Bust A Move - Dance Summit 2001
Bust A Move - Dance Summit 2001 is a PlayStation 2 music and rhythm game released in 2000 developed by Metro Corporation. It centers on music, rhythm, and performance, beat recognition, and button or peripheral timing, with controls and information arranged around the DualShock 2 twin analog sticks, directional pad, shoulder and face buttons, with a dedicated peripheral only where explicitly required.
- AI score · out of 10
- 6.4 / 10
About this game
Bust A Move - Dance Summit 2001 is a PlayStation 2 music and rhythm game centered on music, rhythm, and performance, beat recognition, and button or peripheral timing. Songs and difficulty tiers support short repeated practice, with progress divided into stages, tasks, matches, or growth milestones that make immediate goals understandable. Its value depends on whether these rules continue to create judgment and room for mastery rather than on length, sales, or series recognition. Short campaigns are judged by repeat-challenge value, while longer ones are judged by variety, pacing, and recovery after failure. Music, input prompts, and synchronized performance carry the appeal, while 3D scenes, streamed data, cinematics, surround audio, and interlaced television output need to preserve action and state readability together. The genre-specific limitation is that calibration, input latency, peripheral conditions, and dense charts can affect precision. Platform conditions also include DVD loading, the 8MB Memory Card, analog sticks and pressure-sensitive buttons, Multitap, Network Adapter, dedicated peripherals, and retired online services affect present-day use. This description covers only this platform release and does not import features or conveniences from remasters, emulators, or other console editions.
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Colourful team dancing constrained by shallow play and intrusive prompts.
Dance Summit 2001 belongs to the dance and rhythm Bust A Move line, not the similarly named bubble puzzle series. On PS2 it replaces a two-person dance battle with a four-member crew. Direction and button prompts follow the beat, while an open note decides whether the group performs a pair, trio or full-team combination. This is an appealing visual twist, and the direct import review praises the motion capture, brightly coloured stages and eccentric crew identities. The play has less depth once its combination rule becomes familiar, however, and an almost entirely vocal J-pop soundtrack provides less stylistic variety than the earlier games. A command box placed in the centre of the screen obscures much of the dancing, an especially unfortunate interface choice in a performance-focused title. The game can delight fans of its exaggerated Japanese pop aesthetic, but players seeking a deeper rhythm contest should expect a lighter and more repetitive structure.
Strengths
- Group combinations and lively motion-captured dancers.
Weaknesses
- Narrow music range, limited depth and obscured choreography.
Who it is for: Players drawn to Japanese pop dance and eccentric characters.
Play notes: This is the PS2 dance title, not the bubble-puzzle series.
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| Dimension | Review state | Score | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dimension 重复感来得较早。 | Reviewed | 5.8 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension 团队花样新鲜,深度较浅。 | Reviewed | 6.3 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension 视觉比曲目变化更强。 | Reviewed | 7.5 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension 可操作,观赏却被界面妨碍。 | Reviewed | 6.1 / 10 | Not provided |
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Core information
- Developer
- Metro
- Publisher
- Square Enix
- Release date
- 2000
- Platforms
- PlayStation 2
- Content kind
- Game
- Release state
- Released
- Region
- Worldwide
- Official website
- Not provided
- Offline minimum players
- Not provided
- Offline maximum players
- Not provided
- Online minimum players
- Not provided
- Online maximum players
- Not provided
- Categories
- Music & Dance · Primary genre
- Tags
- Pick-up and PlaySolo-friendlyShort Sessions3D GraphicsPlayer versus PlayerRhythm-based PlayMusic PerformanceMain Story Under 10 HoursReplayableFast-paced
- Supported game languages
- Not provided
- Requires base game
- Not provided
- Standalone
- Not provided
- Age ratings
- Not provided
- Play modes
- Not provided
- Perspectives
- Not provided
Release editions
- PlayStation 2Worldwide2000
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