The King of Pop may be gone, but his legacy lives on with this new and exciting dance game that features a collection of Michael Jackson‘s hottest hits.
If you have always dreamed of singing and dancing like Jackson, this is the game for you.
Trackwise, the collection of more than two dozen songs serves up an impressive list of his greatest hits, including Beat It, Smooth Criminal and Who Is It.
Like SingStar and Lips, players have to sing in pitch with the songs to score points but, as any singer knows, Jackson’s high-pitch wails are almost impossible to duplicate.
Instead of allowing players to choose the level of difficulty, songs are labelled based on the level of vocal mastery needed. But no matter what the level, many are going to croon to his signature tunes Billie Jean and Bad.
If you think singing is tough, wait till you try the impossible dance moves, although you have it easier with the PlayStation compared to the Xbox360.
That is because the PlayStation Move controller tracks only your hand movements but not your feet, so you will see the on-screen avatar moonwalking even though you are standing still.
The Xbox360 version, with the full-body motion sensing capabilities of the Kinect sensor bar, allows you to jive like the legend, but it makes it a lot more challenging coordinating your hands and feet – unless you are a dance king.
While players on the PS3 move to Jackson’s avatar, the Xbox version grants you stage presence, as the on-screen avatar is a video image of you.
Aside from the sense of being on stage, players can easily compare their moves to the game’s back-up dancers in real time to note their mistakes, for example, to see if one hand is raised too high or if their movements are a second too slow.
For the Xbox, Will You Be There and I Just Can’t Stop Loving You are sing-only tracks, while some, like Dirty Diana and Who Is It, offer short dance segments but not the whole song.
On the other hand, the PS3 version has dance moves for all tracks, and in I Just Can’t Stop Loving You, there is a two-player dance that the Kinect does not offer.
Singingwise, both games are similar but the game has a pro mode where if you sing and dance, the dance steps get more difficult. Since the Kinect sensor bar has a built-in mic, one way to cheat is to turn your speakers up, so that the Kinect mic detects the vocals from the speakers and you can just keep quiet and still score points.
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