Dance Central (DC) is an awesome game. After playing this game, a couch potato can be transformed into an amateur dancer in matter of days. Learning dance routine using Dance Central is a lot simpler for noobs like me who struggle with mass dance and Singapore workout. Just like any of the other Harmonix’s games, Dance Central offers downloadable new songs which you can get from Xbox Live. However, most of the songs available aren’t what I usually listen to.
Given the rise of K-Pop, I hope Harmonix can consider getting K-Pop songs into Dance Central. Most of the K-Pop songs have dance routines that are suitable for Dance central. Imagine if songs such as ‘Sorry Sorry’, ‘Gee’ and other hot Korean pop songs are available for DC, wow…I would definitely by throwing my money to get those songs.
I just can’t stop myself from embedding some SNSD’s dance routine!
GEE
Genie
Hoot
And while I am at the topic of K-pop, what about having REAL Korean stars teaching you how to dance? Download Girl Generation virtual dancer for DC! Wow, that will be even more cool. Ok maybe they can have a new Dance Central K-Pop Remix game. I will be the first to buy this title.
Maybe Harmonix can also consider user-generated-content. User can choreograph their own dance routine and upload to the internet for all to download. This feature would be cool too!
Little Big Planet 2 (LBP 2) demo was available for download at Playstation Store about a month or two ago. Trust that some of you might have already downloaded it and tried out the much anticipated title. The demo features three playable levels which demonstrated the various tools that are unique to LBP 2.
In the beginning of the first level, you might not feel that you are playing LBP2 but LBP 1 since the level outlook, physic and controls are almost the same as its predecessor. However, you soon get to try your hands on the new Grappling Hook which allows you to swing around. For those who played Worms 2 before, it is the same as the ninja rope in that game. Nothing amazing in my opinion.
For the second level in the demo, you are introduced to several of these robots that you can control. The first robot you get to ride on is a rabbit. Controlling the robo-rabbit does pose some challenge and you might lose control of it as times. Will be fun if you are playing with your friends and family seeing how they lose control of their robo-rabbit and get electrocuted when they touches those electrified pads.
After jumping your way around the first part of this level, you are presented with another robot. This time it is a dog that can emit ultrasonic wave. The waves emitted by the dog can push away movable platform making path for you to cross.
Finally, the last creature that you can ride on is a furry hamster that in my opinion looks kind of mutated. The ‘robo-hamster’ can charge in the direction it is facing much like Sonic. This part of the level is also designed to be a bit ‘Sonic-like’. Ok so much for my reminiscence. It can be inferred in some of the trailers I have seen that you might be able to create your own robot to ride on.
After playing through level two, you should have a basic idea of how sackboy can now ride on different kinds of robots. Until this point, I feel that LBP2 still lacks of something innovative, something that can really deliver the punch to make our money worth while buying this sequel. Basically, I feel that the first two level can be easily done with a patch to LBP 1.
In the last level, Media Molecule (the company who made LBP) included a multiplayer head-on level. Unlike traditional platform level, players are now thrown into a small area where the sackboys are equipped with a rocket launcher on their head. The objective of the game is to shoot each other and gain points. I think the developers have learnt the importance of multiplayer from LBP1 and are trying to provide a new competitive ways that players can compete with each other in LBP2.
This is kind of new compared to LBP1 but honestly, I think that players would want more than shooting rockets at each other. The demo ends with this playable level. However, if you have been following news on LBP2, you would know that there is more that this title can offer compared to the demo. In some of the videos I have seen, you can play shooter, racing and even real-time strategy games on LBP2. And it supports PS Move as well! You can also compose your own musical track this time!
LBP2 is coming to you this month! Look out for it!
I’ve recently managed to get my hands on the PlayStation Move and decided to write a review on it.
I’ve bought the bundle with Sports Champions and subsequently bought the other Move games as well. Comparing with the Wii, PlayStation Move has definitely much better graphics, basically a Wii HD. The accuracy of the Move controller is much better compared to that of Wii. As far I am concerned, you do need two Move controllers to completely enjoy the experience while playing Sports Champions. Although you don’t really need the navigator controller until the really good games come out next year.
Sports Champions
For Sports Champions, you get a couple of mini games such as table tennis and gladiator dueling. For the table tennis and archery mini games, the Move controllers work extremely well and you actually feel like you are doing exactly what is on the screen. As for the the other games like beach volleyball and gladiator dueling, it didn’t feel like you are doing the motions as you don’t move with your body besides your hands. During the gladiator dueling , the move controller also doesn’t capture your motions correctly. Start the Party! Start the Party is just like the Wii’s Mario Party, a party game. Playing by yourself is extremely boring although there could be some games that make you giggle or two. Playing your with your friends, however, is a totally different experience. You are given some tasks to do within a time limit and you are rack up as much points as you can. As I’ve said, playing with your friends is extremely fun and you would be constantly be laughing at your friends failing the tasks or failing to beat your score. Although it is fun playing with your friends though, there is very little games to play with and if you are playing with a group of four to five, the fun only lasts for a moment. To truly stretch the playability you would probably have to play with your whole gang of friend in a chalet. Time Crisis Razing Storm If you frequent the arcades alot you probably recognize the name Time Crisis and Razing Storm. The game disc includes those 2 games and an extra called DeadStorm Pirates, making it 3 games in 1 disc. To fully enjoy the game you do need to gun attachment for the move OR if you have a guncon, you could use that.All 3 games are basically what you would expect from the arcade, the experience is however dampened by the fact that you could revive each time you die without putting in money like in arcade which kind of ruins the challenge. Apart from that the games are pretty decent but i personally think that DeadStorm Pirates should had been the main game as it was way better than the other 2. The gun attachment for the move works perfectly and functions exactly like the same guns in the arcade and shooting people is ok as well as detection of where you point the move controller is working. Overall its better to play with friends but do note the short campaign, you could easily finish the game in a day. The Fight: Lights Out This video game blew my mind away albeit in the wrong way. This fighting game is extremely mediocre and for the first time, the move controllers did not function the way I wanted it to function. You are taught by the guy from Machete, Danny Trejo, on how to fight, which is probably the cool thing about the game, but everytime you try to execute the moves he told you to do, it doesn’t work! Moving is clunky as well and hit detection is awful. It will let you lose weight for those who want to lose weight but I would advise you just go outside to exercise.
All in all,the games may be fun for a short time but after a while. you would probably just trade them away. If you want to buy the Move, I suggest you buy it in the middle of next year where many of the most anticipated games and new hardware for the move will come out. Below is one of the games that will use the move plus a picture showing the new gun attachment.
