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Word Up: it's Dance Central DLC

by JC Fletcher on Nov 22nd 2010 2:30PM

Get out your bright red codpiece for this week's Dance Central DLC. Cameo's "Word Up!," whose video features the aforementioned junk accoutrement, is one of the three songs that will be available for your download-and-dance pleasure tomorrow, November 23.

The other two songs include Tag Team's classic "Whoomp! There It Is" and The Black Eyed Peas' "I Gotta Feeling." We've included links to each song's music video after the break, so you can learn some of the moves already associated with the songs, which will likely be worked into the Central routines. For example, the LeVar Burton Seethe.

Dance Central DLC
Available: November 23

The Black Eyed Peas - "I Gotta Feeling" 240 MSP ($3)
Cameo - "Word Up!" 240 MSP ($3)
Tag Team - "Whoomp! (There It Is)" 240 MSP ($3)

Source: Harmonix

Tags: black-eyed-peas, cameo, dance-central, dlc, harmonix, i-gotta-feeling, kinect, microsoft, tag-team, whoomp-there-it-is, word-up, xbox

Reader Comments (24)

Reading Rainbow?

@Nofriendo

star trek: the new gen

I think $3 dollars a song, with no bundles (yet) is ridiculous. There's no way you can convince me that coreographing a dance routine to a song is significantly more expensive than the work that goes into a Rock Band 3 track.

I guess HMX are regretting the price point they made for Rock Band and didn't want to make the same mistake here. But it just seems expensive to me.

http://www.joystiq.com/2010/06/28/dance-central-dlc-to-cost-more-than-rock-bands-harmonix-explai/

@BathTub Consider that these tracks include choreography. I'd assume that implementing choreography into a song is more complicated and more expensive than the instrument enabled tracks. Probably breaks down to, RB: $1.50 song license and + $.50 Instrument track. DC: $1.50 song license and + $1.50 Choreography.

@BlackedOut Yeah I've seen that. It's a modular dance game. the idea that they have to get the choreographer into a mocap suit for every routine is hilarious.
Also embedding new moves into DLC seems quite bizarre as then it wouldn't be available to other DLC, so it has to be in every song afterwards that uses it rather than part of the game. All very odd.

@BathTub: I think you're assuming it is a bit more modular than it is.

Have you played the game yet? Each song has different moves, and it's not like any full time developer can hop in the mo-cap suit and have a go at it.

Geordi?

@CaptainProtonX
"Captain? Is that you?? I've lost my hairband, er, I mean visor!"

Sweet! I will get the Peas and Word Up, probably skip Whomp there it is though. But maybe not.

for $3 a song the Kinect better open a lens and give me one hell of a BJ... I'll pass

I was watching the Word Up video just last night on Cracked. Spectacular stuff.

What the hell is Jordi Laforge doing in this?

Great choice. I probably will buy 1 or 2. Pretty good DLC so far.

I wanna play I Gotta Feeling.

Too bad....

Xbox 360 Exclusive....

@Wazzup4567 Actually, there were noises that Dance Central was going to be made for WiiMote and Move too. Of course, it would be hands only....

http://www.gamestooge.com/2010/06/24/move-version-of-dance-central-coming/

@JonahFalcon

"Don’t expect a Wii version however. Apparently, it can’t collect enough data nor can it track things in a way Harmonix would prefer. This means there’s “no chance” of a Wiimote-controlled Dance Central."

I only have a Wii :\

Damn. -$9

Hot damn. I don't even need flash cards for the "LeVar Point"!

LeVar Burton, aka Kunta Kinte in Roots, aka the host from Reading Rainbow, aka Geordi LaForge in Star Trek TNG, aka the detective in Cameo's 'Word Up' music video.

Learn it. Know it. Live it.

addendum: not only did Mr. Burton host Reading Rainbow, he is also one of the creators.

Those moments in life when you see something ... and afterwords you know things will never be the same. This is one of those moments.

He's the LeVar YOU'LL believe in!

Tag Team back again...

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Posted: Nov 22nd 2010 2:34PM Nofriendo said

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