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85 of 89 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
All give praise to Japan!, September 27, 2002
I love DDR. I play it regularly. I have been waiting for this game since June. But enough about me, heres some things about the game that might interest you.1. Introduction of a new "hold" step. A new kind of dance step where you have to step on the arrow for as long as the arrow is there. 2. If you are accostomed to the american DDR konamix, you should know that another primary difference will be that the arrows go down, not up. They drop down from the top in DDR Max. 3. "MAX 300" - this is the title of a 300 bpm song that you will be able to play in DDR Max. Yes, 300. That is not a typo. I ran and hid after I saw someone play this song. (and I thought konamix's Drop Out, which was 260 bpm, was fast). 4. Ever notice the dancers? I never really paid attention to them, but i guess some people will probably miss them now because they're not in the DDR Max. 5. If you've never played DDR before, this will be a good place to start, a good list of songs, and future releases of DDR will end up mimicing this one. 6. This is the American release of DDR 6th Mix. 7. You must have a dance pad, all DDR games are absolutely no fun at all without one. Two pads is even better, because it enables not just 2-player functionality, but different game modes that utilize both pads at once. 8. The average framerate in the game is about 60 fps. (don't human eyes only percieve at like 39???) I give this game an A++. My only gripe about this game is that there could have been more music. Yes, yes, there are about twice as many songs on DDR max as on DDR Konamix, which is alot. But this is a PS2 disk, I KNOW they could have put more songs on this game if they wanted to.
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53 of 55 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Years after its release, still a worthy purchase, February 12, 2006
Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars
I picked this game up for some variety after starting with DDR Max2 and DDR Extreme. While DDR Max 2 is still my all-time favorite (I own Flow, Pump It Up, Into the Groove, DDR Max 1 and 2, DDR Extreme 1 and 2), this game places second in my book.
It has good variety in the difficulty levels of the songs. Some I can pass on Heavy easily after a year, and some songs I still can't pass on Standard. There are some really slow songs with a hip-hop vibe and some really fast techno ones, and songs in a whole range of styles and speeds, so whatever mood I am in, I can usually get into a good flow with this music and want to keep working out.
There is a training mode just like with DDR Max 2, where you can slow the songs down and gradually speed them up as you get better at each sequence, which is invaluable for Rhythm and Police and Exotic Ethnic, two awesome but very fast songs!
The downside to this game is that it doesn't have nonstop mode like DDR Max 2, but the game mode is structured so that you don't have to keep flipping through a ton of menus if you pass each song, so it isn't as necessary as it is with DDR Max 2.
I am grateful that DDR Max excludes the dancers as I find them distracting.
The (nearly complete) song list (I've starred my favorites!):
22 Dunk - Slake
5.1.1. - DJ Nagureo
Abyss - dj Taka
*AM-3P - kTz
*Baby Baby Gimme Your Love - Divas
Brilliant 2U (Orchestra Groove) - Naoki
Broken My Heart - Naoki (feat. Paula Terry)
*Candy - Luv Unlimited
Celebrate (Beat Mania Version) - JJ Company
Cutie Chaser (Morning Mix) - Club Space
Dark Black Forest (Short Trip) - Steve Rhyner
Deep In You - DJ Nagureo
Do It Right (Harmonized 2 Step Mix) - SOTA (feat. Ebony Fay) Drop the Bomb (System S.F. Mix) - Scotty D.
Dynamite Rave (Down Bird Sota Mix) - Naoki
*Ecstasy - D-Complex
Electro Tuned (the SubS mix) - TaQ E
*Exotic Ethnic - RevenG
*Gambol - Slake
Gentle Stress (AMD Sensual Mix) - Mr. Dog (feat. DJ Swan)
Get Me In Your Sight (AMD Cancun Mix) - Symphonic Defoggers with 1479
Gradiusic Cyber (AMD G5 Mix) - Big-O (feat. Taka)
Groove 2001 - Sho-T (feat. Brenda)
Healing Vision - De-Sire
Healing Vision (Angelic Mix) - 2MB
Holic - TaQ
*I Like To Move It - Reel 2 Real
I'm For Real - Slake
Insertion - Naoki
Jam & Marmalade - Final Offset
Kind Lady - Okuyatos
*Let the Beat Hit Em! (Beat Mania IIDX Version) - Stone Bros.
*Let the Beat Hit Em! (Classic R&B Style) - Stone Bros.
*Let's Talk It Over - Shin Murayama (feat. Argie Phine)
Logical Dash - DJ Taka
Look To The Sky - System S.F. (feat. Anna)
Look To The Sky (True Color Mix) - System S.F. (feat. Anna)
Love Again Tonight (For Melissa Mix) - Naoki (feat. Paula Terry)
Love This Feelin' - Chang Ma
*Matsuri Japan - RE-VENGE
Max 300 - Omega
Midnite Blaze - Jewel Style
My Generation (Fat Beat Mix) - Captain Jack
My Summer Love - Mitsu-O! with Geila
Never Let You Down - Good-Cool (feat. JP Miles)
*Ordinary World - Aurora (feat. Naimee Coleman)
*Orion.78 (Civilization Mix) - 2MB
Overblast!! - L.E.D.
Paranoia Evolution - 200
Paranoia Max (Dirty Mix Club Another Ver.) - 190
*Peace Out - dj Nagureo
Remember You - NM (feat. Julie)
*Rhythm and Police (K.O.G.G3 Mix) - CJ Crew (feat. Christian D) Rugged Ash - Symphonic Defoggers
*Sana Morette Ne Ente - Togo Project (feat. Sana)
*Sand Storm - Darude
Secret Rendezvous - Divas
Share My Love - Julie Frost
Silent Hill - Thomas Howard
So In Love - Caramel S.
Spin the Disc - Good-Cool
*Stomp to My Beat - JS-16
Synchronized Love (Red Monster Hyper Mix) - Joe Rinoie
*Take It to the Morning Light (Extended Vocal) - Golden Gate
The Cube - DJ Suwami
The Shining Polaris - L.E.D. (feat. Sana)
Trip Machine Climax - De-Sire
True (Trance Sunrise Mix) - Kosaka Riyu
You Leave Me Alone - Venus
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28 of 31 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
This is *not* DDR MAX, but it's still a great game, December 31, 2002
DDR MAX, in the arcades, was the 6th version of the popular dance game, and contained all new songs. Almost none of those songs from the arcade version are in this version. That is disappointing.However, there's very little to be disappointed about in this game in itself. The first thing I noticed is that the PS2 engine makes the arrows scroll much more smoothly than they do in the PSone versions. Also, the FMV backgrounds are very cool, and the interface is far easier to use. The music selection is much more varied than in the first two home versions of DDR, though I'm not ready to say it's better. Some songs are incredible, including old DDR classics like Rhythm and Police and Gentle Stress, newer classics like Healing Vision Angelic Mix, Exotic Ethnic and Max 300, and new licensed songs like Take It to the Morning Light. Some hideous songs are included too, such as Celebrate, I'm For Real, Gambol, 22 Dunk... songs that could have been replaced by the many, many DDR classics that have never been on a U.S. home release. Many songs have creative little tricks that make them more interesting than the Konamix songs, such as more tempo changes and stops. For example, in the song "Healing Vision Angelic Mix," the arrows, scrolling very quickly, suddenly halt completely for one beat, then keep moving. Once you know where the stops are, they're quite fun to play. The freeze arrows, where you have to hold a certain arrow for a length of time, also make the game interesting, as sometimes they force you to spin around on the pad, face away from the screen or use one leg to tap several buttons in a row. I am slightly annoyed by the inclusion of several songs from Konamix (Matsuri Japan, Healing Vision, Era, Baby Baby Gimme Your Love, Holic, etc.), because most likely anyone who buys this game already has Konamix. Other songs are repeated (Cutie Chaser, Look to the Sky, etc.), but these are new mixes and have new steps, so that's acceptable. If you buy this game, do not, I repeat, do not buy the [...] pads available in stores. Order them online. If you buy soft pads, make sure they are the type that have a zippered compartment for padding on the inside...
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