Topic: Dance Central 2

Had a DC2 party last night and everyone loved it so much more than DC1 (though they loved DC1 way back in the day).

The best new feature to them was the fact that you can sign into 4 profiles and you can rotate through profiles easily (had each of them go through KinectID so that there was facial recognition). Just step up and bam, the Kinect recognizes the person.

The soundtrack is just awesome this time. They all mentioned how they liked this soundtrack more and I agree. Did the song import as well so people like having twice as many songs.

The other great new feature they liked but caused us minor problems some time was the automatic drop-in/drop-out feature. If there are 2 people playing and one person sits down, he drops out and there's only single player dancing. If a second player stands in the frame, he joins in and the players are dancing side by side on the screen. But in the beginning (since this was a new game to us), when we had people switching, we weren't quick in switching people so it would drop to single player and then back to multiplayer. That was a little disorienting on the screen so this time we made sure people didn't drop out during a song or we made sure people switched fast (no indecisiveness!).

And the tutorials section is better as well. Now you can practice just the moves you are having problems with, without having to go through the entire tutorial.

It is indeed a much better experience than the original, especially with the inclusion of a career mode so there's more incentive to play to game alone. I've only done 2 dances so far (not as into it as my brother) but maybe when I start going back to my dance studio, I'll feel more hyped up to play Dance Central 2 and work through my profile