Just Dance 2 Due October 14th. Keep an Eye on Your Drink, Keys, and Phone.

I’ll just warn you now, I’m going to try and Photoshop that lady into anything even remotely related to dancing.

The sequel to the Nintendo Wii’s critically lambasted license to print money, Just Dance (gonna be okay, da da doo doo) 2 has been confirmed for an October 14th release date.

While the first Just Dance (spin that record babe, da da doo doo) may have been hammered by reviewers with more precision and coordination than a ballroom dancing routine, it still went on to sell two million copies world wide, with a million of those copies being sold just in the UK. Now, grant it, the UK is the same place that encouraged musical compositions by Crazy Frog and Bob the Builder and also gave us, in order of awfulness, mad cow, Pete Doherty, salad cream, and my ex girlfriend. Regardless, one million copies of anything is a pretty big seller- especially when you consider Just Dance (gonna be okay, da-da-dance) didn’t benefit from hardly any positive word of mouth in the video game journalism world.

While (dance, dance, j-j-)Just Dance 2 would seem poised to repeat the same feat regardless of what anybody says about it in the press, it may face some incredibly stiff competition. Harmonix’s Dance Central for the Kinect is due out less than a month after Just Dance (gonna be okay, da da doo doo) 2 and, if I were to hazard a guess, will probably cause some trouble for the title. As much as I love kicking Microsoft and the Kinect while they are temporarily down, the one thing from the Kinect I saw at E3 that made me excited was Dance Central. With the Kinect’s focus on controlerless body movement, it would seem that it may have the edge in offering an accurate dancing simulator instead of a whole lot of ‘waggle.’ Although considering you would actually be dancing, calling it a simulator may be a bit off. One would think that Just Dance (spin that record babe, da da doo doo) 2 would have improved upon some of the control issues in the first title though, but it will have quite a bit to live up to in order to repeat it’s success. Guess we will find out when it ‘drops’ on October 14th.

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