Boogie oogie

The other night I picked up Boogie for the Wii. It's a rhythm game that combines dancing using the remote and singing with a USB microphone. Although the word "combines" may not be the right word - there's no singing and dancing at the same time.

I was mildly surprised that the game is kinda fun. There's not a lot to it, you move the remote left,right,up and down to the music - different combos are available to "mix it up". While this made it easy to pick up and play, it's also it's biggest flaw, there's no challenge after the first 30 seconds.

The singing is pretty typical of karaoke games, you have to match the pitch of the song - which isn't as hard as I thought. Even my caterwauling managed some decent scores. You do actually have to stick pretty much to the words too, just grunting in tune doesn't work as well. Another nice thing is you can turn down the volume of your own voice and mix in the actual singer's voice so that people aren't as tortured.

It's basically an OK game that would be more fun in a party setting. Look out game night...