Spice World is a video game created by Psygnosis for Sony PlayStation released in July 1998.

Content

With tracks like "Wannabe,", "Who Do You Think You Are", "Move Over", "Spice Up Your Life," and "Say You'll Be There", each animated Spice Girl will offer a few comments as they tour the game's stages, experiencing a DJ and dance instructor that speak in stereotypical fashions. There are eleven dance moves, each one a different combination of four buttons, two of which are always the 'X' button. The game also contains a dozen interviews along with other entertaining moments, such as Geri Halliwell pinching Prince Charles' bottom, and the girls wreaking havoc on a Japanese talk-show.

In the game, players have to prepare the Spice Girls for a live television concert by doing such things as teaching them the dance steps they must do for the performance, choosing the song they will perform, and the sequence in which the song's lyrics will be sung. When it's time for the show to happen, the player gets to be a camera-person, deciding which camera shots will go and the angle from which the girls will be seen. The player gets to watch the girls sing and dance as the player has directed them to, with the camera shots selected by the player. The player is instructed by a disco king on what to do. The Spice Girls lent their voices to their characters in the game.

Criticisms and reception

The game received mixed reviews. The New York Times, for example, said 'The music is derivative and shallow. The game didn't have to be.'.

Personnel

• Geri Halliwell – vocals
• Mel B. – vocals
• Emma Bunton – vocals
• Mel C. – vocals
• Victoria Beckham – vocals

Menu

• Mixing Room
• Dance Practice
• Dance Record
• Television Studio
• Spice Network
• Options

Songs

• Wannabe
• Say You'll Be There
• Who Do You Think You Are
• Spice Up Your Life
• Move Over
• If U Can't Dance (featured only in the intro)
• 2 Become 1 (only in the Spice Network)
• Naked (only in the Spice Network)

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