14 DAY TRIAL // Last month, during the Electronic Entertainment Expo of 2010, Ubisoft announced the acquisition of the Michael Jackson video game license. Recently, more details have been made available by the publisher regarding the dance title. It will be called Michael Jackson: The Experience and will be released sometime this November for the PlayStation 3, the Nintendo Wii, the Xbox 360, the Nintendo DS and the PlayStation Portable.
Eurogamer reports that the home console versions will take advantage of their respective motion controllers to allow players to better simulate Michael Jackson's electrifying performances. Of course, downloadable content is planned for the title, so it shouldn't be expected that all of his songs will ship with the game.
The Xbox 360 version will use Kinect in the same way that another Ubisoft title, Your Shape, employs the technology, that is by projecting an image of the player in game to get rid of the usual avatars. Furthermore, there will be no need for a microphone, as the one incorporated in Kinect will do just fine, letting Michael Jackson fans dance and sing at the same time without the need of other peripherals.
The PlayStation 3 version will be compatible with Move and will also need a microphone for the vocals, according to Eurogamer. On the Wii, it will have the same gameplay mechanics as the popular Just Dance, in which players use the Wii Remote with Wii Motion Plus attached and attempt to mimic the on-screen silhouette dancer. The Nintendo DS release will behave like Elite Beat Agents, apparently, with the player using the stylus to tap circles or follow pathways between various points, keeping the rhythm of the song. These are the possibilities Yves Guillemot, the chief executive officer of Ubisoft, asked us to imagine during the company's spectacular press briefing.