And here were all the reviewers wondering how the games developers would put all the new motion controllers that videogame consoles come with these days, to good use. If you're lucky enough to have Kinect motion controller sitting next to your Xbox 360, there's no better way to loosen up at a party than to pop Dance Central into your machine, turn the volume up and let the mayhem begin (with some dancers, mayhem wouldn’t be far from the truth). With help from the Kinect, Dance Central has just become the top motion-controlled game on Earth – using the motion sensing possibilities of the Kinect to hysterical effect. The camera in the device reads your motion and the character on screen challenges you to throw off whatever holds you back and to be as wild as them. Not only that, the game invites you to compete with your friends in dance too.
As far as party activities go, there are few games of any kind that can bring a group together as successfully as the trio: Xbox, Kinect, Dance Central. In most cases, since drinking can make it difficult to follow the challenging lead of the on-screen characters, parties can turn into fun alcohol-free affairs sometimes on the strength of this game. One has probably never seen a party look alive in this way without the help of a lot of alcohol. There can practically be no wallflowers at a party this way.
Of course, Dance Central has been around for some time now; the next installment, Dance Central 2, is due out in the fall. It was on show at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles in June earlier this year and the improvements made were obvious. The best one of course is that they've made it multiplayer. It's all about Saturday Night Fever-style dance battles now. The original Dance Central has a dance battles too. But it can never be the same when you have to take turns in front of the Kinect. Dance Central 2 makes it much more immediate and spontaneous – both competitors dance at the same time to the same song. Why, competing dancers can drift in and out of a dance at will. And Kinect just keeps track of everything brilliantly.
Of course, you can expect Dance Central to keep track of how you dance and declare a winner. But if you want a few dance lessons before you dance competitively, the program’s Break it Down mode can actually teach players all the dance moves they'll need to master.
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