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Dance Central Spotlight
The newest game in the award-winning Dance Central series focuses on the core dance experience. With more routines per song and a massive library of additional songs for purchase, Dance Central Spotlight lets you customize your dance sessions more than ever before. Break a sweat with an enhanced Fitness Mode including specially authored routines, o...
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Dance Central Spotlight Reviews
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Dance Central Spotlight is a very good formula to follow for future music games with a cheap cost of admission and the chance to build your own personal collection of songs.
Dance Central Spotlight takes advantage of Kinect 2.0 to better identify players’ movements and creates a more seamless co-op experience. Though it feels like it moves a step back in the series’ multiplayer potential, the hundreds of dance moves, great progression between difficulties, and the more realized Fitness mode pick up the slack.
While not the best "game" there is, this is one of the best displays of the latest Kinect technology. The move to digital is a great choice, as is giving you the ability to compile the soundtrack of your liking in the long run. There just needed to be a lot more meat on the bones of this meal, as well as the ability to get to the main course a bit quicker.
Instead of a huge library, Harmonix wants players to build a lean list just filled with the songs they want to dance to. Unfortunately this only works if one person plans on playing the game, or a group has very similar tastes. Hopefully Harmonix will release larger track packs with increased savings, or add the option to import the on disc songs from previously purchased games.
Kinect has made a lot of unfulfilled promises since its reveal, and continues to do so into the next generation of Xbox, but one of the few games consistently delivering on the promises of the body-tracking controller has been Harmonix’s Dance Central series. It’s a game that would not be fun without the Kinect, and also one of the only Kinect titles that feels like it works as intended. For the latest entry in the series, Spotlight, the fun dancing mechanic delivers, but so much has been stripped from the game that it no longer has any personality or character. It feels more like a platform f...
If you've never played a Dance Central game before, Spotlight is a good place to start. It strips away the finesse of past games, the silly stories and the complex modes better used by skilled players, for a focus on movement itself. With a little help, it's an easy language to learn.