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| From: UBI Soft
Category: Video Games
List Price: $29.99
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Platform: Nintendo Wii
Genre: dancing_games
ESRB: Everyone 10+
Media: Video Game
Edition: Standard
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
Operating System: Nintendo Wii
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.5 x 1.1
MPN: 17590
Model: 17590
UPC: 008888175902
EAN: 0008888195900
Publication Date: August 2010
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | The game supports two players so you and a friend can dance the calories away together | | • | Strengthen your muscles with fun mini-games such as rodeo bull riding, karate, rowing, kangaroo boxing, sword fighting and more | | • | Build your own circuit program or let the game create one for you. Circuit programs are continuous dancing and mini-game sessions lasting up to 30 minutes. Experience the fun of working out as you dance off extra pounds | | • | Your personal trainer teaches you dance moves, motivates you and increases the intensity of your workout based on your performance | | • | All of your exercise history, including play time, calories burned, and BMI (determined by standing on the Wii Balance Board) is stored in the game so you can easily track your progress |
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Product Description
Gold's Gym Dance Workout Wii
Amazon.com Product Description
Gold's Gym Dance Workout is a unique dance/workout game for Wii that challenges and engages players like no game before it. The first dance game specifically dedicated to fitness and weight loss, it utilizes a blend of workout and in-game instructor customization, comically engaging mini-games, Wii Balance Board integration, a sizable song list to workout to and in-game progress tracking that together allows players to dance their way to fitness without them even knowing it. Additional features include 2-player game support, a complementary 7-day Gold's Gym membership and more. Dance Your Way to Fitness
Developed in collaboration with fitness and dance experts, Gold’s Gym Dance Workout is the first dance game specifically dedicated to fitness and weight loss. Players will have so much fun dancing you won’t even notice how much you’re sweating. You'll dance to popular songs, learn new choreography, and play mini-games that will whip you into shape in no time. It's the most fun way to workout, both by yourself and with a friend. The first dance game specifically dedicated to fitness and weight loss.
View larger. | Over 30 Songs Including: | | - "Just Dance"
- "Forever"
- "I Will Survive"
- "Good Vibrations"
- "Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)"
- "I'm Too Sexy"
- "Material Girl"
| | - "Stronger"
- "Jai Ho"
- "Smooth"
- "Salome"
- "Oye Como Va"
- "Cosmic Girl"
- "Heart of Glass"
| Key Game Features - Workout to Latin dance (Salsa, Samba, Cumbia, Reggaeton and Meringue) and boxing-inspired dance routines
- Additional mini-games targeting specific muscle groups include: rodeo bull riding, karate, rowing, kangaroo boxing, sword fighting and more (many of these games are Wii Balance Board–compatible)
- As you exercise, your Gold’s Gym trainer teaches you the moves and gives you feedback
- Customization options, including 30-minute circuit program workouts of your creation and character and trainer customization
- The game supports two players so you can even dance the calories away with a friend
- In-game bonus: Gold’s Gym VIP 7-day membership pass included with your game
- Track your exercise history including play time, calories burned, and BMI
- Keep motivated as you dance to loads of heart-pumping dance hits
| Additional Screenshots:
Dance & boxing inspired.
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In-game progress tracking.
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Incentive building mini-games.
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2-player game support.
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| Customer Reviews:
 One of the best for exercising with the Wii September 3, 2010
ila (USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I really enjoyed this game.
Likes:
Includes a calendar (similar to Wii Fit)so activity can be tracked
Tutorial to explain the dance moves
Good verbal motivation
Most dances are easy to learn and if a move is to hard I just modify it a little bit
The ability to use two remotes is my favorite thing about it. That is an awesome feature!!! ¢¾
Gives info on calories
Lots of fun and a great workout
Allows time for a check of heart rate
Dislikes:
Some non-dancing games are really odd like the attacking bull. I can't figure that one out. Need to read the instructions I guess.
The Mii character is useless and poorly executed.
I can't figure out how to go back. Once a routine is started there seems to be no way to repeat something.
This is the best executed Wii game I've used so far. Well done, Gold's Gym!
I love this game September 2, 2010
plnpsu2001
I got this game about 2 weeks ago and am totally addicted to it. I am overweight and out of shape and really need motivation to get into and keep a workout routine. Using this game, I actually want to do the exercise and even do extra. I would highly recommend to anyone to give it a try.
gold's gym has a winner September 2, 2010
locoa43
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
i just got this game yesterday and im in love with the game. it keeps your body moving and working im surprised how hard i worked on it im a fan of cardio boxing in which they have also samba reggaeton all that and they have tutorial so you can learn the steps and the mini game will also kill you. it a must have on the wii
Excellent collection of dancing, boxing, and mini-games August 30, 2010
Nutwiisystem.Com (New York, NY USA)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
When Gold's Gym Cardio Workout first came out a year and a half ago, it pushed the bar forward and helped prove that there was a market for Wii Fitness Games. So the question is, does its sequel do the same? I'm happy to report the answer is yes.
Gold Gym Dance Workout consists of three main types of exercises: a pure "dance workout", a "boxing workout", and "mini-games".
In the "dance workout", you perform fast-moving choreographed dance steps using your arms and feet. It's not exactly like "Just Dance" in that the choreography doesn't really contain any "signature moves" for the song. Rather, the dance is made up of a series of basic latin dance steps (i.e., merengue, samba, salsa, reggaeton, and cumbia). You first go through a series of tutorials to learn the steps, and then you put them together through beginner, intermediate, and advanced stages of increasing difficulty and speed. Just as you'd do in a dance class at the gym, you follow the lead of an on-screen workout instructor shouting out steps to you to the beat.
In the "boxing workout", the game has come a long way since its predecessor. Again following an on-screen instructor, you upper-cut, jab, punch, and hook to the beat of music. And thankfully, Ubisoft decided to license a whole slew of popular songs, so you're not stuck to boxing to "Eye of the Tiger" over and over and over. The motion controls are remarkably accurate in detecting specific boxing moves, and the workouts were fast-moving and fun.
I admit that I loved the "mini games". Unlike other fitness games where minigames are an afterthought, Ubisoft seems to have put a lot of thought into these, and I love the touches of humor in the games. There are a variety of new and original mini-games, you can dodge charging bulls (ducking from side to side while holding your Wii remotes), try to balance yourself on a bucking bull (on the balance board), canoeing (using a combination of your Wii motes as a double-plated paddle while sitting on the balance board) and running (basically making rapid punching movements, made more interesting when you get chased by the occasional lion!). There are also a few games clearly borrowed from Wii Fit and Wii Sports resort (chopping things with a samauri sword, boxing a kangaroo, and karate-chopping certain items).
You can either jump into the various workouts immediately, or have your virtual trainer prepare a weekly workout routine for you. You can also choose two-player mode, which lets you exercise along with a friend (there will be two trainers on the screen, and when each person follows their trainer, not only can they compete to see who scores the highest, but to the casual bystander it looks like they're doing a cool latin dance together).
One thing I was impressed with was the accuracy of its controls, which is head and shoulders above previous Wii exercise games. It allows for the use of two Wii remotes. That Ubisoft eschews the use of the nunchuk is a good sign that they've taken accuracy in motion controls more seriously than they have in the past.
The one big thing I wasn't crazy about at first was how very difficult it was to follow and learn the dance steps. The first few times you play the dance workout games, even at the tutorial level it's very easy to get very overwhelmed. You have to basically follow the on-screen trainer and mirror the moves she's making, but she's moving so fast that it's incredibly difficult to follow, especially trying to do it in a mirror image. They provide a series of video and audio cues to help you, but it's still terribly difficult to follow her feet and to match them to yours.
The good news is, for each dance they offer a "practice" mode which breaks down the dance into different sections, lets you review each section, with three different camera angles to view the instruction, and lets you view the whole thing in slow motion. I would definitely suggest playing the entirely in "practice mode" until you get the arm and leg movements down and memorized, and then proceed to the workout. This may take days or even weeks for each song, so if you don't have the time or inclination to do this, you might be disappointed. On the other hand, once you commit the moves to memory, they're yours to do over and over again. And it probably goes without saying that you need a LOT of room.
And so while the game isn't for everyone, I think it's a great new Wii fitness title after a very long string of disappointing ones. Once again, Ubisoft has set the bar, let's hope upcoming fitness titles like EA Sports Active 2, Zumba Fitness, and the Dance Dance Revolution reboot continue to move the bar forward.
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