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Wow! Great game for teens - and their parents!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 05, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is really a fun game - great exercise and fun. It's actually something parents can do with their teens (particularly since us old people can play on light while they play on heavy and we both have fun). Use this for family time and everyone will have fun without having to actually talk about your feelings.

You really need decent pads though like Red Octane or a metal pad (although you have to wear shoes then). We broke quite a few cheaper pads.

Gotta get it!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: January 10, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is awesome. My whole family loves it and it is a great form of excercise for all ages. Even though there are not too many well known songs it doesn't hinder the fun of it at all. All the songs are up-beat and my kids want to play it daily - which is better than just watching t.v. all day, right? You gotta get this game!

The graphics get really annoying.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: January 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I'm probably older than the average player but I thought this would be fun. Turns out the graphics and sound effects get very annoying and distracting. The music is good but all those extra noises are annoying. The graphics are also terrible by Xbox standards. Overall we just played it a few times and now it hardly gets played at all.

Fantastic family fun!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: January 02, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game for Christmas for my daughters and haven't stopped playing it since! We are all new to DDR, so we found even the beginning and "light" songs to be plenty challenging. There is a fun mix of songs that is bound to appeal to a wide range of audiences. I especially find the 80's pop music lots of fun to dance to, but the techno and Japanese songs are fun too. This is a great way to encourage family togetherness, and it gives you a great way to work out too. I use work out mode to keep track of calories burnt. I don't know how accurate it is, but I do know I have been able to keep off the holiday pounds from dancing away the hours on DDR. Can't wait to get some of the other Ultramix titles.

P.S. You might want to invest in a good pad, not the kind that comes with the bundle. A good pad will cost more, but is more accurate and will last longer.

Don't Even Bother

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 9
Date: November 07, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game could be decent, but the designers dumb everything down. From the cheesy bubble graphics that compose all of the backgrounds to the quest mode option, this whole game reeks of a sellout for the corny childrens appeal. Whereas Ultramix 1 featured a clear, concise menu system and an organized song selection process, Ultramix 3 has a select bar so huge that only the song or option being selected at the time can be seen. This makes it extremely difficult to find any of the songs or alter any of the options.

A second aspect of this game that makes it inferior to Ultramix 1 is the song content. While Ultramix 1 featured techno dancing songs all the way through, Ultramix 3 goes for the crowd appeal by including old, semi-popular songs that are horrible for higher level players. Any young children or middle aged people that enjoy listening to the songs over the dancing may enjoy this, but for an experienced player the content proves surprisingly dull.

Yet another aspect of the game that could deal with fixing is the timing system on the steps. Maybe it's just the pad but the arrows seem to be a lot more time-precise on Ultramix 3 than in Ultramix 1.

The one redeeming factor in this game is the addition of Sakura and Bag, but this is hardly enough to justify creating an entirely new game and selling it.

If at all possible, I recommend skipping this version entirely and buying Ultramix 1 with the song packs off of X-box live.

Fun Family Game.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: August 22, 2006
Author: Amazon User

It's very good exercise for those who want to lose weight. I lost 5 pounds within a few days and I'm a 320 pound guy. It's really alot of fun and you people who haven't played, should try it or buy. It's well worth your money.

DDR Ultramix 3

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: July 10, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The game is fun and pretty much what I expected based on the reviews I read of it. The one thing I liked that I did not expect based on reviews is that it does contain American based songs and not just Disco/Club type music. My one disappointment is that I expected some sort of noise or something when I stepped on a step to let me know I stepped on it. However the game does not support this that I can tell. This may be no shock to previous DDR owners but since this was my first getting used to the game is a little tough.

Also, it is a little tricky figuring out how to play and hook up the Controllers/Dance Pad and the manual poorly describes how to do it. Again, previous DDR owners may laugh but this caused us some time trying to figure it out. I have several XBox games and have never had trouble but the dance pad made it a little tricky.

Overall, the game is what it is and if you like the others then you should like this game.

Missing a lot of songs

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: July 06, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game after being so used to the less Americanized DDR Extreme for the PS2. Being an Xbox owner, I figured this would be the best way to go. I play on Standard or Heavy in general, and this was a definate change from the more origional versions. The songs lack the two types of songs that I enjoyed the most on DDR Extreme: Japanese Pop and the insnanely fast songs like Paranioa Eternal, Maximiser, and A.

However, I was fortunately able to find some of my favorite songs from the arcade on DDR U3, like the Legend of MAX (which you dont get right off, I wasn't able to unlock it for monthes), Sakura (one you get straight out of the box), bag (one of my favorites to play on Standard), and Daikenkai (not sure if I spelled that right). And some of these new songs I found quite nice.

But in general, most of the songs are, to be honest, total trash. On average, I can play about 10 to 20 minutes before running out of good songs. I mean come on...Good Charlote just dosn't belong on a DDR game. This one has been too Americanized.

Predecessors are superior

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 9 / 12
Date: February 26, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Too Americanized. DDR 1 on xbox was very much in the Japanese style and desirable as such. 2 moved toward American style and 3 even more so. DDR originated in Japan and shouldn't try to be American. I played DDR 3 for a while, but I've since put both it and DDR2 on backburner as I play 1 almost exclusively now. Heavy songs are not very hard on this version of DDR, thus they had to throw in an extra difficulty level of Oni. That brings the total number of levels up to 5--I believe there were originally 3: light, standard and heavy. 5 difficulties makes things cluttered I think, it's too much. 3 was good.

Music is also less catchy. Jpop tunes are mostly absent. You know something is fishy in DDR when Good Charlotte and the B52s start popping up. Check the song list before you decide to purchase. In retrospect I can't decide if I regret getting this or not. I'm a big fan of DDR so I probably would have bought it regardless of whatever--and that is in fact what I did so there you have it. Just be careful if you're not a big fan, as I do truly think the former versions were better. Although it may depend on what your opinion is of Japanese style versus American style in video games. Or just in general.

Dance Dance Revolution Ultramix 3

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 11
Date: February 23, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I bought a Dance Dance Revolution Ultramix 2 before and like it very much. Therefore, I decided to buy another one. This game turned out to be a huge disappointment. The music in this game must have come from two and/or three decades ago. If you want to dance on the latest music, this is not the one to buy.

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