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Game has potential, but one fatal bug

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 9
Date: October 02, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I am a longtime fan of the Dance Dance Revolution series and own virtually every game in the series, US or Japanese. And while I go back and play most of my older games regularly, I never play this one. Why? Because of one bug.

Due to a programming glitch, the "Dance Play Settings" menu was omitted. As a result, it is impossible to disable the corner buttons on a dance mat without a gameshark or similar modification device. The corner buttons are enabled to allow play with a regular controller, but are not intended for use with a dancepad. Of course, since this game is designed for a dancepad, this is a problem. With the corner buttons on, this game constantly registers mis-hits on my steps and is basically unplayable.

Konami should not have released this game with this bug, and they should have offered an update for free with a bugfix. As it, the game is unplayable.

Some things don't get better with age...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: April 08, 2006
Author: Amazon User

DDR Extreme is all wrong. Most songs aren't even moderately challenging, even on heavy mode. The workout mode makes no sense to me; it will track your calories but you still have to play in game mode. This means that every 3 songs, you have to go through the whole loading process again. In DDR Max 2 the workout mode is different...you can play 400 songs if you want, without starting over. The nonstop mode is also frustrating as you can't customize it. That means you might start with a song on light mode, 1x even though you want to play heavy mode 2x.
Also, the new song engine is awkward but I could deal with it were the songs worth playing.

I agree with the person that said this is basically a waste of $40. I've had the game since its release and I've played it about 3 times; it frustrates me and I go back to Max2.

Dance review

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 21, 2008
Author: Amazon User

We did not care for this product. The screen makes us dizzy looking at it. The Disney dance revolution was a lot of fun though.

SUCKS

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 14
Date: July 03, 2005
Author: Amazon User

the way this game is set up is extremely lame. if you loved ddr max and even more so ddr max 2 you're going to hate this. the songs suck, the layout sucks, this game SUCKS. the only thing cool is it makes a graph of your weight vs how many calories you burn each time you play. it's not worth it. a pure waste of 40 dollars.

Uhhhhhhhhhh..... What Happened.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 12
Date: February 26, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Many People (including myself.) love Dance Dance Revolution Alot!!! Some people go as far as to do nothing else but strut their stuff for this game. But DDR Extreme while tring to make a better game loses something very good. Long gone are the vertical scroll menus and are replaced with a supposedly easier menu. Konami made the menus easy for beginers, but experts will fumble around a while looking for a hard song. The color system for the songs are non existnt and you have to enter two or more menus to get to a song. This does make difficulty selection a bit easier because now you select the difficulty before the song. So those who didn't like double tapping the up and down arrows to select diffculty will be relived.
Oh yeah the songs are sometimes a level off when it comes to dif. a song that is 7 dif. will probally be a 6 or 8. The songs ARE NOT THAT GOOD!!! for every good song like Tusagaru (sorry for the misprint.) there are 10 song that are not good. Instead of party mode, they should have put more songs on there. My advice: wait until next year, Buy the Japanesse version if you have an import PS2, play at the arcade, or play last year's edition (which is probally the best version.)
Die hard fans and newbies will love it, the rest of us, just walk away slowly. Very, Very, Slowly!! (P.S. I'm Not a kid and no i'm am not a adult either.)

overall awsome

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 12
Date: October 03, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I absoulutly would buy this only if you know how to play ddr and if you dont know then it would be a little enberrissing. I know how to play the game really well cause ive been paying for a year or so

Not like the arcade game

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: March 08, 2007
Author: Amazon User

If you are looking for all your favorite songs that you find on the arcade version, you won't find it here. The idea of this game is still the same but you only have a limited amount of songs and most of the more popular songs are not on the consoule version.

Dance Dance Fiasco

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 17 / 23
Date: October 14, 2004
Author: Amazon User

After a solid outing with DDRMAX 2, Konami returns to its habit of screwing up North American DDR releases with the wildly misguided "Dance Dance Revolution Extreme".

Even the name is a fiasco - it borrows from the latest (last?) incarnation of the arcade game, but arcade gamers looking for their favorite Extreme songs will be badly disappointed. The defining songs of the arcade Extreme - "Graduation", "Cartoon Heroes", "Irresistblement", etc. - are completely absent. Only a few also-rans like "Moba Moga" and "Pink Rose" made it across the Pacific for this installment.

What's worse is a redesigned interface that tries to combine three functions of the MAX/MAX2 interface - game type selection (nonstop, edit data, etc.), song selection, and difficulty - into a single screen. I guarantee you will see this screen and have no idea what to do. Maybe it makes changing difficulty from one song to the next a little easier, something that was obscure but possible in MAX/MAX2, but that hardly seems worth the price of making the whole interface into an utter train wreck.

Workout mode is also a disaster, as it's no longer a separate mode. Instead, you essentially turn on a calorie meter, go play arcade mode for a while, and come back to the workout menu to check the results and turn off the calorie meter. They had it right for one game - DDRMAX 2 - and went right back and messed it up.

The song list for Extreme-US is varied, but it's hard to get past the fact that a lot of these songs are just plain bad. Five are insipid covers borrowed from "Karaoke Revolution", and the choice of licensed songs is a mix. "YMCA" should be fun yet curiuosly isn't, and the idea of dredging up Pet Shop Boys and their body-suited flying surfers only makes you wonder "did we ever really like this stuff?" To think that the previous game had Kylie Minogue and The Crystal Method... sigh. A few points are due for bringing back some DDR oldies that hadn't previously made it to North America, like "Wonderland" and "Only You", though we're still waiting for the true classics (paging "Butterfly" and "Dam Dariram"...)

Some new mini-games are a nice addition - they'll only hold your attention for a few minutes each, since they're foot-stomping novelties and not dancing per se, but Konami at least deserves a point for trying something new.

Truthfully, this game should have been called "DDR Festival", the name given to an imminent Japanese release with the same interface and largely the same song list. The Japanese DDR gamers have already had their "Extreme" - packing a whopping 100+ songs and generally resembling its arcade version (true DDR players have probably already imported this from Japan, or emulated it with the open-source "StepMania" game for computers) - and it's hard to imagine they'll be terribly impressed with this installment.

c'mon ppl this game isnt all that

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 7
Date: June 17, 2006
Author: Amazon User

first off i would like to say that this game is fun up to a certain point, and also the levels arent all that challenging which doesnt live up to the games name "Extreme" and for starters the only thing special about this game is they added a graph of how much calories you have burned "wow". i dont play this anymore because i brought ddr max2 which is off tha chain!! i play that all the time and this one is on the shelf collecting dust

if your a fan

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 09, 2008
Author: Amazon User

i guess if your a fan this is all good, but although i enjoy the game for a little indoor cardio and enjoy techno style music at times this grew old fast, the party mode only has two games and the workout mode does not impress at all, plus the repeated game over after 3 songs crap like i am playing in the arcade just makes me have to listen to the annoying announcer more often than is neccisary, but hey its ddr , its a bit of fun and good for a laugh at your friends if they will even jump up and try, all in all another ddr and not much else just wish it had something more evolved into it.

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