VGBlogger Year-End Dance Off
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."
