SingStar Dance Party Pack

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ASIN: B003O6C5O6
Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 8.4 x 2.8 inches ; 2.2 pounds
Media: Video Game
Release Date: November 9, 2010

By : Sony
List Price : ~~$39.99~~
Price : $38.99
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Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description
SingStar Dance for PlayStation 3 is a unique extension of the SingStar music gaming experience that adds dance gameplay to the familiar karaoke-like performance action that the franchise is famous for. Dance activities utilize Sony's PlayStation Move motion controller and PlayStation Eye camera combination to replicate precisely choreographed routines on-screen, while singing gameplay uses standard USB microphones compatible with the PS3. Additional features include 4-player multiplayer that includes multiple dancers, 50 audio/video tracks, additional downloadable tracks, the ability to upload performances to the SingStar online portal, and more.

Get into the groove with SingStar DanceSingStar Dance is tailor-made for all you dancing machines and pop stars in the making. Utilizing the fun, new PlayStation Move motion controller and PlayStation Eye peripheral combination, along with traditional compatible USB microphones used in previous SingStar games, SingStar Dance adds a whole new performance aspect to the SingStar experience by allowing players to dance as well as sing along to your favorite chart hits all within the same game. The game supports up to four players, with either one or two of these singing via a USB microphones, as the remaining players use PlayStation Move motion controllers to dance along to fully choreographer routines developed for the same song. The game contains over 50 audio/video tracks by original artists. These are all move-enabled, with the progress of singing players tracked on-screen via a familiar tablature notation, while dancing players have their own tablature, as well as a silhouette that mimics the motions picked up by the controller-camera peripheral pairing. Additional functionality includes new dance tracks downloadable via the SingStore and the ability to upload your video performances to My SingStar Online.

PlayStation Move Motion Controller and PlayStation EyeEquipped with a three axis gyroscope, a three axis accelerometer and terrestrial magnetic field sensor, the PlayStation Move motion controller tracks the precise movements and the angle of the controller, while the PlayStation Eye camera, aimed at the player, allows the PS3 system to detect the absolute position of the controller, and thus to a large extent the player, in 3D space. Together this facilitates the highly sensitive movement tracking and intuitive gameplay that gives the impression that the player is actually physically within the game. The PlayStation Move motion controller also features the familiar PlayStation controller button orientation, for seamless play from the very first use.
Key Game Features

Strut your stuff solo or get moving with a partner; up to 4 players can sing and dance with 1 or 2 microphones and PlayStation Move motion controllers
Be a star performer as you hit all the notes and move yourself to the music to outperform the competition
Use the PlayStation Move motion controller to spice up your video playbacks and enhance your dance moves with cool special effects
Download new SingStar Dance tracks from the SingStore
Upload your video performances to My SingStar Online
A mix of great pop tracks included, providing classic SingStar gameplay great for social and family gaming

Additional Screenshots:
PlayStation Move motion controller(s), PlayStation Eye camera and compatible USB mics sold separately and required for play.
Get into the groove with SingStar Dance! For all you dancing machines and pop stars in the making, get ready to show off your best moves with SingStar Dance. Fun, new PlayStation Move motion controller gameplay lets you dance as well as sing along to your favorite chart hits.

SingStar Dance Party Pack

Product Features

Includes: SingStar Dance game, SingStar microphones and SingStar USB converter,
Strut your stuff solo or get moving with a partner up to 4 players can sing and dance with 1 or 2 microphones and PlayStation Move motion controllers.
Be a Star performer! Hit all the notes and move yourself to the music to outperform the competition.
Use the PlayStation Move motion controller to spice up your video playbacks and enhance your dance moves with cool special effects
Download new SingStar Dance tracks from the SingStore

Customer Reviews

Back in 2009, Ubisoft released Just Dance for the Wii. This is the game which changed the face of dance games. Prior to this game, video game dancing pretty much consistent of pattern matching. But now, you could dance actual dance moves and have the system tell you how well you're doing.
A year later, Sony released Move for the Playstation and Microsoft released Kinect for the Xbox 360. Suddenly, motion control was much more accurate and available with high resolution graphics. And not surprisingly, Sony came out with Singstar Dance and Microsoft came out with Dance Central.
I won't comment on the relative merits of Move vs. Kinect--that's something that time and the marketplace will ultimately decide. What I can say is that for those who own a Sony Move, Singstar Dance is a solid title that still carries on the excellent singing and voice evaluation capabilities of the original, while adding new features that use the Sony Move that make it feel like the next-gen version of Just Dance.
Like the original Singstar series, Singstar Dance uses proprietary microphones. They're solid, high quality mikes that plug into a USB hub. The blue and red mikes from the original Singstar series will still work, but ordinary USB microphones will not. The "Party Pack" is pretty reasonably priced at $40, considering that it comes with both microphones.
When you get to the main menu, you have the option of viewing a tutorial on how to dance (basically the same as Just Dance, you hold the Move controller in your right hand and dance the mirror image to the onscreen silhouette). You can also start playing solo or with friends. You can also view your personal "media gallery". More on this later.
Singstar Dance allows up to four players to play together. A maximum of two can sing at a time, and a maximum of two can dance at a time. When you have four players together all going at it the same time, it's a lot of fun. As for those who want to sing and dance at the same time, you're out of luck.
As with the original Singstar, for singers a meter will appear below showing how in-tune you are. The more accurate the singing, the higher the score.
When dancing, the original artists' video will play in the background, while a silhouette figure appears to the right of the screen which you need to match the movements of. You can view a tiny video of yourself in the lower right hand corner. Or, you can switch views so that you're taking up the entire screen.
The very cool part is that after you finish dancing, you can view a video playback of either part or all of your performance, which you can save (or in my case destroy and remove all evidence of). You can also see snapshots of your performance as well as "golden moments" (which I assume are the classic poses pre-identified in each of the songs). Each of these can be saved in the aforementioned "gallery", or even uploaded to an online portal (where you can see others' performances as well).
For both singing and dancing, you can choose a difficulty level. For the most part, once you get to the more advanced levels the dance moves are authentic (meaning they're the same or very similar to the artists' own moves). This means that to really experience the game to the fullest, you'll need to practice and practice to get the steps right just like in real life. I would have liked to see a "practice" mode where they break down each of the steps for you or at least let you try it in slow motion, as trying to figure it out from the fast-moving silhouette can be difficult. But as soon as you get all the steps right, it's definitely rewarding. Motion tracking using the Sony Move was flawless, even in a dark room.
Here's a list of the tracks that come with the program. Additional ones will be available as downloadable content:
Backstreet Boys - Everybody (Backstreet's Back)
Black Eyed Peas - Shut Up
Blondie - Heart of Glass
Chris Brown - With You
Cyndi Lauper - Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
Diana Ross and the Supremes - Baby Love
Gloria Gaynor - I Will Survive
Gossip - Standing In the Way of Control
Gwen Stefani - What You Waiting For?
The Jackson 5 - I Want You Back
Jamiroquai - Cosmic Girl
KC ; The Sunshine Band - That's The Way (I Like It)
Kid Cudi - Day 'N' Nite
Kool and the Gang - Celebration
Lady Gaga - Poker Face
La Roux - Bulletproof
MC Hammer - U Can't Touch This
New Kids on the Block - Hangin Tough
'NSYNC - Bye Bye Bye
OutKast - Hey Ya!
Paula Abdul - Straight Up
Pitbull - I Know You Want Me (Calle Ocho)
The Pussycat Dolls - Don't Cha
Reel 2 Real - I Like to Move It
Ricky Martin - Livin' La Vida Loca
Run-DMC vs. Jason Nevins - It's Like That
Salt 'N' Pepa - Push It
Shaggy - Bombastic
Sir Mix a Lot - Baby Got Back
Soulja Boy - Crank That
As you can see, most of the songs are family-friendly, although a few may be a little too suggestive to play with children (the game is rated "T" for Teen).
One cool bell-and-whistle is voice-controlled menus, where the PS3 will use voice-recognition to bring you to the right place when you say an artist's name, a genre, or a song. This was a little hit and miss when I tried it, so I kept it off. Playstation XMB navigation good enough for me.
All in all, this is a solid title that makes great use of the Playstation Move's controller and the Playstation Eye camera. With the dearth of really good launch titles for the Playstation Move, I'd say this one is a bright spot, especially if you'll be playing with friends.

Overall the game package is awesome for its price. $40 bucks for a game and two microphones is just a bargain since the first Singstar bundle cost was $60.
The sing modes are the same as the las games in the franchise, nothing new was changed here; what is new is the incorporation of the dance mode (I don't know if the guitar mode is also included, at least some trophies are).
I find dancing to be very hard even if you're playing on easy, I saw videos of Dance Central for the Xbox and it looked a lot more friendlier because you just have to match poses displayed on the screen, in singstar is different though, while you watch the artist clip you will see an avatar performing the dance move in one side of the screen, the whole dancing is shown without breaks, which is hard because you can't predict which pose or move will come next unless you already know the whole dance or you have perform the song at least once (if your memory is good).
If you are planning to have a party with some drink and just to have fun, this game suits well, since you are playing just to have fun and to laught when you see the replay recorded by the camera, everyone could pick up a move controller and try them best even though the game is not as friendlier as it should.
If you are not with drinks, but you are with some friends trying to play serious and competitive with the scores, if your friends never played the game then they probably would want to pass the game or just sing because you need practice to learn the dancing of each song, the game is no friendly.
The song list is OK. Even though some of the dances from some songs are focused to be performed by just one gender (example Lady Gaga - Poker Face, the dance is to girly, with too much hip and girly moves, male performers may feel unconfortable).
Let see how Sony plans DLC songs for this dance mode. Se game is good though.