All Star Cheer Squad
Stop. Uh-huh-uh. Stop. Uh-huh-uh. Stop. No, really, stop. Don’t get this game.
Tags: All Star Cheer Squad Categories: Wii Reviews
Posted by Jake McNeill on Jan 26th, 2009
I was willing to give this game the benefit of the doubt. I really was. I mean, especially after Ouendan and Elite Beat Agents, I know that a videogame about cheerleading can actually be good, and the idea seems a perfect fit for the Wii – like a full-body Dance Dance Revolution, I guess (you know, like the Wii version of Dance Dance Revolution). However, anyone who plays this game will quickly come to the same conclusion that I did – it’s garbage.
I’m not going to go into the terrible, simplistic graphics, ugly character designs and bare environments. I’m not going to go into the pathetic soundtrack full of songs no one has ever heard of or the terrible story and horrendous voice acting. I’m not going into these things because, you see, I don’t need to.
I don’t need to go into any of that other stuff because the game fails on a basic gameplay front. Specifically, All Star Cheer Squad is a motion-sensing game that has absolutely terrible motion-sensing. It tasks you with holding the Wii remote and numchuck in various positions (and standing on the Wii Fit board if you have it), but half of the time it doesn’t detect them properly, and the other half it detects it even when you haven’t actually made the proper hand positions. You could shake around the Wii remote and numchuck randomly and do about as well as if you actually, you know, try.
The game’s sole redeeming feature is that, for now, it’s the only one of its kind. Well… except the Wii version of Dance Dance Revolution. So… I guess the kid who’s absolutely obsessed with cheerleading might appreciate how the game theoretically represents her (or his, I guess) “sport” of choice… but only about as well as turning on any cheerleading video and flailing wildly with the Wii remote as it plays.
| What Works | Score |
|---|---|
| + Um... | 1.0 |
| What Doesn't | |
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- The game is barely even playable - Does anything else even matter? |
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| Under the Shrink-wrap | |
| This game is broken. Even the most enthusiastic cheerleaders are better off getting a copy of Bring It On and pretending that the Wii remote is controlling Kirsten Dunst’s movements. | |
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Posted by Jake McNeill on Jan 26th, 2009 and is filed under Wii Reviews. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can post a comment, or trackback from your own site.
