I'm going to cut to the chase here. Just Dance doesn't work. It's a disgrace to the Wii's casual gamer market, as it is a pitiful substitute to actually playing some albums, getting some friends round and ACTUALLY dancing, not looking like a tool. Sure, there are decent songs on the game, but frankly, for a game aimed at those that haven't picked up a gaming controller at all, or in a long time, it's just a joke. To quote an internet meme, Ubisoft, I am disappoint.… Expand

I am a hard core game and this game is a lot of fun. My girlfriend and I play it and she gets really into the game trying to get everyone to jon in. It has some wonky controls at time, the sensor doesn't seem to pick up all of the different moves even if you do them correctly. It's best played when in the company of others and isn't a bad tool to keep you up and moving. Some of the dancers though look like they were taken from an 80s music video, but I just thought that was funny. Overall, good game to play with friends and family.… Expand

Great game if you play with friends. Only hardcore gamers with no friends don't like it. Video game change! at last!

I better set my self in going to the Disco with my friends and girlfriend rather than playing this. This is a reason why some software developers still don't understand to work with the WII games. In Fact the game doesn't even have a big music list , giving the option to throw it in the antique stuff . Also, the movement aren't readable , well, most of them, so is easy too cheat.

Awful. Simply awful. If you want to prolong this kind of rubbish taking advantage of Wii-owning families, or you lack the willpower to get yourself to shake your arms about a bit, buy this game. Otherwise, stick to Super Mario Galaxy.

This game is just terrible. Its another example of the casual market becoming the ultimate cancer in the videogame industry. Just Dance is basically another rip off of the DDR series. The hand waving is seriously moronic. I dont mind motion control at all as long as its well implemented. The sad fact is that many stunning games are being left on the shelf because of stupid parents/grandparents/boyfriends who dont know any better. The pro reviewers are bang on with this one. Ah well, keep buying it peeps and help kill off an industry ive loved for 20 years.… Expand

I'm a baby boomer who has finally found a fun way to exercise, even if the songs were the ones my kids listened to. It's great. Thank you.

Great game to play with friends and family! It is hilarious to watch people attempt to stay in the beat with the on screen characters. If you tuck away your shyness and are open minded you will have a blast playing this game!

I am a hardcore action adventure type player, but get the right mix of family and friends and this game is great fun. Had a blast!!

I bet you this wouldnt get posted coz metacritic is biased on what to post. All I have to say is this game is awesome and enjoyable, a 10 out of 10! of course people from IGN or any reviewer wont enjoy something hip and cool like this, they are nerds and old people..

I'm just going to have to stand up and defend this game. In the uk its only £17.99 (best price) so its perfect for that - only going to play a few times but great to get out when friends are around genre. Its funny, the tracks are great (with 1 or 2 exceptions Baha what where you thinking) and everyone wants to get involved. Dump off you shyness and give it a go the more effort you put in the better!! My only real critisims are that there is no unlockable features and the scoring could be sharper but at this price point who can complain!!… Expand

The "professional" reviewers of this game are too jaded and are not taking this game for what it is-- it's not for your hardcore competitive shoot-em-up gamer... it's for people who just want to shake it and have a good time, and it does that extremely well! I took this to a party and initially no one wanted to try it-- too uptight, I guess. Well, after my 15 year old daughter and I (overweight and over 40) did "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" everyone else at the party was dying to get in on the fun! They played for over 4 hours, and one guest even plans to buy a Wii and this game because she enjoyed it so much. A bonus is the amazing workout you can get if you really do try to do the dances-- I *hate* to exercise but love this, and it's something my daughter and I have fun doing together. It loses a point with me only for not having more songs, and unlockable songs (say, after you complete a certain number of other songs) would be great. We are really, really hoping that there will be as many versions of this as there have been of Guitar Hero! Ignore what the professional critics say about this and listen to what the actual every day users say-- it's amazing fun!… Expand

I love this game, as well as my wife. we are not gamers, I don't like Mario games, I can't play Rock Band, and I hate COD. but we, non-gamers also have right to play games! and we are usually the people who can decide which game a family can buy. I think from my point, core-gamers can understand why this game gets so low score in almost all the gamer web sites, but still beat COD off the top. I gave this game a score 9, and, for sure, I bought it!… Expand

Got it figured out! Just Dance doesn't track physical location. It tracks momentum. The Wiimote's accelerometers are what's being used, almost exclusively. Subtle movements, slow movements, swift movements. This is how the scoring system works, and it's quite subtle. By slowing my movements in half, my scores have immediately doubled. What's more, I've discovered a nasty little secret about this game: you don't need to follow the dancers at all. Not one bit. As long as you keep the proper tempo, and move your Wiimote at the key moments, you can perform any dance moves you wish. You can even sit on the couch and do nothing but turn your wrist. That's what I've done just now, in fact. This has definitely proven one thing: the "hardcore" game critics who bashed this game so mercilessly have no clue what they are talking about. I doubt any of them even bothered to play more than one or two songs. If I could crack this nut on the first night, then they should have, too. They're not even trying. Frankly, if this is what passes as video game journalism in 2009, then we need to sweep out the whole damned lot. This also raises the possibility of real improvisation in Just Dance. The Wiimote is only paying attention to the acceleration. That means you have far more freedom than Ubisoft has let on. I suspected all along that this game offered more freedom than the Dance Dance Revolution school of rhythm games. I think we're going to discover just how much freedom we've got. Just Dance is the spiritual cousin to Wii Music. They're poinitng the way to the post-DDR, post-Guitar Hero world. And that revolution can't come soon enough. This is easily one of the year's best video games.… Expand

Finally, a game that does not include stomping on a mat to "dance". I have been waiting for something like this to come along for a long time. THANK YOU UBISOFT! It is an absolute blast, I like the simplicity of the graphics, its easy to follow, and if you actually do all of the dance movements it is a very fun way to exercise! I could care less at what score it gives me, or who wins, it is just plain fun to play. The only downfall is that I wish there were more songs to unlock--hopefully there will be Just Dance 2, 3, 4......… Expand

Hilarious and very entertaining. Worth getting, great idea for a party! You have loads of fun and gets you up and moving unlike just sitting pressing a button or two like most games. Yeah the graphics arent great but its not one of those games where graphics really matter that much. The only negative thing is that it dont count your feet movement or your left hand but apart from that its TOTALLY AWESOME!… Expand

What do you get when you take away the extraneous, convoluted gameplay and interface in most dance games and leave just the music, dancing and point scoring? A darned good game that gets right to the point and lets us simply enjoy ourselves. The Just Dance team obviously spent all of their time and resources on the most important aspects of Dance games to create a satisfying overall experience. All good stuff all the time, no time wasted on stupid stuff you didn’t want in your game in the first place.… Expand

This game is FANTASTICS let me break it down for you. 1. The track list will appeal to almost everybody 2. You actually dance. (for all you people who wish to learn this is the game) 3. Forget all the other exercise games out there. This is pure cardio and calisthenics and its so much fun. In fact if your living with your partner and you don't buy this game your really missing out. 4. ITS ONLY 40 BUCKS which is pretty sweet Now that is not to say the game is perfect there could be alittle more defintion of the dancers features maybe a more of an interactive tutorial. Plus if they don't release more tracks the game will eventually get too repetitive,… Expand

I don't like most Wii games due to the imprecision of controls, this game's exaggerated movement, works well for the Wii. It's fun, especially if you jump in knowing full well that this is for groups of friends, and not at all to be played solo. It lacks depth, it lacks a lot of things, but ultimately, my friends and I had a blast.

I purchased this. I really did. I spent time "playing" it. I feel used. I dont understand how so many people are giving it such high reviews. Most of the reviews say that its because its a fun mulitplayer game. Really? When i think of mulitplayer games I think of my mates and I gathered around a T.V, watching as one of us pulls off a game-winning, last-minute, skillful combo in Street Fighter IV, a perfectly timed red shell in Mario Kart , or a lucky-yet-somehow-skilled rebound on Peggle. Not this. You could get the same playabilty from watching a music channel and waving a mobile phone about. Games dont have to be about skill, far from it. But they need to be playable. From a techical viewpoint, this game is complete guff. Just Dance? Just Dont.… Expand

Why is it that the average score for the pro reviews here are so much lower than the user reviews? I have a theory on that. The kind of people that buy this game (like myself) enjoy this sort of game. Do the pro reviewers have people on staff that enjoy dancing games? Apparently not, because the experience we users are getting out of this is far superior to the experience conveyed by the pro reviewers. Just read the user reviews to see that this game is far better than it’s getting credit for in the media. We gamers obviously love it, but if you are hesitant you might want to at least rent it to see for yourself before writing it off. You just may find that it’s the most enjoyable thing you’ve played in a long time.… Expand

When you want to get down and dance this game is a great choice to do it with. Straight to the point and good fun for family and friends to share. Some of the dances aren’t easy, but the game itself is straight forward and easy to play, and it’s just pure fun all the way.

Screw professional reviews. My wife and I have played DDR, Dancing with the Stars, We Cheer, that other Wii game with the microphone - all terrible. This game is great because it is fun. End of story. All you pro reviewers are wrong. Great job Ubisort. Cut a sequel soon!

Honestly, why didn’t someone think of making this game earlier? The Wii is all about accessibility, and Just Dance is easy enough to control for anyone to pick up right away and tough enough if you want it to be for gaming and dancing veterans alike. This game just screams “perfect for the Wii”, this is why I bought this machine in the first place. If we had more titles that were as good as this one, everyone would buy a Wii.… Expand

This game makes me feel free. That’s a rare feeling in games. Even games I love usually have some kind of constraint (you must do this before you can do that and so forth). This game lets me just put in the disc and have an immediate and gratifying experience. What an appropriate title! In the best possible way. I’m free to just dance. I like it.

Thank goodness for games like this in a world full of shooters, action and puzzle games, all of which are great but it’s nice to have something creative and different that gets you moving. The only games besides dancing that get you moving are fitness games, and I just don’t like those. For every good dance game there are several bad ones, so it’s with great joy that this particularly good game exists. I love this game a lot, and I think anyone interested in dancing will love it too.… Expand

Shake your groove thing and shake it hard! This game is better than the reviews give it credit for. User reviews are very good, why are the “official” reviews so bad? I’m thinking that the reviewers are reviewing a game in a genre that they don’t enjoy. For dance game fans, this game is a cut above just about any other dance game on the market. If a reviewer doesn’t like dance games, they should not review dance games.… Expand

I love this game a lot! It's so much fun to get together with friends and dance. Make sure to have enough room to move. The only thing I wish was better about this game was the scoring and accuracy. I also wish it had some tutorial modes for the dances so you could take your time and go at your own pace.

Most possibly the best party-game for the Wii in 2009. Requiring contestants to simply get up and start moving, it just beats other popular titles such as Sing Star, Guitar Hero and Rock Band. Great tracks, easy to get started, and fantastic party fun!

Dancing the night away is easy and fun when you do it at home with Just Dance. No traffic, no parking issues, no crowded noisy smoke filled clubs and no jerks trying to pick you up. Just you and your friends and a terrific game with loads of good music. I guess that without all of the bothersome things that come with clubbing, this game lives up to it’s name!

I play a LOT of games, and there is no denying that in technical terms (graphics, responsiveness, variety) this is pretty poor. On the other hand, it achieves exactly what the Wii is supposed to achieve: getting people off the sofa and engaging with their friends and families through games. Today I had 3 neighbours and 4 kids all dancing and hooting with laughter for about an hour. Priceless.

The official reviewers dont understand what this game is all about. You start up the game and you just dance. There's no modern unlocking of things, there are no controls other than holding the wiimote. You just have fun and dance. Very well done for non-gamers and people who just want to dance and not be bothered with anything else. Lots of fun when family gathers around.

Just dance is pretty awesome ! You have have a wide range of songs they you know nearlly all of them. It picks your moves up so accuratley. If you like to loose weight I could tell you it made me loose weight more than the 'Wii fit' because when I came off it and went on the wii fit I lost my weight to my target.

Multiplayer this game and you'll have laughs, laughs and guess what? MORE LAUGHS! The game makes you DANCE, not just step here or there, dance! The only bad thing in this game is the ausense of level choise and the fact that the game comes with all song unblock! There's no purpose playing singleplayer to unlock things or "fight" with another dancer :(