Dance Dance Revolution Konamix

"The 3rd American Version is the best of the 3 so far."

Control: 10/10
Story: 1/10
Graphics: 9/10
Music/Sounds: 10/10
Replayability: 9/10
Fun Factor: 10/10
Overall:9/10

Konami finally release a good Dance Dance Revolution (DDR) to America. I mean the first DDR had barely any songs and DDR Disney Mix was not good.

Control: 10/10
The Controls for this game is easy if you use a DDR Pad because then it would make the game fell more like the arcade version. Still you can use the Playstation controller, but that wouldn't be to fun to play with. In DDR Konamix (like other DDRs) you wait till the arrow comes to the top row of Up, Down, Left, and Right icons. When the arrows gets up there you step/press the correct arrow and you get rated on how accurate your step/press was. After the song is over you get a overall rating of your accurate steps on the song you just played.

Story: 1/10
Like other DDRs there is not a real story except to just dance and get them correct.

Graphics: 9/10
When you play DDR there is a flashing background with a character dancing around. The character dancing behind the background is the person(s) you choose at the beginning of the game. When you put the game on all music mode you get every single song with CDs to represent the song and a picture at the top middle to show the songs name.

Music/Sounds: 10/10
There is a variety of choices for songs for you to choose from super fast or slow rhythm for you to choose from. There are more than 50 songs you can choose from and play. There is a crowd in the background to boo you whenever your life bar goes down. There is also a voice in the background that is the announcer and says very annoying things.....Like before they still need some Smile Dk. songs like Butterfly and need to add Boom Boom Dollar back to DDR other than that the songs are fine. But, in the next version they could add some new DDR Max 2 songs to it.

Replayability: 9/10
The game will keep you playing almost forever. This game is so much fun with Friends and Family playing against you. The thing that might make you stop playing the game is you might have to replace the pad every once in a while since they break after being used so many times.

Buy or Rent???
Well, I would go and buy this game with the pads right now but you might rent it to test how much you like the game.

Overall
Overall this game is fun way to stay in shape and fun to play with.

Reviewer's Score: 9/10, Originally Posted: 06/17/02, Updated 06/15/03