The Ultimate Party Game! (Samba de Amigo (DC))

Member Name: mr_nice_man

Product:	Samba de Amigo (DC)
Date:	15/02/02 (214 review reads)
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Advantages: Great Party Game, Good Fun, Good Music

Disadvantages: Tiring, Repetetive For Some

Samba De Amigo is one of those classical games that will always be remembered on the Dreamcast. The basic aim of the game is to use the two maracas that you buy the game with to dance to a song of your choice. Of course the songs are limited but they are all great songs to dance away to

The game is a great one to play when you have a mate around. This is for the one reason and that is that you look like a complete idiot dancing away on your mat to this song with your maracas. It?s a great laugh and its one you only get with this game.

It is more of a party game than a single player game. You only have a limited amount of a thing that you can do on this game and that is sadly where this game suffers. You have the old classic arcade mode where you can plough through 3 levels of songs each more difficult than the other. The cool thing about this is that you select the song that you dance too and not just a song that your Dreamcast decides. The more times you complete the arcade mode the more songs you unlock so the game does have some sort of reward.

This game in the way of graphics is actually really good. In the background there is a lot of dancing going on and it?s all animated very well. The better you are doing on the maracas the better the dancing is. To be honest though you don?t really notice the graphics all that much as you?re main attention throughout the whole game is focused on 6 panels, two at the top, two in the middle and two at the bottom. Little balls come out of the centre and they go to different panels, you must shake the maracas when the ball hit?s the panel and you then score points and work up combos without making mistakes.

The game comes in a huge box with two maracas and a dance mat. Although this is a very expensive kit you will find it very hard to get hold of for under £200 as only a small number was made in the UK and it was not a major hit because of its cost. You of course get the game with this pack
age and the overall presentation looks good.

Music wise this game has one of the best selections of songs to have. The songs appear to have been well selected by Sega and they fit into the game really well. Some of the songs in the game are:

. Macarena
. Samba De Janeiro
. La Bamba
. Take on me - Reel Big Fish
. Tub thumping

As I said they are good songs to dance to with the Maracas and are ones you like to here again and again. The music can get a bit annoying sometimes especially when you can?t do the stage you just get frustrated and give up. But overall the music is really good and there is enough variety for most people to like and it suit?s the games style really well.

This game will absolutely tire you out and it makes you sweat more than you when your at the gym. It puts a lot of strain on your arms and for some people this could be a bad thing. But overall you loose a bit of weight playing this game which is nice added bonus.

Apart from just having to dance to the same old tunes there is a mini games type mode, which are very hard to do so you need a lot of practice to beat them. These are challenges and are very hard to do. Two player mode is one of the best things about this game if you have 2 pairs of maracas. You see both players dancing to the same song but the dance patterns are opposite so it is very funny to watch.

Online features were another nice surprise for this game. You have the ability to download songs to your VMU of the website to dance to, there is only a limited choice but this is a nice extra that more Dreamcast games should have had. Some of the songs I can remember are the Sonic Adventure theme music and some other sonic stuff. These are nice additions and it is good too have a couple more extra songs that you can dance too as you may get bored of having to dance to La Bamba.

This game is a party game and it is such good fun when you have your mates around a
nd you want a bit of a laugh. This in my opinion is what it is best for; it is not one of those games you would really want to play on you own, as you would look like a complete fool. You will still enjoy it but you will just look like an idiot and feel stupid.

The game is so hard to get hold of but if you see it second hand with a pair of maracas, you will love it and it is a great laugh.

The best party game ever, the funniest game made, a must for Dreamcast lovers

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