Not having staggered levels of complexity for each track with the three configurations leads to some routines being completely out of your league to start off, with no facility to gradually build your proficiency. Call us old-fashioned here at Nintendo Life but that's not 'difficulty', they're “control options”, though the resultant increase in physical coordination will cause difficulty for some. In Easy you'll only have to worry about the Wii Remote, Medium just uses the dance mat and Hard has you strutting your stuff on both. Picking from Easy, Medium and Hard 'difficulties' isn't as straightforward as you may think. After a few stretches and the profound realisation of just how out of shape you are, it's on to the real substance of the title, the We Dance mode in which you'll pick a track from an impressive catalogue and get your groove on. Loading up a slickly designed and vibrantly coloured menu, you're first asked if you'd like to warm-up before playing to avoid pulling a muscle. Setting up the requisite hardware is a doddle, the mats jacking into the GameCube controller ports and requiring no calibration. It's a shame, then, that We Dance is plain terrible in execution. Other than perhaps Dance Central on Kinect, this kind of 'full body' approach to boogieing isn't really attempted elsewhere, giving it an initial aura of refreshing experimentation. The concept itself is pretty novel, utilising both a Wii Remote to track the hands and a dance mat to determine the movement of the feet.

Nordic Games has followed up its perfectly functional karaoke We Sing series with a dancing entry it's calling We Dance. As the number of first person shooters, mini-game collections and cover-based action titles continue to grow, the overall quality within those niches has generally improved as developers realise that launching an inferior product will likely result in financial loss. When a genre of game saturates a market it's fair to expect that any new title coming out within that style of play must do a good impression of the leaders in the field, in the very least aping what made the forerunners successful, hopefully providing an interesting alternative.

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