Fantastic sequel with something for everybody. The multiplayer mode goes beyond duets, offering more variety than ever.
It also added a rewards feature, where you earn medals, as well as new dances and options, by performing well. Complete an entire song without getting any X's, you get a medal. Get Yeah!'s on all of the gold moves, another medal. It really gives you a sense of accomplishment.
Although, even better than that sense of accomplishment are the unlockable Dance Mash-Ups! This is a cool feature where you play songs from the current game with a new dancer, along with various dance segments from Just Dance 1 & 2 all mixed up in it, creating this awesome hybrid of new and old. For instance, they've got the devil girl from Sympathy for the Devil, and the Cleopatra girl from Walk Like an Egyptian, among others, dancing to Baby One More Time. Not only does it add even more variety, it's also a special treat for us who played the previous games. Seeing those familiar dancers come on, I was like 'hell yeah, I kick butt at this one!'.
Stand-out solo tracks: Pump It - Black Eyed Peas, She's Got Me Dancing - Tommy Sparks, What You Waiting For - Gwen Stefani
The Best Duets: Promiscuous - Nelly Furtado ft. Timbaland, Da Funk - Daft Punk, Something Stupid - Nicole Kidman & Robbie Williams (just because its a good one to make your non-dancing boyfriend do with you).
Funnest Dances with 4 or more: Spectronizer - Sentai Express (SO FUN, you're like Power Rangers dancing around!), I Was Made For Loving You - KISS (this one is AWESOME! One player is the lead singer, two play guitar, one is the drummer, with each having their own little solo performances). Baby One More Time - The Girly Team (really cute feminine routine, teen girls will love this one, as well as guys who wanna put on a funny show for their girlfriends).
Best Mash-Up: Promiscuous Girl. I love the mix of hip hop routines from games past. Its fun and not too hard.
The Bad News: There's always a few clunkers in these kinds of games, and this one is no different. The dance track to Lenny Kravits's Are You Gonna Go My Way is very uninspired and painfully repetitive. I'm sure its supposed to be a simple easy one for the least coordinated of players, but it could've been done better. I also was disappointed in the Party Rock Anthem track. The guy dancer is rather oddly effeminate, the routine is overly simple and not very attractive. Such a cool song deserves better.
And why do they keep getting cover songs, instead of the real thing? Its a problem that goes back to Just Dance 1. There's like 4 or 5 covers in this one, not as many as the others, but Ubisoft can afford to pay for the originals. I wonder what the deal is?
Over all, I love this game. It's creative, it's fun, and totally stays true to the spirit of dance, and the spirit of making a fool of yourself to amuse your friends.
NOTE: Be wary of totally inaccurate and extremely lazy reviews on this site by its 'staff' reviewers. Their review for Just Dance 3 claims there are no rewards or unlockable in the game. You can't play this game for more than a minute and not know that. At the end of every dance, you see all the medals you've earned and will earn, as it calculates your points and tells you how close you are to the next reward. To not notice that would be like playing Super Mario 3 and then ranting about how there should be little mushroom houses scattered around to supply us with items. Its just not possible for a so-called experienced gamer to be that brainlessly unobservant. Thus, his review must have been copied from someone else's uninformed review, or his manner of reviewing the game consisted of watching those short little gameplay videos on You Tube. I've noticed this lousy kind of review on three other major games this year, and I must say that my confidence in this site's integrity has been shattered.