Elite Beat Agents

"The game that need to be played once, and twice and even more if you can!"

Since Dance Dance Revolution, I am a big fan of music-oriented games but when my store received this game, I was a little bit intrigued about this game. "A music game for DS tagged Touch Generation without any accessories?" But what a surprise when you touch this game for the first time! It's easy to play but it can be harder to be keeping the right beat!

Game play: 9/10
Easy to play, hard to resist and also very funny! That's what a game need to be tagged Touch Generation and Nintendo is right, this game meet al the requirement and even more!

Graphics: 7/10
One of the best point of this game is that the story is easy to follow by the use of a comic book-like presentation. The most part of the game is in 2D and is very detailed, just like Trace Memory's graphics. But when it's 3D, it's other thing, when teh dancers are dancing in the lower-screen, it's like old DDR games but I need to say that the Choreographing is well done!

Lifetime: 6/10
The game contain more than 15 songs and 4 difficulties. Some peoples will say that 15 songs is not too much but the game is so addictive that you will soon want to finish them all on every difficulties and I'm not talking about the 2 hidden songs and characters!

Soundtrack: 9/10
Very good, top list songs and very catchy! The songs are not the originals ones but they are so well performed and mixed that we could thing that they are the originals versions, so good! I'm always on Cher's song or on "Walkie Talkie Man".

Scenario: 5/10
This is really one of the weak points of the game, you have different scenarios, one for each songs and a final one. Even if the song have a long lifetime, the scenarios are always the same on one difficulty to the other and are not very very developed, but remember that is a music game and not an adventure game!

Overall: 8/10
This is the game that can show the true power of the DS console and the magic of music based games, even if the cover look strange!

Reviewer's Score: 8/10, Originally Posted: 11/13/06