It's a bit like watching Top of the Pops with sign language. The dancer you're supposed to copy appears in miniature on the right hand side of the screen. In SingStar Dance, all the songs are performed by the original artists and accompanied by the proper videos. The dancers are great, their routines are excellent and their silly wigs and outfits are good fun. In the Just Dance games, as fans will know, there are no music videos - just stylised footage of dancers performing the moves you have to copy. Personal favourites include Sir Mix A Lot's Baby Got Back, for obvious reasons, and Day 'N' Nite, for the reason the video was filmed in the Budgens down Lordship Lane and the bloke behind the counter says Kid Kudi is a nice man. There's a decent mix of classic floor-fillers (U Can't Touch This, I Like To Move It), contemporary hits (Poker Face, Hey Ya!) and golden oldies (I Want You Back, Celebration). Luckily there are enough great songs on the disc to keep you going until Sony releases the first update. At the time of writing, this wasn't worth the effort - there aren't any extra SingStar Dance tunes available.

And you can visit the SingStore to download extra tracks. You can battle it out online with people from your Friends list. Just as with regular SingStar you can play alone or with friends, competitively or co-operatively. There she is again on the title screen, gob open, mic aloft, daring the world's filthy-minded Photoshoppers to do their worst. There's a glossy intro movie starring a trendy man in a checked shirt (for the love of God, men, don't any of you own any other clothes?) and a hot lady who looks like a Latina Louise Redknapp. But is there room for one more, or is SingStar Dance a step too far?įrom the moment you boot up the game it's obvious this is a much slicker, more self-conscious offering than Ubisoft's effort Just Dance. Dancing titles like smash hit Just Dance and Kinect-enabled Dance Central are making sure it's stayin' alive. The world may have had enough of games involving plastic guitars and rubber drum kits, but that doesn't mean the music genre is dead.

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