VGW: Dance games are a phenomena that has been lost on me. As a gamer, one of my primary traits is my love of sitting in one place for long periods of time. This trend towards games that make you jump, dance, sing and work out just seemed gimmicky to me, and I’m not one for gimmicks. In fact, I rather prided myself on saying that I have never used the Kinect or Move in any capacity … until Everybody Dance. This was my first experience with the Move and what an experience it was.
BagoGames: Everybody Dance delivers at being a fun dancing game with a surprising variety of modes and features, but the blending of both the casual and the more hardcore dance moves do not mix alongside a somewhat spotty set list of music.
With Ubisoft already having at least three editions of its Just Dance franchise available, it's fair to say that Sony is a little late to the party with its Everybody Dance title. Late, of course, doesn't exactly mean it's bad (though it winds up being halfway there).
VGBlogger writes: "Way the hell back in 1969, Sydney Pollack directed an uplifting little movie called “They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?” For moviegoers whose cinematic memory stalls out somewhere around the first Spider-Man flick, it starred a young Jane Fonda as a wannabe starlet roped into a Depression-era dance marathon where contestants often literally danced themselves to death.
Trying to blaze one’s way through not one, not two, but five different dance videogames in straight succession sometimes felt a little like that movie, especially when the virtual DJ dialed up “Whip My Hair” for the second or third time. (They shoot videogame writers, don’t they? Wait—don’t answer that. ) But it was a necessary sacrifice. In the space of just two years, the dance game genre on modern consoles has become a dance-floor jungle, with all sorts of colorful and chord-happy contenders thumping the bass to stake a claim to your wallets, your heart rates and the dregs of your dignity. Somebody has to separate the Jerry Rices from the Kate Gosselins. You’re welcome."
