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Just Dance 3

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E10+ Lyrics
Release Date: October 11, 2011
Game System: Xbox 360 / Xbox 360 Kinect
Publisher: Ubisoft
Players: 4
Family Friendly Video Games Approved
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BY ANDY ROBERTSON:
Just Dance 3 brings accessible dancing to Kinect with its four player simultaneous entertainment. The big question is whether the Kinect controller can cope with all those sweaty bodies. Either way, these full body theatrics just wouldn't be possible on the PS3.

(NOTE: The FamilyFriendlyVideoGames.com Grade was not assigned by Andy Robertson. Our US editorial staff assigned the grade.)

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Reduces the risk of injury as players flail around during the more ambitious dances.  Also, removing the controller happily reduces the risk of injury as players flail around during the more ambitious dances. With Just Dance 3 clashes with be skin vs skin rather than hardened plastic vs flesh.

Creation mode is a definite highlight.
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BY ANDY ROBERTSON:

Just Dance 3 brings accessible dancing to Kinect with its four player simultaneous entertainment. The big question is whether the Kinect controller can cope with all those sweaty bodies. Either way, these full body theatrics just wouldn't be possible on the PS3.

Coming late to the full body, controller free dance game party has benefits for Just Dance. Rather than trying to match Dance Central's exacting requirements, as Dance Paradise, Dance Masters did at launch, Just Dance 3 has been able to stick with its quick and easy gameplay.

Free from the desire to please more hard core players (and dancers) this feels like a much better fit for the Kinect audience.

The irony is that, by sidestepping the need to please more hard core players (and dancers) this feels like a much better fit for the Kinect audience and controller. Just like on the Wii you can drop in and out of a dance at will and compete with up to four players dancing simultaneously. But now you are also offered modes that ask each of the four players to pull off distinct choreography -- not only a greater challenge, but also much more theatrical again playing the Kinect's theatrical strengths. And of course the dance detection is the full body not just your hands as it was on the Wii.

In Just Dance 3's move creation mode you can record yourself dancing a particular move and then challenge your friends to pull of your choreography. It's a simple addition, and not entirely new in the world of gaming, but in the more theatrical Kinect games this feature offers many hours of entertainment alone. It mirrors, what seems to be, the natural instinct of young girls (and boys) to make up and meticulously rehearse their own versions of dances they see on TV.

While I am looking forward to the high production values (and new two player mode) of Dance Central 2, the simplicity and child friendly nature of the Just Dance brand - sensibly shaped and clothed dancers in particular - is actually more exciting for me and my family.

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