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bleh

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: September 27, 2006
Author: Amazon User

When I first heard about Dance Factory, I was enthralled. "Yay! Now I can play my own songs that sound like good DDR type songs!" I even made CDs full of songs that sounded like they'd be good on DDR. But, after buying this game and letting it create the moves for songs, I found that only about 1 out of every 30 songs had good steps to it. For the other 29 out of 30 songs the timing was terrible on steps, not to mention there was no clear correlation between the steps and the music.
But, I figured I could correct the bad steps making my own dance moves to the songs...nope. There's a limited amount of steps you can place with the dance editor, not to mention it doesn't allow you to start placing steps until about 20 seconds into the song (some songs start way earlier than 20 seconds), and it stops you no matter how many steps you've used when the song is almost over. Dance Factory is not all it's cracked up to be. I myself am very disappointed in it. I would suggest saving your money for a game that works right in everything that it does.

A bit disappointing

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: January 29, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game was fun, but as some of the other reviewers have stated. I found the easy mode too easy and the hard mode too hard. There should probably be another difficulty setting in the middle.

Don't have DDR? Then start dancing!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: October 05, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I get it, I get it. It has some confusing differences for veteran DDR players, and it doesn't work with all dance pads. But what about those of us who have only played DDR a couple of times at other people's houses? What about those of us who are just getting into this whole thing? What about those of us who are dying to do dances to weird songs no one would think of putting in a DDR game? If you fit into any or all of those categories, then direct yourself to the game and dance pad set right now, because you'll love this... perhaps more than DDR. (And if you fit into the last category... "Kiss Kiss" by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs makes a surprisingly good dance routine.)

Doesn't work with wireless dance mats

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: December 27, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I think that I would really enjoy this game-- if I could play it. I was so excited to make my own dance CD (I love DDR to work out to, but the euro beats get whack, fast). I loaded up the game, but when I went to play, the arrows on screen didn't link up to the arrows on the pad, but to the X, O, square and triangle on the outer corners. This is completely bizarre as the proper buttons work when you are in the menu and set up modes. After reading a few other reviews that mention this posted here and on game forums, I wrote the the Codemasters customer service. They claim to know nothing about this as the game works with all the wired mats they tested. So apparently I am out for the purchase, which seems extremely lame since neither the website nor the package indicates a problem with compatability. Boooo.

Some observations from a non DDR fanatic

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: February 06, 2007
Author: Amazon User

although I am not a DDR noobie(I have DDR EXTREME, DDR MAXX, AND FLOW) I am not a fanatical purist. some views from my self and my wife and kids

- usually the faster paced the song ,the the better the moves match.I had excellent results from reggae(bennie man) and especially booty music(luke/too live crew/69 boys)and some R&B (Jay-Z,missy elliot)
- the difficulty is skewed easy too easy / hard impossible. with some songs you have to go up in the difficulty to get it to match( it was out of sync on easy but right for normal.
- in creature multiplayer mode the accesories for the monsters you get can be color coded red,blue, or green. when you go up a rank, a color step pattern comes up. do it correctly and you you cand do things like temporarily stopping the other persons arrows(so they cant score) steal thier points (the points you make go to your opponent) or cut thier points in half. this to me is more like competeing against the other person than most DDR games. Yes it has it's flaws such as the menu system and stopping halfway through certain songs( ithink it has something to do if your cd skips sometimes) and I think this would have worked out better on x-box since you can save your actual music to the hard drive and use the custom soundtrack feature. but if you like dancing to your own music it's worth it. hopefully there will be a dance factory 2
or at the least DDR will get its head out of it's but and implement this in it's DDR Game. Why not make the music regional like they do with the movies. just a thought.

Flawed, but still fun

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: September 15, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The complaints other people have had about this game are all valid. Here they are:
1. It does not work well with all songs. If it has a strong beat it may be ok. I took a bunch of my old mix cds and tried all the songs out. Some that I thought would work well were completely off. Others that I thought wouldn't work at all turned out really good. Let me say again: if there is a strong beat it will work well, but the game sometimes gets confused with what is the main beat.
2. Difficulty: Easy is too easy, Normal is ok, and there is a big jump in difficulty from normal to pro. Personally if there was one between normal and pro I'd use it.
3. Arrows: If you are used to the DDR setup you'll be a bit confused since they switched the position of the up and down.
4. Lame/Distracting background: Totally. But you can turn it off.

Also you can also record your own steps to a song, which kind of negates numbers 1 & 2.
The translation of a song to dance steps could have been better. Dance Factory 2 (If it ever gets made) will be a masterpiece.
This game is good, but just don't expect perfection.

EDIT: After playing some DDR Supernova I realized my main problem with DF. The steps are too simplistic. Oh you can put it on hard and it will be fast, but not complex.

dance factory may not work on all playstation 2 systems

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: December 29, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Dance Factory is sold under the Codemaster company. It is a game made to play on the Sony Playstation2 with dance pads. I bought it for my kids for Christmas this year. We put the disc in and received a Disc Read Error. Think we had just gotten a bad disc we returned it to the store and got a replacement disc. On the second disc we got the same DISC READ ERROR. Ii tried to contact the Codemaster support but there is a message on the number that says they are not accepting ANY phone calls till the 2nd week of January. I next emailed them with the problem. They stated that some systems are unable to read their game and to try to put the Playstation console on its side, this also did not work. When I told them this they said it was a playstation problem and to contact Sony.

I contacted Sony and they also knew about the problem, they told me for $45 they would take my playstation and give me a "refurbished" one, at this time they said my playstation was not broken. After refusing to fix my "NOT BROKEN" playstation they refused to give the authorization to get my money back stating it was a Codemaster problem.

Once again I contacted Codemaster...this is the response.

You have been mis-advised by Sony, as it is them who manufacture the discs and they should know of the possible problems with blue CD-Rom discs. However please use the reference number above when dealing with your retailer. We advise you to request a refund, as none of the discs will work in your PS2.
Please accept our sincere apologies for any inconvenience caused

No, I do not accept your apology Codemaster. Sony, you have lost all of my respect as a reputable company. I will NEVER buy another sony product. Does anyone want a Playstation3???? Playstation2???? 3 Sony computers????? 2 Sony tvs?????????

Not quite there

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: September 19, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I read all the reviews before buying this, but my family loves this game, so decided to see for myself. I don't mind the length of time it takes to process the dances, but two things really ruin it.
1) The up and down arrows are switched from the normal DDR positions on PS2. Even though I never go off of Beginner level, it still threw me. For my Heavy level son, he played about half of one song and re-booted in disgust.
2) I made it through about 3 songs before I called it quits. It would get the beat right about half the time, and then it would pick up something like the guitar riff and just go nuts.

I'll be trading in this game really soon!

A bit of a let down

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: September 20, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I didn't love this game but I didn't hate it ether. It was however far from what I was thinking it would be, while it's a good dance game is far from being anything like DDR. Then again as it wasn't put out by the same people as DDR its not a surprise its nothing like DDR.
While I didn't completely hate the game it was somewhat of a disappointment, game play seems far to easy. When a noob like me to the whole dance game can get an A max (top score) its way to easy. On top of that the dance moves a lot of the times were not in sync to the songs., and seemed to lag. Then at other times it just didn't seem to be the right place for the right move. Or not even enough steps to much dead times in some of the songs I played. However it was cool to play any type of music with this game it still seemed that the more upbeat technosh dance type songs that are normally in these games anyways seemed to flow better. Though over all it seemed just not as much fun as I thought it would be. Then there was the fact there was no way at ALL to get a game over. While I hated to get "Game Over"s on DDR it made me want to work at the song and get better. This lacks any room to really improve on a song as is... And it `s a bit of a hassle to have to go dig back up that Panic at the Disco CD just to play the song that you saved the dance from. It would have been easier to just go at it from the main screen where the starter songs are. Also I found I could NOT use any burned CD's I had made which was a huge let down for me as I have a lot of burned CD's from way back when and would have just loved dancing to the theme to Gundam Wing or any of Two-mix's other songs
On the plus side I see this as a awesome game to get beginners into the whole dancing games idea as it is so easy to play and get use to stepping at the right times and no voice yelling at how bad your doing. Also the whole over all concept of being able to dance to any CD is fun and a good draw. I loved being able to play to some of my CD's like Fule who you would never see on such games. Another thing that I found cool was that each of your CD's held a creature that with points you earned from dancing you could customize how it looked.
Over all this has the makings of a good game. It just needs a lot more work. It was a good start into trying to get the idea of other types of music for these dance games as well, but just lacked delivery it seemed maybe if there's a Dance Factory 2 it might be more up to the challenge of giving the DDR games a run for their money. The talents there but it just needs some more work...

Not to happy

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: September 10, 2006
Author: Amazon User

My main grip about this game is that the steps DO NOT match with the music at all. I was SO exsited when this came out rushed out and bought it the day it came out and loaded up some black eyed peas and DJ Jeonki and was ready to find I had a hard time seeing the arrows as they scrolled. The back ground is so bright and the arrows blended in to much that i had a hard time seeing them. I also am not empressed with the "creature" mode. The system generates a creature to dance with you... all the stupid monkey did was flail it's arms at me. DDRs dancer are like doing neat stuff in the background and on songs that I had memeorized i found myself watching the dancers and hitting the steps right because I knew which way to move my feet I didn't need to fully watch what I was doing to know I would be getting a good score...

All in all, not thrilled. Should of waited for X-play to review it and read up on it before I waisted my money on it. I may give it another chance some other time but right now, it's DDR all the way.

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