Michael Jackson : The Experience DS

[abigsmurf]

Cash in of questionable taste aside (this must've been greenlit what, a couple of months after his death?), this shares more that a slight bit of similarity with another popular rhythm game on the DS...

http://www.siliconera.com/2010/11/07/michael-jacksons-experience-on-ds-is-a-lot-like-elite-beat-agents/

Still, Ouendan with MJ songs sounds a fairly enticing prospect.

[Dogg Thang]

Cash in of questionable taste aside (this must've been greenlit what, a couple of months after his death?)

Well he was barely dead when they announced that This Is It film so I guess this isn't all that different. That's if he's actually dead and not cashing in on these himself...

[abigsmurf]

True, but at least with This Is It, it was something he was working on right up to his death and you'd feel that it's something he'd want his fans to see.

There's an album of "unreleased" songs coming too which is tacky. Hopefully they are actual archive recordings and they're not stupid enough to use an impersonator. No doubt every tabloid on the planet will be hiring experts to do voice print analysis on them which'll show if it's fake.

[toythatkills]

If reviews imply some kind of difficulty, I'm absolutely getting it.

Trailer gameplay looks slooooooow though.

[Junko]

I will stick with Ouendan and Elite Beat Agents if its all the same

[NemesiS]

They had the Wii version of this in the Manchester Arndale centre a couple of weeks back.

There was a big stand in the middle of the shopping centre mall with plasmas and loads of promotional girls getting people out of the crowd to dance to Smooth Criminal and Billie Jean. It drew massive crowds and tbh it looked really good. Watching four people at a time trying to do smooth criminal was hilarious.

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They had the Wii version of this in the Manchester Arndale centre a couple of weeks back.

There was a big stand in the middle of the shopping centre mall with plasmas and loads of promotional girls getting people out of the crowd to dance to Smooth Criminal and Billie Jean. It drew massive crowds and tbh it looked really good. Watching four people at a time trying to do smooth criminal was hilarious.

You KNOW you was one of the peeps doing the MJ crotch grab infront of an audiance, trying to impress the promo girls......

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[toythatkills]

Did this come out? Anyone get it?

Lack of reviews ain't promising.

[Dogg Thang]

I saw a poster advertising the Michael Jackson Experience. Another poster had been put on top of it so that the bottom of some of the letters were cut off. Looked like it said he was the King of Poo. Kept me amused most of the day. I took a pic. Might post it tomorrow.

[Nu-Eclipse]

I will stick with Ouendan and Elite Beat Agents if its all the same

Is correct.

[Dogg Thang]

Here it is - http://yfrog.com/ei88u01j

Yes, I'm easily amused.

[toythatkills]

Is correct.

Have you played this then? What's wrong with it?

Here it is - http://yfrog.com/ei88u01j

Yes, I'm easily amused.

[Nu-Eclipse]

Have you played this then? What's wrong with it?

Er...No I haven't played it before...but that's missing the point on your part, to be fair.

I've agreed with Junko because this game seems to be little more than a tacky and cheap cash-in/rip-off of the highly successful Ouendan/EBA games. Why would I want to play MJ: The Experience when I already have Ouendan, Ouendan 2 and EBA which clearly appear to be far superior and sport the exact "Experience" that Ubisoft have shamelessly aped?

[toythatkills]

They don't appear to be far superior, they appear to be far the same.

If they're the same then you're getting 20 awesome new tracks to play along with with the gameplay you clearly love already. Why can't it sit alongside those games, if it turns out to be good? If it's rubbish, then your opinion is still invalid until you've established such.

Oh, and EBA highly successful? LOL.

[Nu-Eclipse]

Oh, and EBA highly successful? LOL.

Not successful in sales, granted, but the cult buzz off of Ouendan (especially on the import side of things) was enough to persuade iNiS to bring the format to the West as EBA AND make Ouendan 2. All three games given great reviews. Perspective is the key here, no?

Yes, I did love those games. I loved them for their refreshing originality at the time. I can't have MJ: The Experience sit alongside my copies of the aforementioned games because I would like to see Ubisoft come with something better and more original than a shamelessly-aped knock-off of a five year-old rhythm-action game engine that screams tacky and cheap cash-in.