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Dance Factory

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 30, 2008
Author: Amazon User

It's a nice game like the original DDRs, but the ability to dance to my own music makes it a little sweeter. Sometimes the computer gets a little off the beat - I might be able to work out a more effective algorithm if I had tons of time, but I don't, so I like this one pretty well. Also, navigation is a little awkward at times. Overall, three stars for originality - and leave two open for when they work the bugs out.

Best Dance Game

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

I love this game because it helps me stay in shape. It is fun to dance to any song that you want to. It is a great way to lose weight while having fun! Everyone who likes DDR should get this game!

Not a good game for DDR players

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 03, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game SOUNDS fantanstic, and thats why i bought it. I always thought it would be awesome to turn any song of my choosing into a DDR song, and was very excited when i found a game that could do that. The biggest issue i had was that the up and down arrows are switched. Honestly i didn't even realize it until I played one round on a fairly easy level, failed, and couldn't understand why. If you've ever played standard, heavy, or expert on a real DDR game you find that your brain gets to know where arrows are and it takes less concentration to do the dance steps over time. When you're so used to playing the game one way, and the arrows get switched, it throws you for a loop. It was extremely difficult and frustrating for me to adjust to the flipped arrows, and I still can't play nearly as well on Dance Factory as DDR. It also frustrated me that there was no way of changing this, either by moving the arrows or reassigning the buttons on the dance pad. This game is great for someone who is young or hasn't played DDR before because they can learn with the arrows set in Dance Factory fashion, but it's terrible and frustrating for anyone who is even remotly good at DDR.

Dancing is fun, Factories are work

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 26, 2008
Author: Amazon User

The reviews I read were mixed: fun to dance to your own music, yet the steps were too basic. I figured since you can program your own steps that second part would be easy enough to remedy.

I get the disc and there are a handful of songs, only one good in my opinion. After checking the book I figure out how to navigate using my own music and waited patiently for the songs to be ripped. Yes, the steps were not the ones I would have chosen for the most beat-astic dances but it was still good. Until I found my problem.

I purchased an entire memory card dedicated to only this game. I was under the impression the songs could be saved to the MC. Nope! For each song you have to put the appropriate CD in every single time... So your best option is to make a mixed CD- noting that game warns might not function well and recommends only original artist albums.

You cannot access a dance list- even the songs that come with the game. It's either the short list of those few songs or whatever CD album is in the console at the time. No scrolling through your options, unless one CD has all of your favorite dance tunes.

Honestly I haven't the time to go through all of my CDs to decide on an ideal dance mix. I figured I'd be able to add the songs I liked as I played the game. This is very frustrating as I want to play DDR to my music, not shuffle around discs and waiting for the same songs to rip and load each and every time. (Even Disc Jockeys don't have to do that much work anymore.)

Great concept, but disappointed in the poor execution.

dance factory is a hit

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 15, 2008
Author: Amazon User

We purchased this game so our young adult kids could do DDR with their own music. Although they love DDR at arcades, they are conservative adults and do not want to listen to smutty music when they don't have to. We have seen a lot of mixed reviews for this game but don't believe the bad ones. Occaisionally, the patterns the computer makes will not match the music where most people would place it but it is always matched to some part of the music, whether the up beat or down beat, or some other obvious pattern. It is easy to get used to as you get to know how the program likes to work. We bought DDR 4.0 dance pads from Hartsunlimited(another great company) and are having a fabulous time with this game. Buy it and have fun your own way :0)

Song Creation is Off Beat

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: March 06, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Dance Factory lets you play a dance game style game with any music CD you own. This would be great if it worked - but more often than not it is off just enough to drive you completely insane.

The game does come with five built in songs, and these are good to get you practicing on "well done" songs. They are I Like It, I Love It; I Like the Way; Pon de Replay; Don't Cha; Get Down On It. So far so good - these are fun to dance to, although DDR fans will find the up and down are REVERSED which will probably really bug you. People who have never played DDR probably won't care - but then it will really bug you when you then try to play DDR games :)

The real problem comes when you put in your own CDs. I had brought a pile of CDs over to the machine. I was actually lucky - I've given away most of my CDs at this point because everything is in iTunes. I've only kept my favorite CDs around - maybe 50 - for backup reasons. Luckily these have some of my favorite dance songs on them.

So I began popping them in. These songs had solid beats in them. You would think the game could easily pick out those beats. But NO! It was pretty close but most of the time it was off just enough to bug you completely. Sometimes it would get the half beat. Sometimes it was just off the main beat.

It got to the point that I would dance along to the music and accept the "poor" ratings just to have fun. It was more frustrating than anything else to dance off beat to try to hit the arrows.

Also there'd be a nice strong obvious part of the song that had no steps at all - and then a bridge or something with hardly any playing that would have a lot of steps. It just made no sense.

I realize completely that you can get bored of songs in DDR games. I was really looking forward to this game for that reason. However, they just don't have the technology down. Maybe in another release or two they'll figure this out and the game will become a must-have. I'm afraid the game really is just not up to that level yet.

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!!!!

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.

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.

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.)

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