Just Dance 4 – Xbox 360
2Just Dance 4 – Xbox 360
- Top Of The Charts – Just Dance 4 has over 40 all-new songs, ranging from current Billboard hits, legendary favorites, and classic dance party tracks!
- Just Dance-Off! – Challenge your friends in 6 rounds of dance battles with the all-new battle mode!
- Bring Your Crew – Each player can get his own moment of fame with unique choreographies and moves for each member of your dance crew.
- Just Sweat It Out – The popular Just Sweat mode gets a major upgrade with brand new workout sessions, personalized programs, live feedbacks and a real calorie counter.
Kinect Just Dance 4
List Price: $ 39.99
Price: $ 10.49
R. Cooper
Great for Exercise,
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Jackie Jones
It just takes some getting used to.,
Everyone is of course talking about the different interface that this game uses, so I thought I should address that. First of all, they have done away with the option to use the controller, so you have to use the Kinect. That’s a little annoying for me, because now I have to select the song for my three-year-old, since she can’t possibly figure out how to point to everything. So here’s how this new interface works: instead of going up and down with your hand and swiping across your body to select the song, you now have to “point” to the song you want. You keep your hand close to your body in order to hover the game’s hand over a song, and then you point your finger (by extending your arm towards the screen) to select it. One point will preview a song, and then you point again to pick it. It takes a little getting used to, but I just got this thing and am already getting the hang of it after 25 minutes of play. One thing I LOVE about the new interface is that you have to raise your hand in order to be in control of the Kinect. As long as no one else raises their hand, you will stay in control. It is endlessly annoying when my two-year-old jumps in front of me while I’m trying to control things on other games, so I really appreciate this aspect of this game.
Someone said it really bothered them that the game asks if you want to share your pictures after every song. It does indeed do this, and it’s a little stupid, but it takes me about 5 seconds to get past it, so I think I can deal with that.
Now for the actual game: I love it! The songs are fresh and new, and they’re totally fun to dance to. I love Good Feeling because it seems to have some true hip-hop moves, and I feel like a bit of a bad a** when I dance to it. The first one my daughter and I danced to was Love You Like a Love Song, and it was awesome to look at. The graphics are very vibrant and pretty, and they seem to be much clearer than the last game’s. Also, in Just Dance 3, I seem to get screwed in the gameplay a lot. For instance, I know I just did a move perfectly, but it’ll only give me a “Good.” (I swear I know when I hit a move or not.) It seemed to be stingy with its “Perfects.” Just Dance 4 has gotten better with this aspect. I feel like I’m being judged fairly, and that makes me REALLY happy. I should mention that raising your hand in the screen before the song starts does not change difficulty levels. I’m not sure if you can change that sort of thing in the options or something, but you can’t do it there.
I haven’t been playing this long enough to comment on all the extra features of this game, but there do seem to be a lot more than in Just Dance 3. There are several challenges for each song, so that’ll keep us busy for a while. I’m really happy I bought this, and it’ll provide hours of fun for me and my daughter especially (my son’s a little disappointed that there isn’t a robot song in this game). I recommend it, if you feel confident in your Kinect abilities.
UPDATE – 11-17-12
If you look at the comments on this review, you’ll see that Ubisoft has now made this game compatible with the controller. It works great, and now my daughter can pick the songs herself, which is awesome. Thanks, Ubisoft!
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