Recommended for ages 9 and up
We Dance is rated at a 7+ by PEGI for fear – we're not really sure what's meant to be scary, unless it's talking about watching your fat aunt Betty shaking her stuff... As for questionable lyrics, there's not anything phenomenally untoward in here, as the soundtrack's a mix of incredibly popular songs of today and the yesteryears - the same songs everyday on the radio or in shops. In all, it's about as offensive as Postman Pat.
With reading restricted to menus, even children who can't really read should be able to play – although they may struggle with what they actually need to do. We Dance has three different difficulty settings – Easy, where you just need to copy the arm movements the game shows you on screen, Medium, where you follow the moves on a Dance Mat and Hard, where you put the arm and feet movements together. And while you might think Easy might be best for the young 'uns, in reality it's rather difficult to follow the gesture icons, as they don't seem to represent what you actually need to do – and Medium and Hard possibly require more co-ordination than the smaller ones would be capable of - especially those of us with little legs, who simply may not be able to do some of the split jumps, which see you pressing the right and left arrows at the same time. Although your kid could still have fun just flailing around to music for a bit anyway, to do it with any level of competency, you're likely looking at around a nine year old.
We Dance lets up to four players play together to compete for the highest score, as well as in three different mini-games - Jump, which has you touching any arrow on the dance mat to leap over a bar which comes towards the screen, Pose, which asks you to run a race, by alternating left and right feet, throwing the poses it asks you to do along the way (if you miss one, you get sent to the back), while Step is basically the same as the standard multiplayer mode. In a brilliant twist, there's no need to worry if you don't have enough Dance Mats to go round, either, as other players can use combinations of GameCube controllers and Wii Remotes with Nunchucks.
