It's the return of...
DDR! Yeah well I went down to a plus account and LJ didn't flag my DDR icon as an active one so you get the bike icon. Anyway! I just did 30 or maybe 40 minutes of the PS3 version of DDR. I kept it to a lower level but it was still a serious workout.
Here's the PS3 DDR review you didn't know you wanted
- fan reaction has been bad and sales low
- only a tiny amount of downloadable content has been released (1 batch) that's it
- the combo pack was marked down from $70 to $40
- IT TANKED IF YOU DECIDE YOU WANT IT AFTER READING THIS GO BUY IT IMMEDIATELY
==Game==
It's not terribly different. There's a free play mode where you pick songs to do, no sets. Just pick song after song. There's a club mode where you play sets of several songs randomly selected. Based on your performance the game may up the difficulty mid-track or turn on boost arrows or something. It was more fun than I expected. There's a simplistic calorie counter and a practice mode. It feels gutted to me compared to DDR X.
==Graphics==
Graphically, for an HD game it's simpler. It's high-rez screensaver graphics. No background videos, no dancers. (I know right? Dumb.) It's got eye-toy or move or whatever it is they call it today support. I don't have those gadgets so I can't comment on them but given the choice of seeing myself on screen or a hip club dancer anime guy, I'd pick the character.
==Music==
The song selection is ridiculously small. I think they expected to cash cow a huge download shop. Problem! There's almost no download stuff! The game came out in November and 5 packs of crap were released around December and that's it. The songs that are in it are good. There's some solid 80s like Love Shack and Rio, some modern songs like Bad Romance and Need You Now, a few clubby/konami songs I don't recognize but were good to work out to
==The Mat==
The mat it came with was better than I expected. I heard it was smaller. This is untrue. I laid it atop my Ignition pad and it hung over the edge slightly. So it's a full-size home mat. Really good grip on the bottom, the top is a slick vinyl. They say wear no socks to play on it but I found the surface bonding to my feet so I completely ignored that. Also since it's a cheap flat pad I seriously just laid it atop my ignition pad and danced on the 5/8" foamcore and vinyl case of the other pad and it worked pretty well. At my weight though I suspect that on 5/18 I will be cursing the mat is dead.
I'll try my slightly-flaky Ignition 2 and my still-good Ignition 4 pads on it with the controller adapter and see if the PS3 can use them now.
Overall I'll say $40 is worth it for me to get even a few new songs and get back into the DDR swing. As a play experience this edition is a total fuckup and someone at Konami should be whipped for making such a crappy version of this game. With blu-ray disc media, DLC, and HD graphics this should have been an amazing game. Instead it's a clearance workout tape.
Here's the PS3 DDR review you didn't know you wanted
- fan reaction has been bad and sales low
- only a tiny amount of downloadable content has been released (1 batch) that's it
- the combo pack was marked down from $70 to $40
- IT TANKED IF YOU DECIDE YOU WANT IT AFTER READING THIS GO BUY IT IMMEDIATELY
==Game==
It's not terribly different. There's a free play mode where you pick songs to do, no sets. Just pick song after song. There's a club mode where you play sets of several songs randomly selected. Based on your performance the game may up the difficulty mid-track or turn on boost arrows or something. It was more fun than I expected. There's a simplistic calorie counter and a practice mode. It feels gutted to me compared to DDR X.
==Graphics==
Graphically, for an HD game it's simpler. It's high-rez screensaver graphics. No background videos, no dancers. (I know right? Dumb.) It's got eye-toy or move or whatever it is they call it today support. I don't have those gadgets so I can't comment on them but given the choice of seeing myself on screen or a hip club dancer anime guy, I'd pick the character.
==Music==
The song selection is ridiculously small. I think they expected to cash cow a huge download shop. Problem! There's almost no download stuff! The game came out in November and 5 packs of crap were released around December and that's it. The songs that are in it are good. There's some solid 80s like Love Shack and Rio, some modern songs like Bad Romance and Need You Now, a few clubby/konami songs I don't recognize but were good to work out to
==The Mat==
The mat it came with was better than I expected. I heard it was smaller. This is untrue. I laid it atop my Ignition pad and it hung over the edge slightly. So it's a full-size home mat. Really good grip on the bottom, the top is a slick vinyl. They say wear no socks to play on it but I found the surface bonding to my feet so I completely ignored that. Also since it's a cheap flat pad I seriously just laid it atop my ignition pad and danced on the 5/8" foamcore and vinyl case of the other pad and it worked pretty well. At my weight though I suspect that on 5/18 I will be cursing the mat is dead.
I'll try my slightly-flaky Ignition 2 and my still-good Ignition 4 pads on it with the controller adapter and see if the PS3 can use them now.
Overall I'll say $40 is worth it for me to get even a few new songs and get back into the DDR swing. As a play experience this edition is a total fuckup and someone at Konami should be whipped for making such a crappy version of this game. With blu-ray disc media, DLC, and HD graphics this should have been an amazing game. Instead it's a clearance workout tape.