{"id":3035,"date":"2011-06-02T07:03:31","date_gmt":"2011-06-02T00:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wellconnectedmom.com\/blog\/?p=3035"},"modified":"2011-06-02T07:03:31","modified_gmt":"2011-06-02T00:03:31","slug":"country-dance-for-the-wii-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wellconnectedmom.com\/blog\/country-dance-for-the-wii-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Country Dance for the Wii Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\">by Lori Cunningham<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3046\" title=\"Country Dance Wii Game\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wellconnectedmom.com\/blog\/p-content\/themes\/atahualpa342\/images\/articles\/2011\/06\/Country-Dance-Wii-Logo.jpg?resize=210%2C210&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Fun Wii game - especially for country fans\" width=\"210\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wellconnectedmom.com\/blog\/p-content\/themes\/atahualpa342\/images\/articles\/2011\/06\/Country-Dance-Wii-Logo.jpg?w=300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wellconnectedmom.com\/blog\/p-content\/themes\/atahualpa342\/images\/articles\/2011\/06\/Country-Dance-Wii-Logo.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/> <\/span><\/p>\n<p>My daughter came home from her friend&#8217;s 8th birthday party raving about the fun game they played on the Wii, perhaps you&#8217;ve heard of it, Just Dance 2?\u00a0 All the girls danced together in sequence with the &#8220;woman&#8221; on the screen.\u00a0 They had a blast.\u00a0 My daughter loves dancing and is always picking up new moves.\u00a0 So when I had the opportunity to review Country Dance by GameMill Entertainment, I jumped on it.<\/p>\n<p>My husband and I have enjoyed country music for years now, ever since we visited the Grand &#8216;Ol Opry in 1995&#8230;and Garth Brooks was the surprise guest!\u00a0 For whatever reason, since our kids were born, we haven&#8217;t listened to country music as much.\u00a0 I saw the Wii Country Dance as a great way to introduce our children to country music and learn how to move to its beat. \u00a0 See what the game looks like:<\/p>\n<p>Country Dance features music from today and yesterday&#8217;s top country artists.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a listing of some of the game&#8217;s top songs:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Boot Scootin&#8217; Boogie &#8211; Brooks &amp; Dunn<\/li>\n<li>Just to See You Smile &#8211; Tim McGraw<\/li>\n<li>Chattahoochee &#8211; Alan Jackson<\/li>\n<li>I Feel Lucky &#8211; Mary Chapin Carpenter<\/li>\n<li>Stuck Like Glue &#8211; Sugarland<\/li>\n<li>Honky Tonk Badonkadonk &#8211; Trace Adkins<\/li>\n<li>Forever and Ever &#8211; Randy Travis<\/li>\n<li>Redneck Woman &#8211; Gretchen Wilson<\/li>\n<li>Hoedown Throwdown &#8211; Miley Cyrus<\/li>\n<li>Life is a Highway &#8211; Rascal Flatts<\/li>\n<li>Achy Breaky Heart &#8211; Billy Ray Cyrus<\/li>\n<li>A Little Less Talk &#8211; Toby Keith<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All the songs in Country Dance are original, so you can&#8217;t help but sing along to your favorite artists as you dance.\u00a0 Similar to Just Dance 2, you are graded on how well you mimic the moves of the country dancer on your TV.\u00a0 If you keep to the beat and move nearly identically to the country dancer, you are graded a &#8220;Great.&#8221;\u00a0 Miss a step or move and you are graded &#8220;Good.&#8221; \u00a0Miss a few more steps and you get an &#8220;OK&#8221; or if you&#8217;re really off, you get a red upside down horseshoe (which I&#8217;m fairly certain really means &#8220;Bad.&#8221;) \u00a0At the end of the song, you are shown your percentages of &#8220;Great,&#8221; &#8220;Good,&#8221; &#8220;OK,&#8221; and &#8220;Bad.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There are four modes:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Practice<\/strong> &#8211; gives you the layout of the game and how to anticipate upcoming moves<\/li>\n<li><strong>Normal<\/strong> &#8211; mirror each dance move on the screen to gain the highest points<\/li>\n<li><strong>Stop &#8216;N Go<\/strong> &#8211; while mimicking the onscreen dancer, a &#8220;STOP&#8221; appears.\u00a0 You need to stop.\u00a0 When &#8220;GO&#8221; appears, you can go.\u00a0 If you dance when it stays &#8220;STOP&#8221; or stop when it says &#8220;GO,&#8221; you lose points.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Perfection<\/strong> &#8211; the hardest mode &#8211; you only earn points when you have &#8220;Great&#8221; moves.<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3045\" title=\"Country Dance for the Wii\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wellconnectedmom.com\/blog\/p-content\/themes\/atahualpa342\/images\/articles\/2011\/06\/Country-Dance-for-the-Wii.jpg?resize=400%2C225&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"If you love country music, you'll love Country Dance for the Wii\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wellconnectedmom.com\/blog\/p-content\/themes\/atahualpa342\/images\/articles\/2011\/06\/Country-Dance-for-the-Wii.jpg?w=400&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wellconnectedmom.com\/blog\/p-content\/themes\/atahualpa342\/images\/articles\/2011\/06\/Country-Dance-for-the-Wii.jpg?resize=300%2C168&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I tried dancing to Country Dance by myself and I thought I was doing pretty well.\u00a0 If I do say so myself, I was pretty fly.\u00a0UNTIL, my daughter got home.\u00a0 She made the moves seem so natural.\u00a0 It was then that I started noticing that I was dancing more like a chicken than being fly.\u00a0 Oh well.<\/p>\n<p>Country Dance uses the remote control, no dance pad is needed. \u00a0To make it easier for your to mimic the\u00a0on screen\u00a0dancer, the next move is shown at the bottom of the screen so you can prepare yourself to be in sync with the dancer. \u00a0I noticed that the game is somewhat forgiving, so your moves don&#8217;t have to be exact. \u00a0This is very helpful with children, as they can still score pretty well.<\/p>\n<p>Up to four players can play Country Dance.\u00a0 The more the merrier.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not sure which I enjoy more, being one of the four dancing or watching the four dance together synchronized.\u00a0 The person with the top score wins.\u00a0 If you love country music, you&#8217;ll love dancing along to some of your favorite artists.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">CONS<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3044\" title=\"Country Dance for the Wii move\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wellconnectedmom.com\/blog\/p-content\/themes\/atahualpa342\/images\/articles\/2011\/06\/Country-Dance-for-the-Wii-move.jpg?resize=320%2C284&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Country music has never been so fun!\" width=\"320\" height=\"284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wellconnectedmom.com\/blog\/p-content\/themes\/atahualpa342\/images\/articles\/2011\/06\/Country-Dance-for-the-Wii-move.jpg?w=400&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wellconnectedmom.com\/blog\/p-content\/themes\/atahualpa342\/images\/articles\/2011\/06\/Country-Dance-for-the-Wii-move.jpg?resize=300%2C266&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There\u00a0is one big downfall of the game, unfortunately. \u00a0 I thought for sure we&#8217;d learn line dances to Boot Scootin&#8217; Boogie or Achy Breaky Heart.\u00a0 To my great dismay, no line dance steps are taught.\u00a0 There are country style type moves, but no line dancing.\u00a0 I have learned a couple line dances through the years, so I hoped to freshen up my steps.\u00a0 When I told friends about Country Dance, they too assumed that the game would teach you line dancing.\u00a0 This is a big disappointment.<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, the game is a\u00a0lot of fun.\u00a0 Many of the songs are familiar and have great beats.\u00a0 And let me tell you, this is a great way to get a little bit of exercise&#8230;for you and the kids! Country Dance is available from <a title=\"Country Dance with free shipping\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cvent.com\/events\/forward-with-ford-2011\/invitation-d90c00eb1a604a8bb22c9b792aa6317b.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon <\/a>for $37.99 with free super saver shipping.<\/p>\n<p>So, let me hear from you country fans out there, what do you think? \u00a0Is this a game you&#8217;d be interested in?<\/p>\n<p>The Wii version of Country Dance was sent to me in exchange for my honest review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WellConnectedMom.com reviews the latest dance Wii game &#8211; Country Dance.  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