turn the camera back on your dancing game

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2024-10-20 07:00:00

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The month of October arrives and fans of dancing in the middle of the hall already have their annual delivery Just danceUbisoft’s famous dancing game. The edition 2025 expands the possibilities of the saga by adding 40 new songs, presenting new animations and recovering a practice forgotten a few years ago: the video camera that captures all your movements while you dance.

It also arrived this week Just Dance VR: Welcome to Dancitythe virtual reality version of the franchise, available in Meta Quest 2, Meta Quest 3, Meta Quest 3S and Meta Quest Pro. But we tested the new installment Just Dance 2025 Edition and after having “shaked our bones” in several dance battles in the middle of the room, we tell you about the new features offered by this episode of the famous Ubisoft game, where the highlights Ariana Grande songs and the return of the camera.

Just Dance 2025 Edition

Dance in front of the camera again

The Just Dance saga, despite being born with Wii heat sensing technology movements of their Wiimotesit had its heyday a few years later, in those times when cameras were an almost obligatory device in desktop video game consoles. The cameras of PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4 or the cameras of Xbox 360 and, above all Kinectthey transferred all the movements of our body into the game. But then it arrived the decline of cameras and the saga has once again enhanced detection thanks to the accelerometers of the controls (especially on Nintendo platforms) or by adding the possibility of playing with ours smartphones.

But playing games with your smartphone has its drawbacks. The first thing is that it only detects hand movement where you hold it, therefore, can only guess but not decipher what you are doing with the rest of the body. And what you do with all your joints and the movement of your entire body should count in the game. But the main problem is safety, Your beloved and expensive phone can fly away in the middle of a particularly frenetic choreography. Something potentially more dangerous, and uncomfortable, in the hands of a child.

turn the camera back on your dancing game
Just Dance 2025 Edition

Against Just Dance 2025 Edition you can use joycons if you play the Nintendo Switch version, but you have the option to only play with your mobile if you play on
PS5 or Xbox Series (be able to connect up to 6 cell phones at the same time thanks to the new Ubisoft app for Android and iPhone). But now we will have the possibility to play the new songs in two control modes, the classic one which will detect the movements of the device in our right hand or using your cell phone camera.

This new option allows us to do so use the front camera of our smartphonewhich we will have to place in front of us, half a meter from the ground and at a distance of at least two meters from us. The smartphone must be upright, so that you can place it against the wall or the game console itself. An image on the screen tells us the exact distance and will detect our silhouette when we are in the right place.

Once configured, the song will be launched and the camera will detect all the movements of our body incredibly precisely. Of course, this camera mode It is only available in the 40 new songs from Just Dance 2025 and for one player only. If we want to dance with other players, we can only do it with the motion detection mode of all connected mobile phones.

Just Dance 2025 Edition
Just Dance 2025 Edition

Full control and more spectacular animations

Another improvement we need to highlight is that of the mobile app itself: Just Dance 2025 controller. The application has been improved significantly and now works perfectly not only to detect our movements with its accelerometers or with the camera, but also to move around the entire game interface in a really smooth and effective way. No more pressing the console button to navigate through menus and choosing a song and then picking up your phone again to dance. Furthermore, in the middle of a choreography we can Pause the game by swiping across the screen.

Another improvement that will not go unnoticed by fans of the saga is the spectacular nature of the videos and animations some new songs. In addition to the always entertaining dancers offering their best dance moves to inspire our choreographies, spectacularly inserted with motion capture technique, now the graphic effects on the screen and, above all, the new funds on the move some of the scenes are spectacular. And there are some songs with spectacular scenes made with traditional animationlike the song SpongeBob’s Birthday, with SpongeBob and Patrick and which sounds like an episode of the famous animated series.

Just Dance 2025 Edition
Just Dance 2025 Edition

The songs of Just Dance 2025

But the real stars are the 40 songs that come into the game, among which stand out five songs by Ariana Grande, the spectacular new songs by The Just Dance Band, Vogue by Madona, Party In The USA by Miley Cyrus or the fantastic Basket case by Giorno Green.

In addition to the 40 songs from Just Dance 2025, in the same main interface of the game you will also be able to access the incredible music library of the Just Dance+ service (the game includes a one-month subscription to the service) and all the songs from Just Dance 2025. editions of the years previous ones that you had already purchased.

This is the complete list of all Just Dance 2025 songs

  • Edition: yes, and? -Ariana Grande
  • the boy is mine – Ariana Grande
  • we can’t be friends (wait for your love) – Ariana Grande
  • One Last Time – Ariana Grande
  • leave your girlfriend, I’m bored – Ariana Grande
  • Stop this fire – NIUS
  • Control response – Hyper
  • Halloween is here – The Just Dance Band
  • Move your body – The Sunlight Shakers
  • Sunshine – The Just Dance Band
  • Sleigh ride – Mrs. Claus and the elves
  • Basketball Case – Green Day
  • Whenever, wherever – Shakira
  • Unstoppable – Sia
  • Vogue – Madonna
  • Party in the USA – Miley Cyrus
  • Yes! – Usher feat. Lil Jon
  • Poker Face: Lady Gaga
  • My Heart Will Go On – Céline Dion
  • ex – Tate McRae
  • Paint the city – Doja cat red
  • Love Me – Jack Harlow
  • LUNCH – Billie Eilish
  • Payphone – Maroon 5 feat. Wiz Khalifa
  • Express – Sabrina Carpenter
  • In Your Eyes (Remix) – The Weeknd feat. Doja Gatto
  • Poison Pink – BLACKPINK
  • Training season – Dua Lipa
  • The Lion Sleeps Tonight (Wimoweh) – The Tokens
  • Playdate – Melanie Martinez
  • Padam Padam – Kylie Minogue
  • In the shadows – The Rasmus
  • Dubidubi (Chipi Chipi Chapa Chapa) – Christell
  • Sweet melody – Little mix
  • Chattahoochee – Alan Jackson
  • You love who you love – Zara Larsson
  • BANG BANG! (My neurodivergent anthem) – Galantis
  • Calabria 2007 – Enur feat. Natasha
  • Something I Can Feel – Mandy Harvey
  • My people are sorry – Don Elektron and Gotopo
  • SpongeBob’s Birthday – Groove Century

Conclusions of the Just Dance 2025 edition

Nor is it that Stop dancing 2025 it will be a revolution, as the formula continues the legacy of the saga of recent years. But it must be said that the possibility of using a camera again, this time that of our cell phones, is a real advantage for the most purists who want all the movements of their dances to be detected and recorded in their game. The new setlist of songs is varied and very current and the new video animations are worth mentioning. And they included the exceptional Basket case to join in the celebration of the 30th anniversary of the legendary album’s release ‘Dookie’ by Green Day.

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