CSM:
"High School Musical 3: Senior Year Dance! is a very physical game. The Wii controls work pretty well if you flip them hard enough. However, occasionally you will flip the controller in the correct direction just as the ball crosses the marker (as required) but get no score. That can be frustrating, but since the game is pretty forgiving in terms of overall score needed to unlock new content, this frustration doesn't ruin the game. The game can be played on three levels of difficulty, with the easiest being pretty straightforward and the hardest being devilishly challenging – so there is something for everyone.
As with the Nintendo DS game based on this third High School Musical film, this game has almost no storyline other than earning things to put into the Wildcat Yearbook. But in this situation, where you are playing simply to dance to the music of all three films, the storyline is not really missed. The multiplayer mode lets you dance competitively or cooperatively, with or against one other player."
MyWii writes: "The High School Musical phenomenon has taken the world by storm. With three movies and millions of fans around the world, it was only a matter of time before we started to see an influx of games based on the franchise. It's no surprise that these games all seem to have come out between the second and third movies, considering High School Musical 3 was the first movie in the series to be shown in theatres. High School Musical 3: Senior Year Dance!, which is available on pretty much every single video-game platform you can think of, takes all of the songs from the first three movies to provide gamers with a seriously lacking rhythm title. Put simply, the only award High School Musical 3 Senior Year Dance is going to win is the award for longest video-game title…ever!"
Other features are that you can browse the East High yearbook to view career and song stats for your personal profile and there is also the option to use the two player menu so you can challenge a friend in a dance competition.
If you've got a younger brother or sister then this may make a decent Xmas present, if they're into the series. But as a stand–alone dancing game the lack of any decent songs and an over simplistic control system relegates this title well and truly off the dance floor.
