{"id":882,"date":"2010-01-22T18:16:14","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T23:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/?p=882"},"modified":"2010-02-28T17:03:40","modified_gmt":"2010-02-28T22:03:40","slug":"modern-warfare-2-loses-out-to-dance-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2010\/01\/22\/modern-warfare-2-loses-out-to-dance-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Modern Warfare 2 loses out to Dance Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"Just Dance\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chart-track.co.uk\/assets\/images\/0\/2010looksalotlikethe80s_805_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"249\" height=\"235\" \/>If there is anyone out there who still doubts that the video game market is changing, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerandvideogames.com\/article.php?id=231823\">here is news<\/a> from the UK that <em>Modern Warfare 2<\/em> has been knocked from its #1 chart position by <em>Just Dance<\/em> (Feel the groove, Hit the move!).<\/p>\n<p><em>Just Dance<\/em> appears to be a dance game where the Wiimote tracks your dance moves. (A bit like <em>ParaParaParadise<\/em> I suppose.)<\/p>\n<p>Now, this game wasn&#8217;t exactly a hit with the gamer press. <em>Just Dance<\/em> has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamerankings.com\/wii\/971423-just-dance\/index.html\">GameRanking of 53.6%<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/wii.ign.com\/articles\/105\/1051389p1.html\">IGN rates it 2 out of 10<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I could try to talk about the visuals or the sound or sloppy way the  game grades your dance moves, but I just don&#8217;t have the strength. It&#8217;s  attention that the game, quite simply, doesn&#8217;t deserve. Do not buy this  game. Do not rent this game, do not look at this game on the shelf,  don&#8217;t even <em>think<\/em> about this game lest someone at Ubisoft find out  and they prep a Just Dance 2. Such would be the end of all things, mark  my words.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sounds so bad it just might be good, doesn&#8217;t it? Amazon US users currently give it 4\u00bd stars out of 5.<\/p>\n<p>(Full disclosure: I got MW2 when it came out &#8211; and I really enjoy it. It&#8217;s just that I wouldn&#8217;t mind playing <em>Just Dance<\/em> as well. And that I enjoy watching the whole anti-casual posturing.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If there is anyone out there who still doubts that the video game market is changing, here is news from the UK that Modern Warfare 2 has been knocked from its #1 chart position by Just Dance (Feel the groove, Hit the move!). Just Dance appears to be a dance game where the Wiimote tracks &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2010\/01\/22\/modern-warfare-2-loses-out-to-dance-game\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Modern Warfare 2 loses out to Dance Game&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-casual-revolution","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}