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 Send to email | Yes, I Really Did Watch A Guy Play Boogie Superstar [Boogie SuperStar] in Boogie SuperStar Ea Girls Music games Wii |  By Leigh Alexander
el 27-Jun-2008 |  Girls, girls, girls. No, it's not a Vegas review, it's the target audience for EA's Wii title Boogie SuperStar, which was announced yesterday. I swung by EA's New York press event yesterday, too, where the game was on display, and I took a look at it.
I'm presuming that very few of you reading this are young females between the ages of six and 12 who love to karaoke to Leona Lewis' Bleeding Love, or dance to the best of Fergie and Good Charlotte. The songlist is intimidatingly marquee, though, and one of the major takeaways from having the game demoed for me was just how far games have forged in getting the music biz to recognize their power in helping label artists stay relevant to a new audience. And while Boogie SuperStar might not be a game specifically for you or for me, I think that's pretty important - equally cool was the motion recognition tech. It'll come bundled with a microphone for pretty standard-looking pitch and note duration-based karaoke, but for the dancing portion, you hold the Wii remote and Nunchuk and do whatever moves you're prompted to do. Simple stuff, like twirling or arm-rolling, but the guy who was demonstrating for me (yeah, a guy) seemed to be able to move really naturally and have the game still clearly understand which moves he was doing. The fun part was that the on-screen avatar (characters are fully customizable, by the way) did whatever moves the guy was doing even when they were wrong - in other words, rather than lead the player, the on-screen character follows him, always attuned to the player's movements. That was pretty neat. It looked like the kind of thing my eight year-old girl cousin would love to have at her next birthday party. There are cartoony narrative cutscenes following your chosen glamor girl's rise to stardom, suitably imbued with 'tween girl signposts of coolness and drama, so the game knows its audience well, even when that audience isn't me. Girl games have a tendency to make us cringe a bit, but I suppose I'd rather have my cousin rocking out with this game than something with Bratz in it. Shudder.
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| Hey Girls! Become a Boogie Superstar! [Girls, Girls, Girls!] | | Hey Girls! EA is trying to get your attention! They've got a brand new game coming to the Nintendo Wii, and it's just for you! Boogie Superstar allows girls to sing and dance their way to superstardom to the tune of the hottest hits for girls! Girl-favor [..] Read complete article | | Published 26-Jun-2008 by Mike Fahey in Girls, Girls, Girls! Boogie SuperStar Ea Gallery Game Announce Media News Wii
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| Three New DDR Titles Boogie Down Your Way [Konami Gamer's Night 08] | | Dance Dance Revolution is celebrating ten years of people making dancing fools of themselves in public with the launch of three new DDR titles, each for a different console. Dance Dance Revolution X for the PS2, Dance Dance Revolution Universe 3 for the Xb [..] Read complete article | | Published 15-May-2008 by Flynn De Marco in 10th anniversaryDance Dance Revolutionkonami gamer's night 08Ps2WiiXbox 360
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| Soulja Boy Keen On Making Video Games [Music] | | When not making music and making fun of Ice-T, hip-hopper Soulja Boy has a dream: He'd like to go to college. And that's a very admirable dream! Thing is, he's a superstar right now so he'd cause a big ruckus if he went college. People would bug him while he's trying to study and stu [..] Read complete article | | Published 29-Sep-2008 by Brian Ashcraft in Music braid Culture Soulja Boy
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