Editorial Reviews:
Synopsis
A new dancing game based on rhythm and music, offering fun and challenges to everyone from beginners to dancing queens and kings, as well as entertainment for people watching them with the original video clips of the songs playing in the background.
Amazon.com Product Description
div class="aplus" p iDance Paradise/i is multiplayer Rhythm-Music game exclusively developed for play on Xbox 360 that utilizes Microsoft Kinect technology. The most advanced Dance game to date designed for use with Kinect, iDance Paradise/i features extensive two player versus play modes. It also contains 40 tracks, each with a corresponding music video viewable as players mimic the dance moves that are queued. Additional features include: a six level Career mode, the ability to pick the tracks you want to dance to in Free mode, Xbox LIVE Avatar integration and more. /p div class="leftImage" style="width: 200px;"img alt="Dance Paradise game logo" title="Dance Paradise game logo" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/videogames/detail-page/B004GWWW5Y.logo.200.jpg" border=0 align=top width="200" height="84" /div h4Now Everybody Can Dance/h4 p Get ready to party with your friends and dance together with no controllers in iDance Paradise/i. iDance Paradise/i utilizes the camera based motion capture technology built into the Microsoft Kinect system (sold separately). Once Kinect is installed, correctly placed in the room and has mapped the tracked points of an individual player's body, your body in effect becomes your controller. No more buttons, no more dance pads, just your body moving to the the groove and as prompted onscreen. iDance Paradise/i is also the most advanced Kinect based dance game. It comes with the most music of any Kinect dance game released to date - 40 original hit songs from the hottest artists, like Lady Gaga, Rihanna, Taio Cruz and more, and original video content that accompanies the music tracks. Finally, iDance Paradise/i is the only Kinect game to give you both the artist videos and true head-to-head multiplayer action to make a real party game, whether you are dancing or just observing. /p div class="rightImage" style="width: 250px;"img alt="Synching two Kinect devices for multiplayer Dance Paradise gameplay" title="Synching two Kinect devices for multiplayer Dance Paradise gameplay" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/videogames/detail-page/B004GWWW5Y.02.sm.jpg" border="0" width="250" height="141" div class="imageCaption"Utilize advanced Microsoft Kinect technology.br/ View larger. /div /div div class="rightImage" style="width: 250px;"img alt="Single player gameplay from Dance Paradise" title="Single player gameplay from Dance Paradise" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/videogames/detail-page/B004GWWW5Y.01.sm.jpg" border="0" width="250" height="141" div class="imageCaption"A training mode in single player to work on the dance moves you will need.br/ View larger. /div /div div class="rightImage" style="width: 250px;"img alt="Free mode track selection from Dance Paradise" title="Free mode track selection from Dance Paradise" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/videogames/detail-page/B004GWWW5Y.04.sm.jpg" border="0" width="250" height="141" div class="imageCaption"Choose your favorite tracks to dance to in single player Free mode.br/ View larger. /div /div div class="rightImage" style="width: 250px;"img alt="Attack mode gameplay from Dance Paradise" title="Attack mode gameplay from Dance Paradise" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/videogames/detail-page/B004GWWW5Y.05.sm.jpg" border="0" width="250" height="141" div class="imageCaption"Utilize power-ups to unleash on an opponent in multiplayer Attack mode.br/ View larger. /div /div div class="rightImage" style="width: 250px;"img alt="Video Box functionality from Dance Paradise" title="Video Box functionality from Dance Paradise" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/videogames/detail-page/B004GWWW5Y.03.sm.jpg" border="0" width="250" height="141" div class="imageCaption"Watch and listen to videos by original artists in Video Box.br/ View larger. /div /div h4Gameplay/h4 p iDance Paradise/i is designed to measure players' ability to perform queued dance moves, but unlike other dance games which deal in simple directional movement, detailed accuracy is key here. This is made possible through the real-time motion capture abilities of Kinect. Gameplay in iDance Paradise/i is based around the game's four color-coded dance lanes. As music tracks and videos run in the background and your Xbox LIVE avatar cheers you on from themed game environments, two-dimensional representations of the dance move you are to mimic slide down the dance lanes towards you in a conveyer belt fashion at the center of the screen. In the few seconds that it takes for these representations to reach the bottom front of the screen they have repeated the move several times. At the end of each lane is a virtual dance pad, which when reached by the two-dimensional figure is your queue to mimic the dance move. A variety of the possible moves slide down all four lanes with players hopping laterally to adjacent dance pads to unleash their versions of them. Moves are rated in real-time and proceed in rhythm with the track. Successful moves fill the player's in-game vitality bar, while unsuccessful attempts subtract from it. Your game ends if the bar is completely drained. /p h4Play Modes/h4 p iDance Paradise/i features multiple game modes in both single player and multiplayer. Single player modes include: Free Play, in which you can queue up the tracks you want and dance away to your heart's content; Training Mode where you can practice the individual moves that you will see in in-game action; and Career Mode - 6 progressive game levels, each of which contain specific challenges that must be met before you can move on to the next. Two player multiplayer modes include: Attack mode, a mode in which after filling their vitality bars players can unleash power-ups that throw off the dance moves of opponents; Versus mode, where players dance off to the same tracks with the winner being the most accurate; and Synchro mode, a cooperative play option where two players must dance in synch to the same track and moves. /p h4Track List/h4 table class="data" tr td style="width:45%" div align="center""In da club" - 50 Cent/div /td td style="width:45%" div valign="middle" align="center""Poker Face" - Lady Gaga/div /td /tr tr td style="width:45%" div align="center""Bellydancer" - Akon/div /td td style="width:45%" div valign="middle" align="center""Bulletproof" - Laroux/div /td /tr tr td valign="center" div align="center""Ladies Night" - Atomic Kitten/div /td td valign="center" div align="center""Lollipop" - Lil Wayne ft. Static/div /td /tr tr td valign="center" div align="center""Love is wicked" - Brick Lace/div /td td valign="center" div align="center""I Will Survive" - Gloria Gaynor/div /td /tr tr td align="center" div align="center""Jerk It Out" - Caesars/div /td td valign="center" div align="center""Can’t Touch This" - MC Hammer/div /td /tr tr td valign="center" div align="center""The Sound of Violence" - Cassius/div /td td valign="center" div align="center""Lollipop" - Mika/div /td /tr tr td align="center" div align="center""Toop Toop" - Cassius/div /td td valign="center" div align="center""We Are Golden" - Mika/div /td /tr tr td align="center" div align="center""Around the World" - Daft Punk/div /td td valign="center" div align="center""Hot in Herre" - Nelly/div /td /tr tr td align="center" div align="center""When Love Takes Over" - David Guetta ft Kelly Rowland/div /td td valign="center" div align="center""Hey Baby" - No Doubt/div /td /tr tr td align="center" div align="center""Drummer Boy" - Debi Nova/div /td td valign="center" div align="center""According to You" - Orianthi/div /td /tr tr td style="width:45%" div align="center""Walking On a Dream" - Empire of the Sun/div /td td style="width:45%" div valign="middle" align="center""Mama Do" - Pixie Lott/div /td /tr tr td valign="center" div align="center""Dance Dance" - Fall Out Boy/div /td td valign="center" div align="center""When I Grow Up" - Pussycat Dolls/div /td /tr tr td valign="center" div align="center""Relax Remix" - Frankie Goes to Hollywood/div /td td valign="center" div align="center""Disturbia" - Rihanna/div /td /tr tr td align="center" div align="center""It's Raining Men" - Geri Halliwell/div /td td valign="center" div align="center""Hey Sexy Lady" - Shaggy/div /td /tr tr td valign="center" div align="center""Hollaback Girl" - Gwen Stefani/div /td td valign="center" div align="center""Beautiful" - Snoop Dogg ft Pharrell/div /td /tr tr td align="center" div align="center""What Are You Waiting For?" - Gwen Stefani/div /td td valign="center" div align="center""Murder on the Dancefloor" - Sophie Ellis Bextor/div /td /tr tr td align="center" div align="center""Say Goodbye to Love" - Kenna/div /td td valign="center" div align="center""Four to the Floor" - Starsailor/div /td /tr tr td align="center" div align="center""Let It Rock" - Kevin Rudolf ft Lil Wayne/div /td td valign="center" div align="center""Alright" - Supergrass/div /td /tr tr td align="center" div align="center""Celebration" - Kool the Gang/div /td td valign="center" div align="center""Break Your Heart" - Taio Cruz/div /td /tr tr td align="center" div align="center""Bad Romance" - Lady Gaga/div /td td valign="center" div align="center""A cause des garçons" - Yelle/div /td /tr /table h4Key Game Features/h4 ul liUtilizes Microsoft Kinect technology/li liOutstanding 40 track playlist with dance, hip-hop, rock and RB music/li liEasy to learn dance moves choreographed by professional dancers/li li3 single player modes ul liTraining - Perfect your moves before you hit the dance floor/li liCareer - 6 levels of challenges/li liFree - Pick your songs you want to dance to/li /ul /li li3 2-player multiplayer modes ul liVersus - The best dancer wins/li liAttack - Head-to-head competition with power-ups/li liSynchro - Dance as a team/li /ul /li liVideo Box Mode - Lets you watch and listen to the music videos/li /ul /div