Dance Central, the body-controlled dancing game from the makers of Rock Band, has multiplayer. Itâs no Kinect Adventures multiplayer where youâd be standing side-by-side, in a gesture vs. gesture frenzy. No. It does dance battles. You take turns.
I chickened out of participating in a two-player Dance Central dance battle last week at MTVâs offices, but, hey, I get it. Dance Central multiplayer starts up a song, expects one player to dance along to it, matching moves to score points, and then switches to a silhouetted freestyle mode as one player steps off and the other steps in. Player two dances the next part, racking up points, and then they trade off again. You canât pick your character; the same on-screen character dances the whole song through. Only the people the Kinect is capturing changes.
So donât picture some sort of co-op multiplayer waltz or even team-scored line-dancing. If you want to play Dance Central with friends, youâll be stepping in and stepping off, like a breakdancing battle. Some may chicken out and stay on the couch. Like me!
