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The Michael Jackson Game Gets a Name and a Smaller Release Window

RSS by Evan Elden Eller on 08 July 2010, 3054 views
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Ubisoft's Just Dance came out of the blue and revitalized the dancing genre, and now everybody's jumping on board.  To keep the competition at bay, Ubisoft has enlisted the moves of the most famous dancer of all time.  They ended their E3 press conference with a dance-off to Michael Jackson's "Beat It" to announce a new Michael Jackson game, but all we got were two screenshots, a press release, and a placeholder name, Michael Jackson: The Game.  Today they showed the game for the first time, behind closed doors at a Ubisoft event in London.  It shall now forever be known as Michael Jackson: The Experience.  The release window has also been downsized from "Holiday 2010" to the more specific "November 2010."

Michael Jackson: The Experience will be released on the DS, PS3, PSP, Wii, and XBox 360.  The XBox 360 version will have Kinect support, and put a digitized version of yourself on the screen, similar to Ubisoft's new Kinect fitness game, Your Shape: Fitness Evolved.  The PS3 version will also have Move support.  All three console versions will play similarly to Just Dance and have the player match the dance movements on the screen, but this time they'll be MJ's smooth magic motions.  Yes!

The only specific details were about the 360, DS, and PSP versions.  The DS and PSP versions will use what Ubisoft is calling "tap-on rhythm gameplay," which sounds like an MJ version of Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan, which sounds good to me.  The 360 version will also include four player jump in/jump out gameplay (hey I thought Kinect could only score 2 skeletons at once in Dance Central or Dance Masters?), and it will use auto-pitch control to improve your singing, since face it, we can't all rock a falsetto like The King.  It is unknown whether the auto-tuning magic will be in the other versions yet, but it better be.  I know I'll need some support with all the "woo!"s in "The Man in the Mirror" or the falsetto verses in "Smooth Criminal."

But the bad news: they still haven't confirmed any songs other than "Beat It" and "Billie Jean," so we still have to keep our fingers crossed for all our favorites.  So what songs are you looking forward to?  Who's excited for this game as much as I am?  (And more importantly, who's bad?)

Source: Gamezines

Tags Ubisoft, Michael Jackson, Move, Kinect

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7 Comments

ljlrj
ljlrj (on 09 July 2010)

it better have off the wall thriller bad dangerous and invicable . and dont forget jackson 5 albums and none of that dlc shit i want the whole thing

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thekitchensink
thekitchensink (on 09 July 2010)

There will be hell to pay if this doesn't have Thriller.

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LokeSTL
LokeSTL (on 09 July 2010)

Better have "Human Nature" or I'm going to throw a fit!

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SuperSmashGuy
SuperSmashGuy (on 08 July 2010)

I really love Michael Jackson but I'm not really a fan of music based games. Maybe I'll buy it when it's been out for a long time and it's used at a cheap price.

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Darth Tigris
Darth Tigris (on 08 July 2010)

Off The Wall songs or it didn't happen.

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Joel12345
Joel12345 (on 08 July 2010)

Billie Jean,Beat it is all you need
you know it'll have the obvious ones too

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Zedex
Zedex (on 08 July 2010)

Can't wait hope the ps3 version rocks!!!

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