamming it up, I had no shame publicly recreating the carefully choreographed moves of the Fl...
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ign.com
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2016-11-15 01:37:15
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It takes a special kind of bravery to get up in front of a group of friends and dance around like a crazy person. In Dance Central, the first Kinect-friendly party game from the talented folks at Harmonix, players will need a fair helping of that brave...
Dance Central is great fun, it gets you moving, and it's absolutely perfect for parties. Although it's disappointing to see so few features and unlocks included, the actual song selection, dance routines, and the accuracy of the Kinect implementation i...
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