Durruck
Pirate!
Ok, I admit it. I'm a dork. The whole reason I chose the Wii over PS3, XB360 was because of the motion controllers. I play a 360 at work, and it's the same old thing, to be honest. My wife and I were looking for something we could do and could provide a little bit of exercise.
So I picked up the Wii, which came with the sports pack, and bought the DDR:HP. I've never played any DDR games before, although I did marvel at the kids in the mall. So I don't have a basis of comparing *this* DDR to other DDR games.
This game is a little pricey - retails for US$70. However, it does come with the game and the dancepad. Generic dancepads cost around $20-30, and the higher grade pads cost as much as $70. So $70 for game & pad didn't seem too bad to me.
After putting in the disc, the first thing I found was something that I was disappointed with: the "character selection." When I played the sports games, I was able to import my Mii to record my specific data. I couldn't do that with DDR:HP. I had to use generic toons, my data was not tracked separately from my wife's data... so we honestly can't tell who had which high scores, who's making the most progress, etc.
Beyond that, the game is a blast. It starts off with a super easy song that gets your warmed up and gets DDR-newbs accustomed to dancing. You can step it up in difficulty and add motion-controller actions, jumps, and other little things as you get better at the basics. The songs range at 80-160 beats/minute, so you can increase the speed as well as the technical difficulty along the way.
The only other major thing that I didn't like was that the pad slid on my carpet quite a bit, so I'd have to move it back, re-center it after every song. Maybe I got a little overzealous. Not sure.
The game has 4-player support, so you can snag extra pads and play with family/friends. (There are even some features only activated in the multi-player mode; I don't have a 2nd pad yet, so I can't give you much feedback on them). There are about 20 tracks from the last 30 years of music - i recognized about 70% of the songs, but the ones I didn't know were still very fun to dance to. Lastly, there is a workout mode, which does track you by a profile you create inside DDR...not tied to a Mii. Input a little bit of data, and it tracks your progress in the workout mode only: KCal burned, time exercised, etc. Nice little thing if your goal is a little bit of fitness (like mine)
Overall, I'm very happy with DDR:HP. If you're a DDR fan or looking for exercise, this one would be a good purchase.
So I picked up the Wii, which came with the sports pack, and bought the DDR:HP. I've never played any DDR games before, although I did marvel at the kids in the mall. So I don't have a basis of comparing *this* DDR to other DDR games.
This game is a little pricey - retails for US$70. However, it does come with the game and the dancepad. Generic dancepads cost around $20-30, and the higher grade pads cost as much as $70. So $70 for game & pad didn't seem too bad to me.
After putting in the disc, the first thing I found was something that I was disappointed with: the "character selection." When I played the sports games, I was able to import my Mii to record my specific data. I couldn't do that with DDR:HP. I had to use generic toons, my data was not tracked separately from my wife's data... so we honestly can't tell who had which high scores, who's making the most progress, etc.
Beyond that, the game is a blast. It starts off with a super easy song that gets your warmed up and gets DDR-newbs accustomed to dancing. You can step it up in difficulty and add motion-controller actions, jumps, and other little things as you get better at the basics. The songs range at 80-160 beats/minute, so you can increase the speed as well as the technical difficulty along the way.
The only other major thing that I didn't like was that the pad slid on my carpet quite a bit, so I'd have to move it back, re-center it after every song. Maybe I got a little overzealous. Not sure.
The game has 4-player support, so you can snag extra pads and play with family/friends. (There are even some features only activated in the multi-player mode; I don't have a 2nd pad yet, so I can't give you much feedback on them). There are about 20 tracks from the last 30 years of music - i recognized about 70% of the songs, but the ones I didn't know were still very fun to dance to. Lastly, there is a workout mode, which does track you by a profile you create inside DDR...not tied to a Mii. Input a little bit of data, and it tracks your progress in the workout mode only: KCal burned, time exercised, etc. Nice little thing if your goal is a little bit of fitness (like mine)
Overall, I'm very happy with DDR:HP. If you're a DDR fan or looking for exercise, this one would be a good purchase.
