Music Generated Games - Dance Factory, Audiosurf, Def Jam: Icon, Song Summoner: The Unsung Heroes, Monster Rancher 4, Vib-Ribbon (Paperback)

Chapters: Dance Factory, Audiosurf, Def Jam: Icon, Song Summoner: the Unsung Heroes, Monster Rancher 4, Vib-Ribbon, Monster Rancher 2, Helix, Beats, Monster Rancher 3, Monster Rancher Evo, Traxion, Musika, Music Catch, Raycatcher, Is - Internal Section. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 72. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Dance Factory is a PlayStation 2 game developed by Broadsword Interactive and published by Codemasters. It has been compared with Dance Dance Revolution, but unlike those games generates dance moves from any music CD. It can be played with any PlayStation controller and allows input from the EyeToy camera, but is typically played with a foot-operated Dance pad and is available with or without a pad in the package. Dance Factory has a variety of modes: Dance Factory has been widely reviewed; without duplicating exhaustive lists and summaries elsewhere, the extracts here show the range of response. Reviews have been polarised, generally positively by those who appreciated the key USP - the way that it can work with any CD, rather than just a few bundled tracks, and who found it suited their taste in music - but more critically by those who compared it with Konami's Dance Dance Revolution series. The differences stem from the gamut of the game and the tastes of the reviewers. Whereas tracks for other games are chosen and often edited to suit the game, allowing very precise timing and even cues that are not directly implied by the music, Dance Factory works with a much wider range of tempos, track durations and genres than pre-programmed rhythm action games. But this potentially infinite variety means that results vary - some songs work better than others and certain CD tracks may not be playable at all: the UK Official PlayStation magazine tested with a 'Let's speak...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=691414