Dance Moves
Dance Moves
Dancing Made Easy With Kinect Dance Central
MTV Games and Harmonix created a new game that will allow you to play and learn new dance moves at the same time. The company that launched this game is also the company that launched a popular game called Rock Band a few years ago.
Using the Kinect motion sensor technology, a player doesnt need a controller in order to play this game. The Kinect Camera Technology can detect the movements of the player and translate it into a game avatar. Another great feature of this game is that it has the capability to follow voice commands, and can capture face and hand gestures as you groove to the beat of the game.
Amateurs wont have problems with this game, because it offers a feature called Break It Down system that will teach amateurs the step by step instructions on how to play the game. This system will show you where to place your hands and feet, while providing instant feedback as you groove.
Kinect Dance Central is just like the other Kinect dancing games, where a player will continuously receive feedback as they move throughout the game. This will help them improve, gradually turning them into professional dancers. If you would like to compete with your friends, all you have to do is to follow the movements of the character on-screen and the winner will be determined by the accuracy of how the player mimicked the character.
You can choose from a wide variety of songs, with more than six hundred moves to learn and follow. This game also features popular artists including Lady Gaga herself and her hit single Poker Face and some of the all-time favorite songs like Brick House. In conclusion, this game, Kinect Dance Central, allows anyone of all ages to enjoy the process of learning how to dance. This game is also one of the best ways to spend some quality time with your family.
Dance Central 2
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- Featuring another killer soundtrack.
- New simultaneous multiplayer.
- All-new dance crews.
- As Real as It Gets. Dance Central 2 provides detailed feedback for each player and, for the first time, enables voice commands within the practice process!
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Get ready for the sequel to the best-selling dance game for Kinect for Xbox 360. Dance Central 2 keeps the wildly addictive Dance Central experience going with a new focus on simultaneous multiplayer. Friends can now team up in Perform It or go head-to-head in a simultaneous dance off within Dance Battle. Additionally, players can seamlessly drop in or out at any point during a song, so the party never has to stop!
Dance Central 2
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Dance Moves question by roy: How can i learn some cool dance moves?
If you ever had seen the dancer adam sevani from stup up 2 and 3. I want to learn moves like that! I want to get into dance.
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Excellent doesn’t do it justice….,
For those of you who have the Kinect, Dance Central was THE game to get for it. With songs like “Poison” and “Brick House”, it was the first game that actually made me want to get off my butt and dance. Though – to be fair, Kinect Sports and Kinect Adventures are great games in their own right, there’s nothing quite like the feeling you get when your dance moves sends your friend crying off to mommy. Haha – but in all seriousness, Dance Central made dancing fun. With Break it Down mode, you could learn moves at your own pace, and the actual song never stopped just because you weren’t doing so well that one time.
If you didn’t think it could get any better, trust me — it does. The main feature to come to Dance Central 2 is the ability of two people to play at the same time. The function works well enough, though it does get awkward depending on which songs you do. It’s actually not a fault of the Kinect, just that one person’s body movements sometimes gets in front of yours, and it confuses the game. A nice addition to the game is that when you pick a song, before you play it, the game actually does a little preview of the dance moves involved with the songs – a nice quick way to see how difficult the moves actually are (or aren’t).
You also can import your songs from the original Dance Central, unfortunately – you have to pay for the privilege. I really shouldn’t have to spend Microsoft Points to redownload the songs – just allow me to store the songs from Dance Central on the HDD or USB stick, and play them from there in Dance Central 2. Also, one of the commentors had mentioned that the dancers don’t do their little quirky sayings and moves in the beginning of songs anymore. He’s correct, but I’m sure I like it or not. Having them making random sayings or moves gave them personality – almost making me choose one over the others. Maybe it’s just me though….
One more thing that can be hit or miss: the game now allows you to go through menus and change options by the regular hand swipes, or with your voice. The voice recognition does work, but I’ve noticed that it sometimes has a hard time picking up your voice when you’re in a song. I really don’t like having to turn my TV down when I’m singing “Break Your Heart” by Taio Cruz, ok Harmonix??
Those are really the only three things I can say that are somewhat a negative to this fantastic sequel. They also changed up the songs somewhat – picking some more 90s and today’s hits, like “What is Love?” by Haddaway and “Baby Got Back” by Sir Mix-A-Lot. I have to say it – flawless performance on this, Harmonix. Another thing I enjoyed: Dance Battles just got a whole lot more interesting. Instead of having Freestyle like in Perform It mode, they took it out, and put in Freestyle Moves, where the game shows you 4 different moves, and each person can choose whichever they want to perform, but if you and the other player start performing the SAME move, you basically go head-to-head to see who can finish the move correctly FIRST. I can’t tell you how much more fun and competitive that made Dance Battles. Also something to note – Dance Central 2 introduced Gold Moves, which are worth 4x the points. And yes – Gold Moves are in Freestyle Moves (can’t tell you how much of a competition that creates).
Between the awesome selection of music to the once-again awesome and nice twist of humor in the move names (Sir Mix-It-Up, Funky Charleston just a few of the ones I noticed), Dance Central 2 proves that if you just put the time and effort into it, sequels really can be better than the originals….
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|Dancing Has Returned to the Xbox – Better Than Ever,
When you think about the Kinect, there are a handful of games that come to mind. Without doubt, Dance Central has earned its spot in the Kinect Hall of Fame. There are dance games and then there is Dance Central. Millions of fans have benefited from the fun approach of dance instruction and often club floors are living testimony of Dance Centralfs impact. Now, the DC crew is back and better than ever in Dance Central 2 for Kinect.
FEATURES
There are many positive things to talk about with Dance Central 2. Immediately you will notice the clean interface and ease of menu navigation. The original version of DC was already clean, but Harmonix took their time to make navigation even more of a breeze. This aided tremendously by the addition of voice commands. Within seconds of popping in the game, you can be dancing. For me, all it took was literally saying, gXbox, dance, song, Like a G6, XBox danceh. And off I went.
For those that have already played the first Dance Central and even purchased songs, everything is ready to transfer directly into Dance Central 2. Purchased songs will automatically show up in Dance Central 2s playlist. To carry over all the songs from the original Dance Central, you will need the code that came with the first game and 400 MS Points (5 USD). The transition is smooth, but you will need a harddrive or USB drive, as well as a connection to the internet. Once the songs carry over, everything is integrated into the game. Your play list becomes HUGE. All of Dance Central 2s new features are supported except the option to skip the freestyle part of the song.
The new game play modes are subtle, but add a lot of play value to Dance Central 2. My personal favorite new additions include the ability to make my own playlists and the Dance Crew challenges. There are already a decent amount of pre-made playlists, but you are able to pick your own songs for some killer back-to-back dancing sessions. As for the Dance Crew challenges, this is as close as you are going to get in a story mode for the game. Essentially, you meet a Dance Crew, dance the selected songs, and unlock the next crew. This makes it more of an immersive game versus dancing for the heck of it.
One huge bonus of Dance Central 2 is the ability to have two players, either playing cooperatively or battling it out. The second player can hop in and out of the game with ease and at any time. Like the song? Jump in and play. That easy.
One of the main niceties of playlists is for working out. Our Kinect to Fitness and Health group has already seen great success in people losing up to and over 100 pounds from playing the original Dance Central. On top of the improvements already mentioned, the workout mode now has its own screen in Dance Central 2. Calories are tracked from every activity, including Break It Down mode. When doing the playlists, the songs flow from one to another without interruption. What I absolutely LOVE is how quickly you now move into the song. No more waiting for your dancer to bounce around and talk buckets of smack. They might do a quick move and a few words, but nothing like the original Dance Central. And finally, when the dancing is done, the calories are added all up. The calorie tracker may not be totally correct (no weight or gender asked), but you definitely have an idea of how close you are to burning off that Halloween candy.
Break It Down mode has returned and has been made more inviting for us impatient folks. The same mode from the original has returned, but with added voice control. There is a sweet satisfaction in yelling, gskiph after being told to perform ehitch a ridef for the millionth time. Better yet, for the returning veterans, you will be able to pick out certain steps to learn, versus learning the routine. And for the curious mind that wants to know exactly what they are doing, you can shout, grecord videoh and a video of you dancing a particular move will show up behind the dance leader for comparison.
The final added feature that really brightened my day was the cleaned up store-front. The first Dance Central had the ability to buy extra songs, but was made cumbersome by having to pull up an extra menu and scroll through a few songs at a time. The new store is built into the game and is just as easy to navigate as the playerfs song list is. With a quick flick of the wrist, you can be jamming to James Brown in no time.
GRAPHICS AND SONGS
Despite all the nifty new features, the dividing point between Dance Central 2 and Just Dance 3 seems to be the songs and the graphics. Ifll have a more detailed comparison of these two games up later. As for Dance Central 2, the graphics are very similar, but have definitely had an overall. Character models are similar, but backgrounds and special effects have been smoothed out and upgraded. The game is…
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