If you?re a Kinect owner but have yet to lay hands on a copy of Dance Central or Dance Central 2, you?re really doing yourself a disservice as an owner of that particular accessory. However, if you?ve held out until now for whatever reason, Dance Central 3 looks to offer up a pretty comprehensive take on this dance rhythm party game from the developers over at Harmonix, and offers up more reasons to get a group of likeminded friends together and have some fun.
The original Dance Central was pretty much THE reason to pick up a Kinect when the accessory launched a few years back. And Harmonix (with the help of Backbone Entertainment) has continued to build upon the success of the game with each iteration, so you?ll find that Dance Central 3 might not break the mold that the series has created, but certainly builds upon it just enough to warrant making another dip into the franchise. The core gameplay is still pretty much the same; you?ll get an eclectic mix of musical tracks, covering hits from the 70?s up until today, which makes use of a number of popular dance crazes from their respective decades, including flash in the pan hits like ?Macarena? and more.
While the basic structure remains largely unchanged here, there are a handful of additions worth mentioning. For one, there?s a full on story mode, featuring time traveling heroes represented by characters from the previous games, which cement themselves in different decades and attempt to master the dances of those periods. You?re headed up by the DCI, an intelligence agency which serves the purpose of introducing two new characters to the cast. The story side is light hearted, fun, and downright goofy, but I appreciate a mode that feels like it gives players an overall goal to achieve. If you prefer, you can still just jump in, play any song you like, learn the moves, or create your own set lists, but I definitely thought that the story mode was worth checking out.
Finally, and probably the best addition to the series so far, is the Make Your Move mode. This is essentially HORSE in Dance Central, giving players the chance to create their own set of moves, and then have other players step up and to try to imitate the motions. I was a bit skeptical on how well the game would record and know the moves created by the originating player, but to the credit of both Dance Central 3 and the Kinect, it never seems to miss a beat. Make Your Move is easily the most fun you?ll end up having with the game, and once you get a group of friends together, it?s definitely the mode you?ll want to jump into first.
I do hope that if a Dance Central 4 is produced, we see even further changes and additions than Dance Central 3 has to offer, but as a party game, and a fun Kinect experience, Dance Central 3 really manages to knock it out of the park. While there may seem to be less and less reason to break out the Kinect this late in the console generation, Dance Central 3 makes a strong argument for dusting off the device once again, and acting like a fool in front of your TV.
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