Good news for XBOX Users and "Cardio-holic" or is spending time doing cardio just to get slim. Here's the right game for you. I know you're all familiar with Zumba. The great thing is it's now in XBOX 360. So Let's Burn all those fats. But first take a rest and read the reviews
Basically, this is what the first should have been, but it is still lacking some features, maybe the third round will get it right. If you are a Zumba fanatic, have the first one or the DVDs, you will probably want this game. There’s all kinds of music and dance styles included that there is probably something for everyone.
Once you start the song, you literally start right away. Again, I am not sure why this decision was made – there are no cue cards for all of the moves, only certain transitions. To really nail these songs, cue cards would be really helpful. Some songs are repetitive, some songs are not, so there really isn’t a way to learn a full routine other than playing it over and over and over. This time around, a rating system has been included thankfully. It’s your typical 5-star system, and from what I gathered, 5-starring certain songs unlocks bonus videos, but I couldn’t figure out which songs unlock which videos.
The detection system is different. I recall in the first Zumba certain areas would glow red/green when you were doing moves, but this time around, there isn’t any in-depth feedback system which kind of baffles me. Typically second releases improve and move forward, not backward. You are rated though, from nothing at all, to Nice, to Hot and if you do it perfectly, it’s Zumba! I suppose this sort of helps you, but what is so hard about outlining the incorrect body parts? Before I go further, something more ironic, the outline detection system is in the tutorials! I know, it makes perfect sense. As for Kinect detection, it works great. It does even detect your right from left and knows when one is incorrect. Now if the feedback system was in place, it’d be perfect.
Some of the songs are quite long and some are your typical 3 minute length track. I am not one to complain about full length songs, but it seems the really long songs have very repetitive moves. I’ve said it before, so I’ll say it again, we don’t like repetition! I’d rather have a more complex routine that takes me longer to learn than doing the same 5 sets of moves stuck on repeat for 5 minutes. Anyhow, getting Zumba! a few times in a row automatically activates Europhia, which I am not sure if you get bonus points or something, but the camera angles change and keeps it fresh. After the song is complete, you get your score along with how many calories you burned which is always helpful, your star rating and what it labels you, I was labelled as a Zumba Rocker. That’s basically the whole game unfortunately. Here’s a video of a popular song here in the states, but as you notice it’s repetitive.
I know we complained about the tutorial section in the last one, so it seems we were listened to yet, it’s like an unfinished product. The steps you learn are the very basic ones, if I recall again from the first one, you could at least do the whole routine. Some of the steps you learn aren’t in all of the songs so I’m not sure what the point of it is. As I mentioned earlier, it does detect body parts and outlines in red when you are doing something wrong. I really wish this was in the regular mode.
There are only 4 different styles you can learn, with 4 steps from each style. They only included Salsa, Merengue, Reggaeton and Cumbia. I’ll be honest, I have never heard of Cumbia and I would have expected Bollywood to be in there before Cumbia. When you choose a step, it starts you off slow. If you keep perfecting the move with “Zumba!”, the voice over will instruct you to try it at full speed. You can simply say, change speed and it will speed it up to normal. Once you perfect it again, the voice over will say, try something else. That’s all there is to it. Here’s a video of one of the moves so you can judge yourself.
I would like to note the graphics in this one, compared to the first one, these ones are amazing. Realistically though, the venues themselves are standard. What I found really amazing were the actual avatar graphics or if its converted FMV, it’s quite hard to tell the difference but they look amazing – even the girls hair is perfect, and let me tell you, video game long hair rarely looks realistic. Their movements and even the way their clothes move with the dancing is perfect. As you progress, the venues become alive as well, such as the more stars you earn, the more backup dancers (which don’t have the perfect avatar quality) show up.
The sound is all authentic, well from what I know. I only knew about 3 songs out of the bunch. Again, if you are open to music, you will probably enjoy all of these tracks. Speaking of the tracks, I’ll provide you with a 123Kinect.com exclusive again. I put the tracks in their default order and labelled what style of dancing it is so you can get an idea. I did not bother to look up the artists of all of these songs so if you want to hear one, you will probably have to search.
-Activao (Cumbia)
-Aires Habaneros (Tango/Salsa)
-Bubuzela Masal (Samba/Hindu)
-Caipirinha (Batucada)
-Chilin Bombon Guajira (Rumba Flamenca/Guajira)
-Chismosita (Mambo)
-Como Es Que Se Llama? (Cumbia)
-Contigo (Salsa)
-Dance Dance Dance (Hip-Hop)
-Don’t Let Me Down (Swing)
-El Batazo (Reggaeton)
-El Merengazo (Merengue)
-Hindu-Cumen (Hindu/Cha Cha Cha)
-I Know You Like It (Hip-Hop)
-I Wanna Move (Hip-Hop)
-I’m Going On (R&B Ballad)
-La Matanga (Cumbia/Warm Up)
-La Perla (Swing)
-La Rumba De La Papaya (Flamenco)
-Lo Que Traigo (Pasodoble/Cha Cha Cha)
-Mi Vecina (Bachata)
-New Day (Slow Swing)
-Pause (Urban Latino Dance)
-Perror Amor (Reggaeton)
-Poison (Electronic/Dance)
-Que Onda (Axe)
-Que Te Pasa (Cumbia)
-Quebra As Cadeira (Axe)
-Quiebralo Bob (Quebradita/Ragga)
-Salsa Sabrosa (Cha Cha Cha)
-Sukumbiarabe (Indian)
-Ta Picao (Calypso)
-Tigre (Merengue)
-Tu Bomboncito (Cuban)
-Tu Remedio (Cha Cha Cha)
-Un Corazon (Pop Ballad)
-Un Solo Pueblo (Salsa)
-Uno Sabe Bien (Latin Pop)
-Vem Na Zueira (Axe)
-We Speak No Americano (Swing House/Electro Swing)
-Zoka Zumba (Calypso)
-Zu Bailadito (Quebradita)
Fantastic isn't it? Not bad right? So just buy this game and start dancing and doing cardio y'all and most importantly have fun!
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