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Dance Factory (game)

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Dance Factory is a PlayStation 2 game developed by Codemasters. It is similar to Dance Dance Revolution, but generates steps from any music CD. The game is also slated to be released for the Nintendo Wii.

Modes

Dance Factory also has a variety of modes:

  • Endurance encompasses playing through the five licensed songs on the game, or an entire CD.

  • Fitness is similar to Endurance mode. Weight is entered at the beginning which can be altered to the player's own weight, which can range from 10.00kg to 200kg. There is a calorie counter on the screen and Mis-stepping displays 'Pork Out' and 'Gettin' Flabby' instead of 'Miss.' When a song is finished, the screen shows the number of calories burned and how far one would have to jog, swim or cycle to burn off the same number of calories burnt.

  • Creature Mode gives the user a creature for each cd (or the one that comes with the five original songs). The creature dances and the user can use some of the points earned by dancing in order to buy clothing and accessories for the creature.

Criticisms

Dance Factory has often been criticised by reviewers for being little more than a 'novelty' that does not always synch the dance steps to the beat. In their October 2006 issue, Games Master magazine rated the game 68%.

Game Informer stated in its August 2006 issue that the game makes a track based on the tempo of the song and not the rhythm, and that the game seems to lose sync with the notes after about three minutes into a track.

In Dance Dance Revolution games, like on the ADM-3A computer terminal and in the vi text editor, the arrows are in the order left, down, up, right. But in Dance Factory, the arrows are in the order left, up, down, right. This makes the game difficult to play for those used to the arrows of DDR.

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