The Black Eyed Peas Experience

The Black Eyed Peas Experience on Wii wraps a Just Dance-style motion routine around one group’s catalogue. Players follow pictograms while holding a Wii Remote, and the direct Wii reviewer found recognition mostly accurate, the menus unusually smooth and joining a dance as simple as picking up another controller. Thirty included songs span four albums. Band silhouettes, hip-hop backgrounds and occasional music-video excerpts give fans familiar staging. The limitation is how little the package does beyond its music: most four-player songs provide only one or two distinct routines, so dancers often mirror one another. There is no dedicated workout mode or substantial artist tutorial and behind-the-scenes material to distinguish this as an experience in its own right. Some songs also retain explicit language and sexual references, an important consideration for family play. This judgment concerns the reviewed Wii disc and its Remote controls, not the Xbox 360 Kinect edition. It describes historical included content without assuming that a new copy is readily available today.

Who it is for: Black Eyed Peas fans seeking a straightforward Wii dance party.

Play notes: Explicit lyrics may affect family suitability; this is the Wii edition only.