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Michael Jackson: The Experience is in for a Thriller

by Richard Mitchell on Oct 29th 2010 10:00PM

Ubisoft has revealed three more tracks for the upcoming Michael Jackson experience entitled, um, Michael Jackson: The Experience. There will certainly be more than a few MJ fans happy to hear about the inclusion of "Ghost" and "Rock with You," but the highlight of the announcement is easily the Halloween classic "Thriller."

We can only hope that the game will include the full version of the song -- werewolves, Vincent Price and all -- however unlikely that may be. Check out some new screens in the gallery below and some new gameplay footage after the break (no "Thriller" footage, sorry).

Michael Jackson: The Experience (10/29/10)

Tags: ds, Michael-Jackson-The-Experience, microsoft, nintendo, playstation, ps3, psp, sony, tracks, Ubisoft, wii, xbox

Reader Comments (36)

want

Admittedly, MJ's dance moves look slick even in this game, but I would rather watch the music videos again than spend money on this.

And at (00:35) who is going to actually be able to do the lean!?

@Lerkero

Maybe the game will have a bundle with the specially designed Michael Jackson shoes for that move:
http://riazm.tumblr.com/post/130230391/image-of-us-patent-5255452-filed-by-jackson

@Lerkero Just didbt thebt leeeeeeeerrrrnnnnn, hittttt headd on tabbblllllllll;; won''''t be doinnnnng thabt againnnnnnn

It's all fun and games until you realize that it's only tracking the movements of the wiimote in your hand.

@Ray42
That said, I'd love to have just seen this as a Dance Central DLC pack or expansion.

@Ray42

Not on the Kinect version.

@Ray42
except on the kinect version

@Ray42

The Eye can track bodies too, I don't know why no one realizes this...so it would track your body movements AND your Move to give it even more precise tracking.

@DWilson8504
or just as precise as the kinect.

@DWilson8504

Skeletal tracking with a webcam works like crap though.

What is this for? It would be good on xbox 360 kinect

@Samdude15
wii, ps3 move, and 360 kinect

Something doesn't feel right about this game in terms of appearance. Game seems cool but the style Ubisoft chose just throws me off.

Any one else think the left and right next dance move indicators are way too far apart to be practical?

@kaneda26
I think they're separated by main/backup dancers. Main on the left, backup on the right.

I've said this before when they announced this:

I would've been ALL OVER THIS if this was something that was released when I was like 6.

But now I'm old enough to realize that really no guy should be dancing unless they're trying to get some. (at least that's my opinion)

@MystileArmor

??

ability to dance well = instant poontang, esp. ballroom and/or hip-hop

It's a long, hard road though...

@kentuckyfried you hit the nail on the head! I used to ballroom, now that I don't (way outta practice)...sigh...every girl just flocks to my cousins who can do those hip hop tricks...

Thank MJ

I would buy that shit just for Thriller.

I'm guessing there'll be an achievement/trophy for people that come up with creative ways to do the smooth criminal lean?

And for the wii owners...buy a real system will ya? Seriously. Nintendo makes the best games but even as bad as psn/home is it blows the wii's miis/shop channel away.

@SuperWoody64

lmao, go back to your quickscoping!

@SuperWoody64 Nintendo makes the best games, but people should buy PS3s for Home? Salesman, you are not.

@darkinchworm
No, I'm saying that nintendo makes the best games but their online presence and the connectivity/layout of their systems stinks. I was comparing it to the worst of the 2 real systems. Xbox does it best I think, easy to read, well laid out marketplace. Avatar support in games. Nintendo, on the other hand is a hodgepodge on dsi and wii shops. Plus you don't have a persistant "name" like my PSN name or gamertag. PSN is somewhere in between with a decent marketplace and home that has more loading screens than sega cd game.

Michael Jackson's move are one of the hardest to achieve...

Even a Pro dancer have dificulties mimicking the king... how are common people supposed to follow that?

@Ashkental
On easy mode.

@Ashkental I'm sure there will be different difficulty levels as with all rhythm games...that being said...I've got the reason to get a kinect now.

Call me crazy, but I don't think those are the proper step sequences. They are MJ's moves, yes, but I don't think they're being used in the right places in the song (at least, not for "Smooth Criminal"; I don't know "Ghost"). In addition, at 0:20 - 0:23, that sequence is missing a whole bunch of parts, which I know because that's the one part of the dance I actually can do.

As much as I don't care about the 360, this is the ideal game for a Kinect application if there ever is one to justify its existence.

I... Oddly... Want this.

MJ is great and I want to get this, but I find it odd that in all of his songs that I've seen thus far, he's white, rather than it being accurate to the videos and his life at the time. Yeah he was white in Ghosts and Smooth Criminal, but I've seen him in Beat It and in the pictures for Thriller he is white also.

Totally agree, that shows a lack of detail and adherence to the "source material."

Besides that though i was lucky enough to see some Kinect footage which blows this out the water, the Kinect version is portrayed more in the atmosphere of a concert. whereas everything we've seen from the Wii version is pulled from the music videos.

Both of which are being pulled off nicely!

Yep, let's just hope the Move version is everything in between.

Sorry, I didn't follow the subject before.. but;
What is the technique behind this MJ character? It is not cg, isn't it? It is a subsititute/actor footage I think..

Kinect MJ will be the definitive version no doubt.

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