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Unexpectedly Awesome

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I was skeptical when I bought the game, but now I am convinced: Elite Beat Agents is astoundingly fun and will keep you coming back for more!

The Good:
- Four difficulties let you learn gradually; the first teaches you the basics and the last challenges you to become a true EBA master!
- Innovative gameplay; I've never played a game like this before - puts other rhythm games to shame!
- Great songs; nothing's better than tapping along to the beat of your favorites!
- Immense amount of replay value. It's very addicting to keep trying to get your best score; it's even more addicting to challenge your friends (only one game pack required [limited choices, more with two copies of the game]).
- My mom even likes this game! :P

The Bad:
- If you don't know or don't like many of the songs in the game, it would take a lot away from the fun.
- It is sometimes hard to know when and how to keep the beat, until you try it a few times - that is part of the fun, but it can be frustrating.
- We want more songs! The game is pretty long, but that doesn't stop you from wanting more!

Bottom Line: An awesome addition to any DS collection; a must-have, in my opinion.

Easy at first....then you unlock Sweatin' and Hard Rock...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: April 08, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is probably my favorite game for DS so far. Everyone in my household likes it and they aren't even gamers. Although you do need gamer reflexes to play the Harder difficulties it's still fun for all ages.

Hard. Fun and original, but hard.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 17, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Elite Beats Agents is pure goodness. Finally, a really good rhythm game for the DS. There are 19 songs for you to tap, drag, and spin to with your stylus to save the world with the magic of song. Quirky, fun concept with awesome gameplay. Hell, it even makes Avril Lavigne sound good. However, it gets real hard real quick. The last stages... hurt. But, that's the only flaw I could pick out. In other words, you should really get this game. Or (and, actually) import Ouendan!

Simple, silly but at times a pain in the...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 01, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Despite Nintendo's past ill-conceived ideas such as sticking with cartridges over CD format for their Nintendo 64, promoting GBA-Gamecube Connectivity over Online, now and then they nail it on the head and shows why they don't just pump out similar titles like everyone else. With the DS's touch screen, many unique concepts over the years have popped up. Some seem tacked-on such as Dawn of Sorrow's or just simple menu displays but on occasion, a game exclusively features it. Elite Beat Agents is surprisingly addictive when you feel like the song is at least a little in your head, other times it can get frustrating easily.

Story: It's a kooky story so don't expect nothing fancy. 3 Agents decide to save people's problems through music so we have little vignettes ranging from saving a babysitter from crazy kids to a washed-up ballplayer getting his groove back to stuck-up celebrity sisters stranded on an island.

Graphics: Very nice indeed. The entire thing has a very comic book feel and presentation and visuals are nicely done. It shines during its story scenes where it's quite animated and fluid. Your main play area isn't really nothing to write home about but that wasn't the point of them anyway.

Sound/Music: Of course it's entirely music driven so it's good audio quality considering DS's tiny speakers and whatnot. There's several voice clips like when a story character needs help, they actually scream "help!" while your commander yells "Agents are...GO!". My one complaint is that while easily identifiable songs allow easy knowledge of beats, some songs you've never heard before might make it difficult to follow long since you can barely hear it.

Gameplay: Similar in a way to PaRappa the Rapper or San Andreas' music minigame except this time the button presses have to be tapped. Circles appear on the 2nd screen which have to be tapped at a certain point and thanks to a shrinking halo, you tap when that one meets the main circle. The circles are numbered so you know the timing and color coordinated so you don't tap any circle that pops up. Some circles have to be dragged, keeping your stylus on the ball that travels in a line. These are all pretty fun and easy to get into but sometimes it's hard to tell when you should make your move for the next circle since some come immediately after rather than a bit of a breathing room.

Using licensed songs, some seem note perfect(pun intended) for the rhythm-based game such as YMCA and even of all songs, Sk8er Boi, yes that one. Others though I've never even heard of which makes it difficult to know your timing, especially when you have to double-tap circles or quickly drag the stylus. One particular song was so all over the place I lost the mission easily, not because of poor gameplay but because of lack of familiarity with the song. Something like Another Brick in the Wall Part II or, would've been expensive but movie themes like Star Wars. Some though are quite good such as a cover of Chicago's "You're My Inspiration" which comes with a surprisingly touching story involving a girl and her father.

Song choices iffy? Yep but is it fun and addictive? Holy crap is it ever. It's not quite as pain in the *** as Trauma Center but there can and will be trouble spots but the desire to beat that stage is always there which is quite something.

MUSIC MADDNESS GOODNESS

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 05, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I was turned onto Dance Dance Revolution not too long ago and I always loved Final Fantasy music. Ever scince, I have always liked music games.
THIS IS A VERY GOOD MUSIC GAME!

Even for those that don't listen to a lot of music, and thoses that like the classics will especially love this! There are a total of 19 songs (three of which are unlockable). You would think you would get tired of hearing these same songs but you really don't! The game uses the DS touch scree so well along with the funny story on the top makes it non stop fun!

RECOMENDED FOR ANYONE WITH A DS!

DDR meets Guitar Hero on the Nintendo DS

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 19, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is great and is a must have for the DS. The premise of this game is a fun one as you are part of a fictional government agency that goes around helping people by cheering them on and giving them the motivation to complete tasks.

The game play is simple in it's concept: music plays and you touch the DS screen where indicated with precise timing and movements based on the music. Meanwhile, the Elite Beat Agents dance in step with your stylus' motions. You accumulate points and little bonuses for completing the motions and are given a rating. Score enough points and get good ratings unlocks ranks and a few new tracks and missions.

The graphics for this game are as gorgeous unlike much of what has seen on the DS to this point. And the music selection is great as actual song tracks are borrowed from pop radio, but limited to 19 songs including the locked tracks.

The game is seriously addictive and as funny as anything you can get with an E 10+ rating.

My only criticism of the game comes from the game layout. As you play the Elite Beat Agents dance on the bottom screen where one is trying to focus on touching the stylus at the right place at the right times, this makes watching their cheerleading/ dancing kind of difficult. However, you can replay your last run through the track and watch, but it's four minutes of doing nothing.

This is definately one of the top ten games for the DS availble now.

Potential, lost due to poor soundtrack

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 23
Date: December 28, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I had played Ouendan, the japanese game this game was modeled after, and while they play basically the same, the original was much better. This is primarily due to the fact that the soundtrack for Elite Beat Agents was terrible. The songs in Ouendan were popular Jpop, and had fairly catchy tunes. Elite Beat Agents uses either unheard of or ancient songs such as YMCA. Basically, it seems like they just looked for the cheapest music licenses they could find. It could have been an awesome "sequel" for those of us who played ouendan, but instead it ended up being a major disappointment.

This would be 5 stars if not for the Soundtrack.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 6
Date: April 23, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I like Elite Beat Agents. It's fun and addicting and a guilty pleasure of wasting time away in this Rythmn based game. It's more Dance Dance Revolution with a stylus than Guitar Hero by it's theme of dancing to a beat.

Unfortunately, it's not a 5 star game.

The biggest drawback against this game is the soundtrack. Would I want to play a game to the beat of Averill Lavigne, Ashleey Simpson or Good Charlotte? No (and I don't care if I mispell their names, they all suck). Am I forced to do so? Yes. Are there any secret songs and levels to unlock? Yes. Are the secret songs good? If you like Cher and Destiny's Child, yes. If you don't like the secret songs, Please pray the sequel has "Carry on My wayward son" included on the soundtrack for redemption.

Some levels have good and funny storylines like the Baseball Player named Hulk who revives his baseball career by taking on a Volcano Monster. Other stories can be dismal. Like the Nurse who kills viruses for a track star to get healthy from his cold to Ashlee Simpson's song "La La". Maybe my tastes are different than others, If you're into more than half or even two-thirds of the tunes in this track, good for you. It's a 5 star game to plunk money and time and energy to advance through a painstaking level with Hoobastank.

I suggest you play this game at an Airport or an Airplane that doesn't have a good inflight movie or if you're just bored out of your mind.

Great Game. Lousy Soundtrack. That's why the 4 stars.

BEST.GAME.EVER!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: July 08, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I absolutely loveee this game. If you like DDR, then you'll love this game. It's the best game in the whole world and you could probably play it all day!
The only downside is that its a bit laggy when the game is almost done, you have to wait a while to get your score. I think there also should be a freeplay mode where you don't have to watch/read the storyline, although the comics are quite funny and interesting (and also pretty corny).

Fun game, horrible covers

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: July 17, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Since I am tremendously over the age of 10, my opinion may not count for much here, but I feel compelled to weigh in.

Elite Beat Agents is a weird, very fun game that is simple to learn considering that all you do is tap circles, roll a ball, and spin a wheel with the stylus in time to music. And that's it. It can be frustrating, but it is the the kind of frustration that makes you want to come back for more.

The Japanese-style animation is ok, but not worth all of the raves given to it. This is just a game, and there is only so much they can put on a chip. You want animation, see Ghost In The Shell.

The unforgivable thing about this game is, surprisingly, some of the music. Considering that this game is being played mostly by kids who probably never heard the original versions of Deep Purple's "Highway Star" or Stray Cats' "Rock This Town", it's a crime. Nintendo botched "Highway Star", but they murdered "Rock This Town". I wonder what Brian Setzer thinks of it.

I'm only about halfway through the game, and I think that so far, the only actual real music artist on here was the guy from Jamaroqui, and it doesn't look like he even got a credit...

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