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Dance Dance Revolution Extreme with Free CD

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Dance Dance Revolution Extreme is the newest DDR Playstation game from Konami. And it does not disappoint.
DDR is a game you play by moving your feet on a controller dance pad and following directional arrows to different songs on your TV screen. You can select different levels from beginner on up according to your abiility.

One of the reasons DDR is so much fun is the variety of options it offers. For example, the background graphics change. You may be dancing with a Captain Jack video with one song or animated visuals with another. You can opt to dance with different characters or dance alone. You can compete with another player, play with one pad or two, choose your songs or have them chosen for you etc. So many options you will never get bored!

Another key element of DDR fun are the unlockables. DDR Extreme starts you off with 44 songs. There are 11 new Konami original songs like "Firefly" and "Jet World" , 5 songs from Karoke Revolution including "Believe", and ""Ladies Night", 11 Konami originals from previous games including "Higher", "So In Love" and "Wild Rush" and 17 licensed songs with "Diving", "Planet Rock" and "Never Ending Story" among them. As you pass certain levels and complete a certain number of songs you UNLOCK new songs. Unlockable songs include "Tsugaru", "Drop the Bomb" "Funk Boogie" and many more.

With DDR Extreme you also "unlock" characters to dance with. You start with two named Blues and Rhythm and eventually unlock others including Baby-lon, Spike, Janet and more. There are also different game modes including endless, oni, nonstop and mission.

DDR Extreme also features a workout mode. You can input your weight and workout goal. You may want to workout for a certain length of time or to burn a certain number of calories. Choose your level of ability and get moving! DDR Extreme will show you approximately how many calories you burned and compare your current session to previous sessions.

One new feature of DDR Extreme is the party mode. These are mini-games. You will need an eyetoy camera (not included with the DDR Extreme game). With the camera your image is projected on the TV and you respond to the activity shown on the screen. You might be wiping bubbles off the screen that hide the game arrrows or feeding animals. Other mini-games include "Coconut Panic" where you shake the trees and catch coconuts, "Magical Ball" bounce the ball on the screen with your hands and more. About 7 of these cute games.

I purchased my Playstation 2 just to play DDR. I thought it would be super exercise and keep my interest and it certainly does. I wear a mini-pedometer and rack up thousands of steps daily moving to the music! It's so much fun you forget you are exercising. Great for coordination too. I highly recommend DDR Extreme and the other DDR games for all ages!


Lee Mellott

Like most people, I discovered Dance Dance Revolution in the arcade. I was a little dubious about the home game, worrying that the plastic dance mats wouldn't provide the full arcade experience.

To my surprise, the home game is even better than in the arcade. You don't have to worry about the volume being too low, the dance mat being broken, or the line of angry people behind you waiting thier turn to play. All this is in your control.

That said, I think Dance Dance Revolution Extreme is the best of the home game series thus far. First, it provides the "Beginner" mode, first introduced in Dance Dance Revolution 2. This makes a world of difference for first time players. Without the Beginner mode, first time players are left with only one or two songs to choose from and a LOT of time in "training" mode. With it, they can start with almost any song, master it, then work their way up in difficulty.

Also like DDR 2, this version has some music videos mixed in with the traditional animae dancers against a silly background. The good part is getting to see the Captain Jack music video, which is quirky fun. The bad part is all the songs with music videos are cut short from their original versions. The most extreme example is a Pet Shop Boys song cut down to one minute! They just stop singing in mid sentence, which is so weird I've stopped playing that song. I don't know if this is because of licensing costs or lack of space on the DVD. Either way, I'd rather have fewer videos at full length than several cut short.

The new innovation on Dance Dance Revolution Extreme is the inclusion of Eye Toy software. There are several mini-games where you use your upper body. They're fun a few times, but are mostly an introduction to the Eye Toy's upcoming potential. The one worth paying for is the "Hands and Feet" game. You follow the normal DDR arrows with your feet while also reaching up to hit the hand symbols with your arms. This makes for a whole new level of cooridation and concentration. I've said for awhie I wanted to see DDR and Eye Toy Groove combined. This is the first generation of that software, and I fully expect it to get a lot better with the next DDR game.

A less innovative, but very popular feature is the "Watch Me Dance" mode. Instead of animated dancers, the Eye Toy camera shows YOU dancing as the arrows scroll by. I found it distracting, but when playing at a party, people like it. If they added a "capture this moment" feature (ala Eye Toy Groove) it would be even better.

There are reviewers out there who dislike the music. These must be very musically conservative individuals, because I think the music appeals to a broad audience. I love the Captain Jack 50's-esque cover as much as the Konami techno songs. If you're so counterculture you buy all your Uniform Rebel(TM) clothes at Hot Topic, perhaps you'll oppose the idea of some cute, perky songs written outside Japan. For the rest of us, this is a great, solid mix of music. Many of the songs are absolutely addictive.

The "workout" mode leaves more than a little to be desired. Good idea, relatively poor execution. I didn't dock a star because simply PLAYING dance dance revolution is such a good workout, who cares about the monitoring? Get a pedometer if you want to count your steps or just use the clock to see how many minutes you've put into an aerobic workout. Believe me, you'll be sweating by the end.

The DDR Extreme arcade version has many different songs from the home version. I'll admit I'm a little puzzled that the two versions have the same name, since they share so little music in common. On the other hand, I know the arcade version will provide me more songs to try when I've maxed out the home game, and that's enough to keep me sated until the next DDR release.

For those people who are such DDR addicts they get all the Japanese mixes before the American release, this is apparently a disapointment. It does make me wish I could try the versions they rave about. However, for people who have never seen the Japanese versions, I recommend this highly. It's a ton of fun.

Part I - Dance Dance Revolution Extreme

An ultra fun video game that gives a good workout just seems too cool to be true, but there is a game that has those attributes: DDR. This great game changed my life and turned me from a lazy guy playing computer all day to becoming a true athlete, as working out is so much fun after playing DDR!

Although DDR Extreme was a big disappointment for a Dance Dance Revolution installment for DDR experts, it's easily the best one for beginners with its familiar songs, easy game engine, and Beginner mode (which debuted on DDRMAX2).

Dance Dance Revolution Extreme and all the other DDR games out there are 2-D games (Except for the dancers in the background) with one major point: Dancing with your feet. You have a dance mat (or stage) where you tap your feet on the arrows planted on the mat at the same time as the matching arrow on the screen is inside the outlined arrow. There are five (or six) ratings you can get for your accuracy: Marvelous (Not on a regular game), Perfect, Great, Good (Which should really be Average), Almost, and Boo. You want to get the first ratings I listed, and not an Almost or Boo, or else your dance gauge (Which kind of shows your health) will start to slip until it runs out and you lose a song. At the end of the song, you can receive an overall grade, depending on your overall accuracy, of either an E (Which you get for failing a song), a D (Which you get for surviving, but receiving a poor score), a C, a B, an A, a double A, or a triple A (Which you get for receiving a perfect score). Even if this sounds cheesy at first, doing this to the exciting music in the background is actually extremely fun.

Four different difficulty levels exist on DDR Extreme (and a fifth one for a few songs): Beginner, Light, Standard, and Heavy (the fifth one is called Challenge/Oni). Prior to DDRMAX2, there was no Beginner mode, and only a few songs (like "Peace Out" and "Cutie Chaser Morning Mix") were easy enough to be beaten by beginners. I therefore only recommend this or DDRMAX2 if you're a beginner.

When you first get the game, you start with 44 songs, and you can unlock 26 more songs for a grand total of 70 songs. To unlock the hidden songs, you must clear songs about 5 to 10 times. Once you do that, a new song is unlocked. The first song you can unlock is called Scorching Moon, and the last one you unlock is called The Legend of Max. You can also unlock new dancers for dancing in the background in songs without real music videos, but I never use characters (Having a character is optional).

If you play a regular game, you can, instead of simply select a song and dance; choose to play two alternate modes: Nonstop and Challenging mode. In Nonstop mode, you can play four songs in a row without stopping. Sadly, there's only a limited selection of lists of songs you can select from, but thankfully, you can choose from "Players Best", which includes the top 4 songs that you've selected the most. This mode was best in DDR Konamix because you could select which songs to be on a list. Challenging mode is hardly worth the trouble. You have four lives, and each time you get a Good or worse, you lose a life. This mode is very frustrating, and only those who can get AA's all the time will find it an attracting way to play.

The Party Mode, which is new for DDR Extreme, is a futuristic-style way to play video games, as you can dance with both hands and feet while seeing yourself dance, although you need the camera for PS2 to do so. Being able to play with both your hands and feet while watching yourself is genius, and must be extremely fun to do. The Hands and Feet Mode is likely the highlight of the Party Mode; the other games are too simple and boring (feeding an animal the right food, etc.).

Along the way, you can unlock two new modes: Mission Mode and Endless mode. In Mission Mode, you dance to different songs with an unusual task to win. Be careful about the visual tricks that are used in many of the songs in Mission Mode. In Endless Mode, you keep dancing until you fail with a randomly chosen character. The songs that you dance to are randomly selected. The problem with it is that you're forced to have a character dance in the background and might end up with one you can't stand.

The Workout Mode in the game allows you to keep track of your fitness and allows you to figure out what you should be doing to keep yourself healthy. If it's on, you'll see how healthy of a workout you got after you finish dancing to a song. Your score will be better if you play fast songs like Drop Out or either of the Paranoia remixes, so play those songs if you want to get fit quickly.

The training mode is a mode where you can't unlock anything, but you can practice the different songs in the game without being stopped by failing and without the thrilling backgrounds. Unfortunately, in DDR Extreme, you can't slow down a song if you need to be able to study something fast and confusing. Even DDR Konamix had this feature.

Finally, I'll take you to the information mode, which gives info about all of the different songs in the game. It tells you if the song you're studying is from a previous DDR game or not, what you should try to do while dancing to the song, or what kind of music it is. According to it, plenty of songs from Dance Dance Revolution Konamix have been brought back, but only three songs have returned from DDRMAX2.


But why is this 2-D game that has the same goal over and over again so great? Well, there are certainly several reasons why:

1. DDR Extreme has a total of 70 different types of songs to choose from. You can find the type of music that's best for you. From a typical energetic dance song (B4U), to a song that's easy to recognize (YMCA, Waiting For Tonight, Like A Virgin), to a jazzy song (On The Jazz, Funk Boogie), to a Japanese pop song (Firefly, Pink Rose), to a supercharged song full of energy (Drop Out, I Feel...) to a song that combines a whole bunch of styles together (JaneJana, Do Me HIGEO Mix, Make It Better), to a theme song from a movie (Never Ending Story, Enter The Dragon) to even a classic song from previous generations of DDR (.59, Drop The Bomb), there's destined to be a song that you'll enjoy.

2. The replay value to this game is incredible, since you can build up your mad skills from beginner to expert, trying to successfully receive all Perfects on songs. You won't want to stop!

3. If you like video games, but you're out of shape, this is a game that can help knock off your weight and keep you fit. I've lost six pounds playing this game since November to December. I've suddenly started to love working out ever since I started playing this game. Seriously, your life will be a lot better after you're fit.

Then again, there are some downsides to this game, but minor downsides:

1. The host of this game gets on your nerves easily. Fortunately, you can shut him off when you're dancing, but not when it's most annoying: When you fail a song. His quote, "W-w-what?" is super annoying, as when he speaks in Japanese.

2. It's hard to find a dance mat that works well. Even the Ignition 2.0 Pad broke down twice within about a couple of weeks for me. It might've been because I was tapping too hard on the arrows, but it still might break down quickly.

3. DDR Extreme for US isn't based on the arcade version, and very few DDR Extreme (arcade) songs are included on the home version ("321Stars", "A", "JaneJana", etc.). Why no "Bag", "1998", "Speed Over Beethoven", and "Paranoia Eternal" (which should've been on DDRMAX2) instead of "Paranoia Survivor"? Not even the licensed songs from the arcade like "We Will Rock You" are on. Konami should release a DDR Konamix 2, a game that should include all of those missed songs from DDR Extreme (arcade) that used DDR Extreme's (arcade) game engine and should keep the DDR experts into DDR.

Anyway, here's the song list included in DDR Extreme, as well as grades for them and comments about what they sound like:

(Songs with * are ones that must be unlocked)

1. .59: A (Exciting)
2. *321Stars: B (This one is easy to hate, but I can deal with it)
3. *A: A (Seems to be pretty darn popular, probably because of its challenge and energy)
4. A Stupid Barber: A- (Strange but interesting euro pop)
5. *Absolute: A (A nice blast of typical DJ Taka sound)
6. *B4U: A- (Awesome techno song about DDR)
7. *B4U (B4 Za Beat Mix): A (A more energetic version of B4U)
8. Bad Routine: C+ (So-so house music)
9. Believe: D (Don't like licensed songs much)
10. Bizarre Love Triangle: B+ (But this is an exception)
11. *Can't Stop Falling In Love (Speed Mix): A (Feel the strength of this song!)
12. Diving: B+ (Deep euro trance music)
13. Do Me (H.I.G.E.O. Mix): B (Groovy house music)
14. Don't Clock Me: C- (Okay old skool song plagued by bad lyrics)
15. Drop Out: A++ (Awesome! Feel the energy and danger of this song!)
16. *Drop Out (Remix): A (I personally liked the original better, but this is still good)
17. *Drop The Bomb: A- (Pretty exciting techno song)
18. Ecstasy: A+ (Excellent and exciting euro trance)
19. *Ecstasy (Midnight Blue Mix): A- (Less exciting than original)
20. Firefly: A+++ (Very exciting buildup, cute singers, and great pop/techno/rock music sound! Excellent!)
21. *Frozen Ray (For Extreme): B (Gentle sound, although harsh steps)
22. *Funk Boogie: C+ (So-so jazz/funk music with very simple steps)
23. Go West: A- (A memorable cover of a Village People song)
24. Higher: B (Happy feeling, though a bit targeted toward female dancers)
25. *Higher (Next Morning Mix): B (Really nothing different except for harder steps)
26. Highs Off U (Scorcico XY Mix): F (Listen carefully - THE F-WORD IS USED TWICE IN THIS SONG!!! Very unfriendly to younger dancers)
27. I Feel...: A+ (Energy. Power soul. Techno. Awesome!)
28. I'm For Real: C (Eh, okay, but a bit sleepy)
29. JaneJana: A- (It used to be an F, but I'm no longer annoyed by it. It sounds very strange.)
30. Jet World: A (Very much fun to dance to with a rock/country combination)
31. *Keep On Movin': C (Just your typical dance song.)
32. Kick the Can: B+ (Finally, Kick the Can is on a US mix! It's pretty fun, though not quite the best.)
33. Kids in America: D (Don't like most licensed songs.)
34. *La Senorita: A (Fun Latin to dance to, although La Senorita Virtual is just weird.)
35. Ladies Night: C (Licensed songs again.)
36. Like A Virgin: D- (Another licensed song, only this time it's horrible.)
37. Love Love Sugar: D (I found this song much too targeted toward female dancers to give it a high grade.)
38. *Make It Better: B (One of the very first Konami Original songs ever. It's rather strange, but still decent.)
39. *Maximizer: A++ (Feels like you're riding a roller coaster!)
40. Miracle: D+ (What the heck is a miracle to the singers of this song?)
41. Mobo Moga: A- (Catchy French pop that's playable for me.)
42. Move Your Feet: D+ (Boring topic. Plus, this song seems like it would be on the first Dance Dance Revolution. I know it only came out just recently, but I actually thought it was from the original DDR. It debuted on this game.)
43. Music: A- (Interesting euro techno)
44. Never Ending Story: C (Eh, an okay theme song remix.)
45. *On The Jazz: B+ (Fun-to-dance-to jazz music.)
46. Only You: B- (A 50's-styled song performed by Captain Jack. I'd highly prefer Captain Jack Grandale Remix over this.)
47. Paranoia Eternal: A (Good remix of the song, though it really should've been on DDRMAX2 instead.)
48. *Paranoia Max (Dirty Mix): A+ (The feel of challenge comes in when you start dancing to this creepy, fast song.)
49. Peace Out: D (I never knew slow songs could be annoying.)
50. Pink Rose: A- (This is a nice song. Its instruments could be better, but aw well.)
51. Planet Rock: C- (More liscenced song stuff. This time, a remix of a futuristic old skool track.)
52. *Scorching Moon: B (A strange-sounding collaboration between Sho-T's Groove and DJ Spunga's Bad Routine.)
53. Simply Being Loved: C+ (Another licensed song, though older dancers might like it a lot.)
54. So In Love: C- (A disco/dance/house track with pretty bad vocals.)
55. *The Legend Of Max: B+ (Energetic, though it sounds a bit too much like a song that would play when you're fighting a final boss in a video game.)
56. The Reflex: B+ (Finally, another licensed song that's actually worth dancing to! A great arrangement of the 80's classic.)
57. Theme From Enter The Dragon: A- (An adventurous remix of a movie's theme song.)
58. There You'll Be: B+ (A fast techno remix of the Faith Hill classic.)
59. *Trip Machine: A (Another of the very first Konami Original songs ever, Trip Machine is very fun to dance to with its mechanical techno sounds.)
60. *Trip Machine Survivor: B (A confusing remix of Trip Machine with more energy.)
61. Tsugaru: A (A combination between Matsuri Japan, Exotic Ethnic, Trip Machine, and Healing Vision. The Egyptian sound of Exotic Ethnic plays through most of the song, though the combination between Matsuri Japan's clunky tribal beat, Trip Machine's stiff melody, and Healing Vision's smoothness keep the song sounding Japanese instead.)
62. *Tsugaru (Apple Mix): A (A remix of Tsugaru with more emphasis on Healing Vision and Trip Machine.)
63. *V (For Extreme): B (A dance remix of an orchestral piece from the early 18th century.)
64. Waiting For Tonight: D (I like J. Lo's version much better than this.)
65. Wild Rush: A (Sounds like a song that would play on a car commercial)
66. *Wild Rush (Remix): B (The remix sounds nothing like the original, and doesn't build up its tempo.)
67. Wonderland (UKS Mix): B+ (A fun remake of Boogie Wonderland.)
68. YMCA: B+ (A disco classic that hit DDR.)
69. *You're Not Here: C+ (The song is too sad.)
70. Your Rain (Rage Mix): C- (Very boring techno music with the slowest overall tempo in the game (84 bpm).)

And now, the Numbuh Infinity-style way to conclude the review: My top 3's:

Top 3 Best Songs:......................Top 3 Songs I'm Best At:

1. Firefly....................................1. Paranoia Max (Dirty Mix)
2. Drop Out................................2. Firefly
3. Maximizer..............................3. Drop Out

Top 3 Worst Songs:.....................Top 3 Songs I'm Worst At:

1. Highs Off U.............................1. Make It Better
2. Like A Virgin...........................2. You're Not Here
3. Move Your Feet.......................3. Theme From Enter The Dragon

Top 3 Hardest Songs:
1. Trip Machine Survivor
2. Can't Stop Falling In Love (Speed Mix)
3. The Reflex (On the Heavy level)

(I would've put on The Legend of Max except everyone would think that it's the hardest song, and I wanted a more interesting song to top the top 3 list)

Top 3 Easiest Songs:

1. Funk Boogie
2. Peace Out
3. A Stupid Barber

Final Grade: A+. The minor downsides have no effect on this incredible game. It's simply amazing. I can't believe there was a way to play video games while exercising at the same time. DDR changes your life. DDR is the best thing that ever happened to me. I recommend this game to everyone! It doesn't even matter who you are!

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Part II - The free CD

Sometimes, the music on DDR can be quite fun. Sadly, the songs included in the game are often fake and are only made for the game and sometimes Beatmania CD's, which are rare. Thankfully, this package comes with a free music sampler that includes 15 Konami songs from DDR. Now you can listen to that exciting Dance Dance Revolution music anytime you want!
Here's the song list:

1. Scorching Moon
2. A
3. Ecstasy
4. Your Rain (Rage Mix)
5. Wild Rush
6. A Stupid Barber
7. Mobo Moga
8. Jet World
9. 321Stars
10. V (For Extreme)
11. I Need You (Inside out Door 3Mixes)[The music that plays in the Information mode]
12. Drop The Bomb (Original Extended Tune)
13. B4U (Glorious Style)
14. So In Love ~train~
15. I Need You (Platinum Mix)

I was a bit sad that "Firefly" wasn't on the CD, but at least the song selection is thoroughly solid and has many popular songs. I actually found this a very worthy CD, and it's by far my most played album on my iPod. It's not that great of a CD when you're just listening to it on a CD player at home or in the car, but it's excellent when you're walking around town with it playing in a portable CD player/iPod.

By the way, this CD can be found in other places outside of this package. You can find it at any large electronics store for free.

DDR Extreme is a solid game. It is DDR in that you move your feet in step with the arrows. However, the songs are different and the Eyetoy is introduced. In some games, the dance pad isn't even necessary. The mini games add a whole other aspect to DDR Extreme. If you're a hardcore gamer looking for the traditional DDR, I would advise against your purchase of this game. However, if you have an Eyetoy and don't plan on playing DDR Extreme excessively, this game is a nice buy.

I LOVE Dance Dance Revolution games... I own all of the US mixes plus a few Japanese ones. When a new one comes out I normally stay up and unlock it all. DDREx was an exception. I took it home and plugged in my pad, turned on my PS2 and found that they made a new game engine (DDREx originally came to Japan)... no big deal, must be to better suit the I-cam, I think. So I go to options to find that that is changed as well... and they also took out an option that turns off all buttons except the arrow keys for pad play. A feature that is on all mixes except this one and is necessary when you are playing a song with 16th notes at 260 bpm. Needless to say this made the game just a pretty shinny disc to me. Good for beginners, but I would suggest going to DDRMax 2, better songs, better engine.

DDR extreme is a total fun and durable game! With its easy touch mat and awesome and GrOoVy songs this game will everlast in the TOY KINGDOM!
my sister and i got this mat about a month ago. The first night we stayed up past 12:00 AM playing this game! I gussed it hooked us! The song were awesome(ladies night...YMCA...Kids of America and so much more) and it gave us quite a workout! And kids, teens, and adults will be tested to the challenge with the differnt levels (begginer, light, intermidate, standard and challenge!)!
This game is 5 STARS*****! I hope you will make the right decison and take a risk..........TRY THIS GAME!

If you're a dancing fool, you have GOT to try this game. Not only is it a DDR dancing game - but it also includes the EyeToy camera functionality for full body fun!

The basic game is the same as normal DDR, and doesn't involve the camera. You get a batch of 65 games to dance with, either alone or with a friend. The more you play, the more songs you unlock.

But the best part in this game is the extra games with the eye-toy. There's a basic dancing version that lets you watch yourself dance, which can be fun. But the best games involve a combination of hand and foot movements. My favorite involves a series of dance steps AND two hand spots you have to hit in time with the music. It is a brilliant combination and really gets you thinking about moving and balancing. There's another game that requires you to 'sweep the screen' to keep it clean, so you can see what the foot movements are. It doesn't require as much coordination but is also fun.

You also get a few mini-games that are just about the eye-toy, that let you play breakout and catch-the-coconuts using your body. Even though these might seem silly, they make amazingly fun party games.

As with most of these games, a lot of the fun involves how much you enjoy the songs they play. I have to say that I personally wasn't thrilled with the song mix in here. I realize that in the US there are all sorts of licensing issues, but I would have to think that bands would be THRILLED to be on this mix and get thousands of new fans from the players. But instead there were only a few songs I really loved. Many of them were ones that I've seen on every other mix, like YMCA. So I really wish they would include more songs - or more of a mix of songs from various music styles.

But even just playing my favorite songs over and over again is great fun - and the scoring helps encourage you to keep going to get that better score. The game gets difficult enough that you have to truly work on the game quite a bit - and be in excellent shape - which can't be said about most games out there!

Highly recommended!

Marriage of eyetoy and DDR was a disappointment, in my opinion. The DDR part of the game is fun, with excellent graphics and new choice of dancing models. It is supposed to have a calorie counter and count down so I can time my sessions. Like the second DDR, the manual is not very helpful, and I have not been able to figure out how to turn on the time counter. Additionally, I can only play three songs at a time before the game forces me to start over with a new set of three. This makes timing my exericise difficult.

I have several of the DDR games and DDR extreme has the best music selection by far, which can be both motivating and fun. My only problem with it is that workout mode is terrible. Whereas with other DDR games, your amount of calories burned per step was visible on the bottom right of the screen, this game shows you how many calories you burned only at the end of the song, and if you don't really dance to the song, and just let it play out, it adds the possible calories you could have burned if you did do the song to your total, which can be misleading if you don't realize that. (In other words, it isn't really counting the calories you burn - but giving you an idea of how many calories you CAN burn per song). I would still recommend it - but be aware of that misleading workout mode.

I first discovered DDR in an arcade. Then when i was 8, my cousin got 3rd mix shipped from Japan, I always played it. But I wasn't the best player. After a while I forgot about it but then i saw DDR Extreme at BlockBuster. I remebered it and rented it and thought it was great. But after I tried Max and Max 2, DDR Extreme sort of got boring.
I didn't like the way the songs are sorted, in that wheel, i would rather have the cd's or the same type of it as 5th, Max, and Max 2. They are putting that in Extreme 2. The song selection wasn't that great, at least you have a few characters. A few of the songs are good.
So if you havent bought it, wait for Extreme 2. It has way more characters, online play, and songs like Butterfly (Upswing Mix), Captain Jack (Grandiale Remix), Cartoon Heroes (Speedy Mix), Genie in a Bottle, Oops... I Did it Again, 1998, Boom Boom Dollar, and more. It comes out September 29th so wait and get that instead if you want an item from the Extreme Series. Both items from the Max Series are great!