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Great idea, but they didn't deliver

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: September 18, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I started playing the DDR Extreme series last year, and over time dancing to the same songs over and over again has gotten old. When I saw that Dance Machine would generate steps to go with any music, I was very excited and waited for a few months for it to come out.

This morning, I bought it. What it does is spend about 10 minutes analyzing the disc and generating dance steps, then you can dance to the music on the CD. Unfortunately the steps seem to have nothing to do with the music, not even with the beat. For one or two songs, it almost worked. For most songs, the "normal" difficulty level produces one step every 2-3 seconds (very slow), and frequently the step comes just before the beat, so that I have to dance like a klutzy spazz to score in the game.

In the DDR series, the choreographed steps have a flow to them, forcing you to plan your moves and rewarding you when you do. The Dance Factory steps don't flow at all, it's just "step over here" then "step over here".

Initially I was really disappointed that Dance Factory doesn't have a "double" mode that allows a single player to dance using two dance pads at once. After seeing the results of generating steps for a single pad, I realize that a double-pad mode would be a complete disaster if they had tried it. So I won't complain that they don't generate steps for a pair of dance pads, just that they couldn't even do it with one.

Off to sell it to the used game store...

Great concept, but needs more fine tuning

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: October 17, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Like most here I was thrilled to see this game being made. Play your own music cd's - Dam, that's what the Komani games have been missing. But like most here reality settled in mighty quickly too.

If you have a song that doesnt follow a traditional 4 beat process, be prepared to have steps that are no where in tune with your song. As someone stated, there are some songs you are going to learn to have to do without.

But having said that, it does pick up 4 beat songs very good. For example Cassie's "long way to go" plays back beautifully on it, so does Janet Jackson "So excited". I've used CDR's and they have all played back fine.
But if you go beyond a basic 4 beat, like having a guitar riff, you can be in for a fustrating time. And yes the game isn't as challenging as the traditonal DDR games but for the opportunity to dance to want you want, it can be overlooked.

FootNote: If you have Dance Factory from CodeMasters as your game I STRONGLY recommend you do not buy the energy wireless pads and aspect good results? Why?

When you go through the screen sections the pads act normal, but when you go to actually dance, you get the flip side of this. None of the arrow keys register. Not one.. Only, the outside corner pads register. Now this would not be so fustrating until you realise that even if you try to change the pads layout on the controller via the game it still registers those buttons by its only configuration. Lucky I stil have my wired pads but its a shame I have to keep them around just for this one problem.

So due to that I had to give these a "3" star. I would give it a 4, but that would be even a high 3 but a low four, even for playing your own songs.

Hopefully codemasters will take a look at these issues for their next gen of thier product and figure out where they went wrong.

So FUNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 26, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game is so fun! I love it so mucuh. Since I have gotten it on Christmas, I play every day for hours! I love it so much!

It's great....

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 01, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Hi...I am a 4th grade boy who really loves DDR. (I own DDR Extreme 2 and Max 2). We found this in the discount basket at a toy store so thought we would give it a try since the price was right. It does have its quirks - it is time consuming to set up and doesn't have the features of the other games. But, it is fun to be able to choose your own music. The songs on the other games get boring. I'd probably be disappointed if I had spent 40 bucks on it, but for 10.98, it was a good buy.

Goo Goo Revisited

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 6
Date: September 27, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Playstation had a game like this called Goo Goo Soundy and it did the same thing Dance Factory does. That game never worked right and neither does Dance Factory, but you'd think it would on the PS2....oh well.

Dance Dance Revolution is the way to go it seems!

ok

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: June 27, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game was ok but it was no where near as good as ddr. I liked the fact I could dance to my own music but the dances are not fun you have ti make them for it to be fun and it can be hard to make them.

Great for ladies night

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 16, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I brought this out for ladies night and we danced non stop for hours and had a great time. I made a cd mix from Itunes and used that cd. It was great using music that everyone could enjoy.

Fun Game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 23, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is a lot of fun if you have CDs that you want to make into songs. The only thing that bothers me is that everytime you load the game up it says you have no saved file so you can't keep the backgrounds and monsters that you purchase.

Great game for kids and parents

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 25, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is really fun. I give it 4 stars just for the fact that I can load my (or daughters) own cds/cd-rs and dance to those songs. Very nice!

I did notice that some of the dance steps seemed a bit "off" for some of the non-dance music we played, though. Luckily, I love all sorts of kinds of dance music (trance, house, old disco, techno, etc.) and we got great on-beat moves for those songs. So, I think I got a handle on what songs to try next. Faster songs usually come out better.

Also, the arrows are kind of far apart and harder to see together on our huge tv in single player mode. That took some getting used to.

I recommend this to all the moms and kids out there that are just learning DDR type games and want to try some of their favorite music. It doesn't seem as hard as DDR and over the past couple of days both my daugther and I have caught onto two arrow jump moves (whatever they are called) that both of us just couldn't get with DDR.

I'm happy I bought this game.

MUST HAVE DDR GAME!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 21, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game is the best! I looked at all of the other dance games and this one is by FAR the best I've seen! The price was even better that I bought 2 of them. A must have dance game for the buck!!!!

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