System Requirements Windows:98/ME/2000/XP
Mac OS X 500MHz P3 CPU; G3 400MHz Mac
130MB HDD space
128MB RAM
8X CD-ROM DX 9 compatible sound and video
USB ports and a USB compatible dance pad
Thanks to Digital Praise for giving us this game to review!
Dance Praise is required to play the expansion! Have you played your Dance Praise songs to death and you’re looking for some fresh music? Do you like Christian Rock and Pop songs? If you answered yes to any of those questions you may want to check out the third expansion pack for Dance Praise. This expansion packs adds thirty-five new songs to your collection. You need to have Dance Praise installed in order to play these songs. The each expansion pack sells for $24.95 at Covenant Games
What songs are included?
Audio Adrenaline- Dirty Bethany Dillon- All I Need Grits- We Don’t Play Jars of Clay- Revolution Jeff Deyo- More Love More Power Jeremy Camp- Lay Down My Pride Take You Back Breathe John Reuben- Nuisance Joy Williams- By Surprise We Krystal Meyers- My Savior The Way To Begin Kutless- Sea of FaceStrong TowerRun Newsboys- Devotion Nicole Nordeman- Holy Paul Colman Trio- Run Paul Wright- You’re Beautiful Rebecca St. James- I Thank You Reliant K- Be My Escape Who I Am Hates Who I’ve Been Sanctus Real- Closer Things Like You Seven Places- Everything Skillet- A Little More Stacie Orrico- Tight Hesitation Tait- Lose This Life Third Day- Sing A Song Come On Back To Me Tree 63- No Words King ZOEgirl- You Get Me
Installation/Integration
Installation is really easy and once it’s installed you’ll see the songs the next time you launch Dance Praise. You can sort the songs by play list to see the color coded songs you added. It doesn’t get much easier than that. If you want to uninstall you have to use the uninstaller from the start menu since it’s not available in the control panel.
Usability
The expansion does not add any new features that I noticed. The arrows still go down instead of up like most DDR games. The accuracy of the arrows is questionable at times but for the most part, decent. The grading is pretty lenient compared to other DDR games out there. Hard mode is pretty easy until you get to level 4 & 5 songs, but even those are not challenging enough. DDR veterans won’t find this game very challenging at all.
Appropriateness
The song selection is very good and you can see the lyrics scrolling by as you dance. All the songs have good lyrics with a positive message.
Final Thoughts
This collection has music from many well-known artists and the song selection seems to be pretty good. The songs are easy to listen to, nothing too heavy or annoying. Many of these songs can be heard on Christian music radio stations. If you liked the music that came with the original Dance Praise then you will probably enjoy this collection of music. I liked most of the songs personally and I recommend this expansion to anyone. With an asking price of $24.95 this is a fair price for adding this much to the Dance Praise game play.
Final Ratings
Appropriateness 50/50 Game Play 18/20 Graphics 6/10 Sound 10/10 Controls/Interface 3/5 Stability 4/5