Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Michael Jackson The Experience NDS & Wii Review Part 2

Hello and welcome to Part two of the Michael Jackson: The Experience Review.
This time i will review Michael Jackson, The Experience on wii, and my, my is this an odd case, on with the show...
Review: Michael Jackson The Experience-Wii
Graphics: The graphic i have seen here are some of the best i have seen in a dancing game ever, ok the people have a ghost like aura to them so you can't see there face, but thats only because, they had to use a MJ impersonator to do the dance moves because MJ is dead, so they would have to at least try to make the dancer look like MJ. Unlike the Ds Version, there is a difference with every Song's setting and the dance moves in it. For instance, The song Ghost's takes place in a haunted mansion, and half-way through, Michael Jackson spins and turns into a skeleton...now when i first saw this i was amazed, especially with the back up dancers in their ghostly attire...Yes, this game has, unlike the DS version...Back up dancers.Now The Background was nice too, not only did the odd ghost appear on the roof of the inside of the Mansion every now and then, but the fireplace behind MJ and the dancers was flickering wildly as well.This is the full footage of Ghosts, from Michael Jackson The Experience, here for Review purpose only...
Another song that impressed me a lot was Earth song, the setting, like the music video, in a post apocalyptic future, but halfway through the song started showing off the wii's graphics, while MJ is yelling and Dancing (no backup dancers in this song), Thunder cracks in the background while wind a black ash (i think)  flies all over the screen, take a look...
So That was the graphics part of the review, the graphic showed that even a non HD console can have better graphics than some HD ones (cough cough Sonic 2006 Cough cough).
Now onto:

GAMEPLAY: Now the gameplay is basically the same as just dance and just dance 2, you basically use the wii remote and follow the dance steps shown on left or right (Depending on if you are MJ or a backup dancer respectively) when they reach the marker at the top, now there are some problems, like for one, the wii remote isn't the best motion sensing controller in the world, and you could be dancing using your whole body and it would only sense the movement of the arm the wii remote is in, so really you could just stand there moving your hand but well, whats the fun in that eh? also some of the symbols are slightly informative, like when it tells you to do a certain move, sometimes there is more to the move than indicated on the icon. and sometimes there isn't an icon, but that usually only happens when the dance moves are in the pattern and you know what dance move comes next.
Now those flaws aside, its a decent way to dance and, if you can't do a certain move, play other songs to get stars and, unlike the DS version, these stars unlock tutorials to teach you how to do the moves both in-game and in real life instead of pointless memorabillia.
Overall, the gameplay is pretty damn decent, if slightly faulty.
Now onto the final and possibly most important part of a dance game:
THE SOUNDTRACK:
Michael Jackson The Experience on Wii has about 27 songs, which is 15 more than the DS version, and of course, they all have a different background and most of the time different clothes and colours on MJ, instead of the blandness of the DS version, also the dancing moments are unique with each song...and of course THIS ONE HAS THRILLER!!! although some of the slow songs get boring easy due to the slow dance moves and easy difficulty, so anyway yeah the music is perfectly synced in with the dance moves unlike....The DS version...and you may think i am slandering the DS, but as you can see Ubisoft are clearly putting more effort in the home console games instead of the Handheld games...even the Psp has the same graphics as the DS version, although, the PSP version does have THRILLER!!! unlike....the DS version.
So Overall The Graphics are some of the best on wii, the gameplay is excellent, if slightly bad, due to the consoles disabilities, but the soundtrack, due to the fact that its Michael Jackson, although the often slow songs get kind of boring.
So Overall, i Rate Michael Jackson The Experience:

1 comment:

  1. Must Buy eh? That pretty much sums MJ wii up. Again, a very informative review, and you used video footage? Jolly good idea! Now... what game are you going to review next? o.0

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