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 In The Groove April 4, 2010
musiccal (Roxbury, NY USA)
Son likes - hours of use and fun. No customer support due to litigation between Roxor and Konami.
NOTE PROGRAM BUG: do not save when songs are listed under "top grade" option. The game will freeze on next reload. Should you set it that way and forget it's an easy fix. Pull out the memory card, load game in normally, then at main menu re-insert memory card and save. Fixes "top grade" bug easily, but doesn't keep any score to that point. Found this fix after buying the game for the THIRD time. Of course the first two disks worked fine with the fix!
 It's not DDR, but better than the nonexistent standalone release from Konami this year. January 7, 2010
Amy Button (Houston, TX United States)
I'm a long-time DDR lover. I was encouraged by all the good reviews of this game. But my first exposure left quite a bit to be desired. First, I managed to repeatably lock up the game in two different ways within 10 minutes of starting. I tried changing some of the game options (controller type, default difficulty, etc.) and saving them, but then the game locked up when trying to go back to the main menu. On trying to restart the system after that, it locked up after the Red Octane splash and wouldn't load the main menu. I eventually got it to work by restarting without the memory card in, playing a song, then going in and changing one option at a time, saving, and going back to the main menu. I left off the default sort setting change, so maybe that was the culprit, but in any case it was deeply disappointing that it was that easy to break the game, and on such a fundamental function.
The difficulty levels are comparable to most of the DDR series (the last couple of DDR games differ from historical difficulties), and I do enjoy the different variety of step patterns from typical DDR games. There doesn't seem to be as much variety in the type of music as most DDR games, but I have only unlocked one additional song thus far. That said, there is at least a pretty long list available at the beginning.
Fitness mode is a real disappointment, though, mostly because their calorie counting is way way off base. I play in fitness mode in DDR fairly regularly, and I believe them when they say I've burned 15 calories for a moderate difficulty song, based on my study of calories burned in all sorts of other activities. In the Groove, however, told me that I'd burned nearly 85 calories for an equivalent level of effort. With that sort of counting, I'd be done with my 500 calorie workout in 15 minutes! I don't think so. I tried to get around it by figuring that it was giving me about 6 times as much credit as it should, so I tried to change my workout to 3000 calories, but no dice - it maxes out at 1000.
ITG beats DDR anytime. February 11, 2008
Aims (USA)
My first ever game was In the Groove for PC/Mac because I didn't have a game console to buy DDR. My spouse gave me a PS2 for Christmas and bought me SuperNova 2. There are several differences between DDR and ITG in general which make me favor ITG:
1. Songs on ITG are longer than DDR. I like the longer songs for endurance reasons. I agree with the previous reviewer about songs that you have never heard of. In fact most of the songs are produced by one man (Kyle Ward) who goes under several pseudonyms. Inspector K, KaW, and, Banzai are just a few of them.
2. I can not stand the dancing people graphics and the razzing announcer when you screw up on DDR. Maybe because I am not used to it, but it gets on my nerves.
3. I like the arrow layouts on ITG better because they:
A. Don't blink so they are easier to focus on.
B. The colors on ITG clearly state the beat. Red is a quarter note, Blue is an 8th note, green is a 16th note, so it extremely easy to follow the arrow patterns.
I sold my copy of SuperNova 2 and bought a copy of ITG PS2 and I can't wait to get it. There are some different songs on it as compared to the PC/MAC version. Since Roxor was sued by Konami for pretty much stealing all their ideas, who knows if additional versions of ITG will ever come out. I hope Konami can make it happen, because I will be first in line to buy!
Awesome April 8, 2007
W. Bradford (Raleigh, NC USA)
It took a little bit of getting used to, but this game really is the next level of DDR. It's expert difficulty is ridiculous, but well put together. They took konami's ideas in DDR, combined them with Stepmania and ended up with a really great game. Good playlist, too.
Excellent for cardio workouts March 24, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Probably my favorite feature of this game, which I haven't seen addressed in most of the reviews, is that you can set it to Fitness mode and go on for long intervals non-stop (well, except for a few seconds pause between songs, which is useful for catching your breath and/or re-hydrating). If your goal is time (or you can choose calories), you can go up to 60 minutes, so it's a fun way to get a good, sustained cardio workout. Particularly in the challenging levels, the time can go by pretty quickly, and you end up having burned some serious calories. I have yet to figure out how to do this in DDR, if it's even possible. And as many have mentioned, it's kind of refreshing to play along to songs that aren't commonly-known; many are pretty catchy and fun to listen to.
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