Everybody Dance

by Sony

• Play with up to 20 friends in Party mode
• Dance to the official music videos from 40 of your favorite pop, hip-hop and club hits
• Share performance videos and photos on Facebook and Twitter
• Choreograph custom dance routines and challenge your friends to compete again your moves
• Learn Beginner, Intermediate, Professional and Partner routines for every song

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0050SXQ12
• Product Dimensions: 5.4 x 4.9 x 0.6 inches ; 4 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: October 18, 2011
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (74 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,887 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #5 in Video Games > PlayStation 3 > Games > Rhythm > Dancing

Product Description

Amazon.com

Everybody Dance™ is your ticket to the hottest dance party around, exclusively available on the PlayStation®3 (PS3™) system. Developed by Sony Computer Entertainment Europe Ltd.

40 Hot Tracks

Capture Performances

Learn to Dance

Synopsis

Everybody Dance delivers a high-energy dance experience set to a soundtrack of 40 chart-topping party hits including Usher’s “OMG,” “Party Rock Anthem” by LMFAO, and “Barbra Streisand” by Duck Sauce, that feature the original artist’s music videos. Using the PlayStation®Move motion controller and PlayStation®Eye camera to track and score moves, players can test their dancing skills with three difficulty levels, each featuring unique routines for every track produced by world-renowned choreographers. Everybody Dance allows players to hit the floor solo style, team up with a second player for a cooperative Partner Routine, challenge a friend to a competitive Dance Battle, or use the Party Play mode where up to 20 players can go head-to-head for the ultimate dance-off. Players can also use Everybody Dance’s Dance Class feature to improve their skills through detailed routine breakdowns and then take their game to the next level by developing original choreography using the Dance Creator feature.

Key Features:

• 40 Hot Tracks – Everybody Dance features 40 top-selling party tracks from artists including Usher, LMFAO and Duck Sauce, set against the backdrop of their original music videos. New tracks will also be available for download via PlayStation®Network.
• Three Challenge Levels – Anyone can get in on the action, choosing from easy, medium and hard routines. For another fun challenge, dancers can hit the floor with a second player for a competitive Dance Battle or team up with a friend for a cooperative Partner Routine.
• Party Play – With Everybody Dance’s Party Play mode, up to 20 players can create profiles and go head-to-head in an epic dance-off. Dancers’ scores will be recorded to prove whose moves reign supreme.
• Capture and Share Performances – Utilizing the PlayStation Eye camera, players can record and play back their performances. Players can even share their best moves with fellow dancers around the world by uploading their performances to everybodydancegame.com and sending links to their Facebook and Twitter accounts.
• Dance Class – With the tutorial Dance Class feature, players can learn how to master any routine by practicing choreography in small, easy to learn sections.
• Dance Creator – Everybody Dance’s innovative Dance Creator feature allows players to create custom dance routines which they can use to challenge their friends in local play.
• Dance Workout – Using the Dance Workout feature, players can track their fitness progress and calories burned during their dance sessions.
• Sing-Along – Players can score extra points by amping up the crowd and getting them to sing along to their dance performances.

Product Description

Get ready to rock the party! Coming exclusively to PlayStation 3 system, Everybody Dance challenges you to 40 of the top pop hip-hop and club favorites. With the Dance Creater feature, choreograph custom routines and then challenge your friends to score against your moves. Share your dance victories by posting videos and photos on Facebook and Twitter.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

150 of 152 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Pump Up The Volume....Dance, DANCE! October 30, 2011

By The Matrix Fan TOP 500 REVIEWERVINE™ VOICE

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Fun: 5.0 out of 5 stars   

Length: 9:32 Mins

In this video, I go over the following items:

Dance Now: You can dance by yourself, do a dance battle, or complete a song with a dance partner.
Party: Up to 20 players have a dance-off to see who can get the highest score.
Dance Studio: You can create a solo or 2-player dance, take a class to learn dance routines, or try the workout programs.
Get More Songs: The PlayStation Network will be offering downloadable songs.
Galleries: You can view saved photos and videos here.
Options: Allows you to link to Twitter and Facebook, and allows you to turn singing mode on or off.

- I also go over a few of the drawbacks, and then I show you how much fun this game is to play.

I've uploaded a few screenshots in the "Customer Images" section as well.

Enjoy!

145 of 147 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Not Just Dance nor Dance Central, but still a strong "real dance" game in its own right for Playstation Move. October 21, 2011

By Nutwiisystem.Com TOP 1000 REVIEWER

Fun: 5.0 out of 5 stars   

Back in 2009, Ubisoft's "Just Dance" for the Wii introduced the concept of dance games using "real dance moves". It and its sequels were a huge success, selling over 10 million copies and counting. The game appealed to people on many levels. Individuals could play it to learn real dance moves and get a great workout. Families and friends could play it together and have fun with the choreographed routines. A year later in 2010, Microsoft introduced "Dance Central" for the Xbox. It brought to the table accurate full-body motion tracking of the Kinect and sold 2.5 million copies.

In all this time the Playstation has been somewhat left out in the cold. Singstar Dance was an early attempt to cash in on the "real dance move" craze, but at the end of the day it was a karaoke title with dancing spliced in as an afterthought. "Everybody Dance" is Sony Computer Entertainment's long-overdue dive into the genre. And it's a pretty good one.

As the game starts you need to set up the Move controller by pointing it at the screen. As with Just Dance, only one controller per player is used which you hold in your right hand. The system supports a maximum of two players.

There are a couple menu options:

Dance Now: Here, you can dive right into one of the 40 songs that the game comes with by selecting an album cover using your Move controller. Each song has an "energy level" indicator from 1 to 3. Since the Amazon listing doesn't have the song list as of the time of this writing, I'll list them here.... They are:

- Amerie - 1 Thing (2)
- Barry White - You're the First, The Last, My Everything (1)
- Basement Jaxx - Where's Your Head At (3)
- Billy Idol with Generation - Dancing with Myself (3)
- Bodyrockers - I Like The Way (2)
- Carl Douglas - Kung Fu Fighting (1)
- CeCe Peniston - Finally (1)
- The Chemical Brothers - Hey Boy Hey Girl (2)
- Chromeo - Night By Night (2)
- Dam-Funk - Hood Pass Intact (1)
- Deadmau5 - Ghosts 'N' Stuff feat. Bob Swire (2)
- Diana Ross - Upside Down (2)
- Duck Sauce - Barbara Streisand (2)
- Elle Goulding - Starry Eyed (1)
- Elton John - I'm Still Standing (3)
- Fatboy Slim - Praise You (2)
- Groove Armada - Superstylin' (2)
- Ida Corr Vs Fedde Le Grand - Let Me Think About It (1)
- Jay Sean featuring Lil Wayne - Down (1)
- Kool and the Gang - Get Down On It (1)
- Lady GaGa - Born This Way (3)
- LMFAO - Party Rock Anthem (2)
- M/A/R/R/S - Pump Up the Volume (3)
- Miami Sound Machine - Dr Beat (3)
- New Kids on the Block - You Got It (The Right Stuff 2)
- Nicole Scherzinger - Don't Hold Your Breath (1)
- Ok Go - Here It Goes Again (3)
- OutKast - The Way You Move (1)
- Puretone - Addicted to Bass (2)
- Raphael Saadiq - Radio (2)
- Republica - Ready to Go (3)
- Rihanna - Rude Boy (1)
- R. Kelly - Step In The Name Of Love (1)
- SNAP! - The Power (3)
- Sublime - Santeria (1)
- Tiesto v Diplo feat Busta Rhymes - C'mon (Catch 'Em By Surprise 3)
- Tinie Tempah - Pass Out (1)
- Usher featuring Pitbull - DJ Got Us Fallin' In Love (2)
- Usher featuring will.i.am - OMG (1)
- Willow - Whip My Hair (2)

Overall, I'd say the artist selection is "hipper" than Just Dance or Dance Central, the kind of set list you might see from a DJ in a club. This may be an advantage or a drawback depending on your musical tastes.

Once you select a song, you can choose one of three levels: Beginner, Intermediate, and Professional. Beginner and Intermediate are about the difficulty of a typical song in Just Dance, with basic dance moves. Professional, on the other hand, adds things like complex movements, spins, jumps, and more expert-caliber choreography. Master any song at the Professional level, and you'll surely wow them at your next wedding or party.

Finally, you can select a length of the song. "Normal" songs range around 3-5 minutes, while "Short" versions last about 1-2 minutes.

Game play itself is fairly simple. As with all the other dance games, your goal is to match the on-screen dancer by mirroring his or her moves. While Just Dance has a silhouette to follow and Dance Central uses a hipster doofus cartoon character, Everybody Dance displays a real video image of a human dancer in a gray color. I personally prefer this, as it's easier to pinpoint the precise moves to follow. It's a nice touch that the video image looks like the artist, and the choreography does a great job of capturing the artist's style; in many cases, the moves mimic the same ones the artists perform in their video.

The more accurate your moves are, the more points you'll rack up and you'll be awarded one to five stars at the end. You'll also be rewarded for "streaks" of contiguous successful moves. As with Just Dance, if you stand still and just wave your arms in the right way, you'll be able to rack up points. But of course, the fun in this game isn't in collecting points, it's in performing the real dance moves.

As much as the game is derivative of previous dance games, there are a couple features in Everybody Dance that are truly innovative. While you're playing the game, you can watch the original artist's video playing in the background. Press the "triangle" button and it switches to a live video image of you. You'll even see a "trail of light" that shows your Move controller's motion. This feature is extremely useful when you're learning the dance moves, as you can precisely compare your body position and moves to the on-screen character's.

Once the dance is over, you'll see your point total, number of stars, and longest streak. You'll also be able to view a 30 second video clip of your performance, as well as 10 snapshots that were taken during the performance of you in various poses. You have the option of saving them to the PS3 hard drive or posting them to Facebook or Twitter (and to the PS3 Community).

By default, you dance in solo mode until a second player turns on their Move Controller. Once that's done, the menu changes to "Battle Mode", where you can compete against each other in any of the songs in Beginner, Intermediate, and Professional levels. Alternatively, you can also select "Dance Partners", where each player gets his or her own unique choreographed moves in a single dance routine. Bear in mind that for two players, you need at least 8-10 feet of space in front of the Playstation Eye so that both of you fit comfortably on the screen, and even then you may end up bumping into each other or hitting each other.

"Party" mode is another pretty cool innovation. It starts off by asking you to take pictures of each person who's participating, from 2 up to 20 people. Then, it'll pair two competitors at a time to a dance-off. The two selected dancers can choose a song, difficulty level, and song length to compete to. The rounds keep going until you stop, at which time you'll be shown the overall winner (based on number of songs won, awards won, and longest streaks), rankings, and the biggest rival.

The "Dance Studio" menu offers three options: Dance Creator, Dance Class, and Dance Workout. "Dance Creator" lets you record and play your own routines, either solo or with a partner. You're shown a full-screen image of yourself (with the music video playing in the corner) and you basically record yourself dancing. You can then play your (or others') saved routines from the Dance Now, Party, or Dance Creator menus (complete with very accurate scoring).

"Dance Class" is a great way to learn the dance moves, highly recommended for the "Professional" difficulty level. The system will break down the song into short sections of about 30 seconds each, and you loop through each section 4 times. Surprisingly, it took me only one or two times going through each section to master it for most songs, even at professional level.

With "Dance Workout", you start out by setting up a new profile. You take your picture and set your weight using the Move Controller. Then, you select a pre-defined workout which consists of similar songs bundled together at different difficulty levels. Each workout consists of 3 songs and lasts about 10 minutes (Professional+ workouts consist of 5 songs and last 15-20 minutes). There are 12 workouts in total across the different difficulty levels.

As you work out, a calorie meter is displayed on top of the screen showing you the target calories for each song. As long as you match the hand movements, you'll get credit for the calories, but of course to get a true workout you need to be "honest" and really do all the motions you're asked to do with your whole body.

Choosing "Get More Songs" will quit the game and take you to the Playstation Store to download additional DLC. As of this writing (October 21, 2011) there were no songs available yet, but expect that to change very soon.

"Galleries" is where you can go to visit all your past saved performances, either ones you saved to your hard drive or uploaded. You can also visit the "Community Gallery" which shows the 30-second videos and photos that others around the world have uploaded. You can vote for videos you like which will help them rise in popularity. As of this writing the game has only been out for a few days, and yet there are already hundreds of videos out there, a few surprisingly good, most not so good. Some observations: men currently seem to outnumber women by a large margin, and grown men should *really* think twice before uploading a video of themselves dancing to Willow Smith's "Whip My Hair".

You have the option of turning "singing" on and off. If you turn singing on, you can sing into the Playstation Eye microphone, or into a USB microphone or wireless headset. After each song you'll get a "singing rating", but that's about it--it doesn't even record your performance.

Everybody Dance is an interesting game to rate, mainly because it naturally leads to comparisons with the games that came before it. I'd say from a "pure fun" perspective, Just Dance still holds the advantage. From a "motion detection accuracy" perspective, Dance Central's full body tracking is arguably superior than the Wii or the PS3's "one-handed solution" for these kinds of games. If you come with pre-set expectations from either of those games, you might be disappointed.

Having said that, Everybody Dance does do both of those things pretty well, and is an excellent game on its own merits. The innovations that Sony brought to the table, including more advanced choreography in original artist's own style, the community features, the accuracy of the "Dance Creator" (which is definitely superior to the same feature on Just Dance for the Kinect), and the ability to dance side-by-side with the on-screen character all catapult Everybody Dance into the same echelon as those games. And of course it is easily the best dancing game available for the Playstation Move right now. Read more ›

28 of 29 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars ArmstReview - Everybody Dance October 21, 2011

By Donnell Armstrong

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Fun: 5.0 out of 5 stars   

Everybody Dance is Playstation's exclusive dance game from the developers of the Singstar series. After playing other PS Move dance games (Singstar Dance, Michael Jackson: The Experience), I was worried that the tracking/scoring may not be very accurate. However, after playing my first song I was pleasantly surprised. This game has the best tracking I've seen in a PS3 dance game. I received "Flawless" or "Awesome" where I felt I nailed the dance move and "Ok" or "X" where I could have done better.
There is a wide variety of songs to dance as well. Hip hop, pop, slow jams, etc. The game is really good at allowing everybody to dance. There aren't too many songs that are exclusively feminine. Very good mix here. There is a lot to choose from and there will DLC coming soon to keep things fresh.
One thing that I didn't know about the game was that the dance routines are different for each difficulty which is awesome. It's like, you learn a basic routine for Beginner, then in Medium they add more moves and even more moves for Professional. It really increases the re-playability of the songs.
Workout mode is pretty cool. You choose how intense you want your workout to be and the game will put some songs together accordingly. It keeps track of calories burns and could be helpful for those looking for a good exercise.
It has Facebook/Twitter/Community features that allows you to share your good times and it works as expected.

Everybody Dance is absolutely the best dance game on PS3. Great presentation, songs, dances, gameplay, etc.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Fun, aerobic workout October 28, 2011

By Gcat VINE™ VOICE

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Fun: 5.0 out of 5 stars   

My wife typically does kickboxing or zumba workout videos but now she finds that this game is more fun and you get just as good a workout if not better. Adding wrist weights really wears her out.

WHY THIS GAME IS FUN:
*Very easy to pick up and play. You don't need instructions. It is all pretty much self-explanatory.
*Great visuals and nice presentation. It is easy to follow the dancing person in the middle of the screen.
*Dance moves are fun and not overly complex or fast.
*3 different routines for each song which allows you to gradually learn and improve your skills.
*Fun for 2 players to play simultaneously either in "competition" mode or "partner" mode.
*Displays the music video and lyrics so those who aren't dancing can watch and sing along.
*The "Dance Create" mode allows you to record your own dance so that you or others can play it back and follow along. You can really go crazy with creativity (or silliness) here.
*The best part is not yet available at the time of this review and that is the online store where you can buy more songs. If you have played the Singstar game (which is a fantastic karaoke game btw), the concept is the same. Eventually, you'll get bored with the included songs, so the ability to buy more songs gives this game a much longer life.

WHAT COULD BE IMPROVED:
*A continuous play mode would be nice so you can really use it as an aerobic workout video. Custom playlists and shuffle play would be necessary.
*It can be difficult to determine whether you have done a move correctly. There is a slight lag before you get your feedback and you have to avert your eyes from the dancer to see the feedback. The controller can also easily get out of sight of the camera depending on your setup.... These are non-issues if you play the game purely for fun (i.e., not competitively).

OVERALL: I had a surprisingly good time playing this game and was working up a sweat pretty quickly. It is a great game for families or parties. Don't have the expectation that this is a "competitive" game. The included songs are a very good mix but I'm looking forward to adding more songs that I like. Hopefully, the online store will have a lot of songs available because this is what will really make the game shine.

UPDATE 11/6/11 - As of now, the online store only offers a 4 pack of songs for $9. Lame and expensive. The store needs to offer a ton more songs and allow individual song purchases. The long-term survival of this game depends on the online store and the early returns are not good. Read more ›