Audition Global

Website: <a href="http://www.highstreet5.com/" target="_blank">SEA Edition</a>

As for Screenshots, I'll get to them soon I promise! D;

Video Preview! (Not done by me) : <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kmiv4XDRpUM" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kmiv4XDRpUM</a>

Paparazzi's very own hitman is back for another review on a dancing game! Another dancing game that people has talked about for the longest. Only this time, people have been talking about this particular game with almost negative insight I remember on these forums. That basically resulted into a locked topic overall, but now I'll review this game as well. The game in which everyone dubbed as "Audition's personal Rip-Off with 'mature' characters! Bleh!" has just recently reached to SEA. That would mean that it's all in english, and regestration is easy as hell, although it has yet to achieve major popularity being that it's barely even in closed beta yet XD.

First off, graphics. The graphics in this game are heavy based so don't expect the same sympathy as you'd expect from Audition. As I stated eariler, everyone is detailed as well as the environments in this game. I suppose this goes with graphics, but the mechanics in this game however is lacking a little bit. It's nothing seriously but unless I get a logical explanation as to why the hell my character is literally in the air as I air flare, the game will sorta lose people in the programming department. It's for a good laugh though. Besides from that, animations in the game are pretty damn good none the less, at least, I thought the animations were good.


Now, the most important feature is Gameplay. One would look at pictures, go on youtube and see stuff about this game, and one would immediatly say that it's an Audition ripoff. Well....... They aren't lying per say. The gameplay style is the same as Audition, although it's a little bit different.

All of you played Audition, it's the EXACT same way to play this game overall except for a few things. One thing that immeidatly stands out is that the gameplay is not room based, however, it has some elements to that of an mmo (Massive Multiplayer Online). You start out in your "home" which is where you set up your options, your moves, your equipments, and you also can play with your doggie! (*insert 'wtf' here*)

Once you exit your house, you are taken to the map, which shows the whole layout of the whole world. You move the mouse over the many different places and click on them to go to the places. What these places are exactly is that the majority are dancing venues. Think of them like Stages in Audition yet at the same time they could be a meeting spot or a chatting spot as well at the same time. Every one of these venues are different in each and every way, mainly from the type of music it plays, to the BPM range of the songs it plays.

Each and, for the most part, every single venue that is accessible this far

• Pirate M. - Ballroom Type: Exotic Dance Style, BPM Range: 85-156</li>
• East Beach - Type: Hip-Hop, BPM Range: 81-105</li>
• Port Dickson - Type: Sexy and Amazing (O.o, BPM Range: 90-139</li>
• Gulf - Type: Mainstream Hip Hop, BPM Range: 95-120</li>
• Aquatic - Type: Mainstream Reggae, BPM Range: 95-120</li>
• Gutter - Type: Top Dancer's Locking, BPM Range: 125-150</li>
• School - Type: Novice Selection, BPM Range: 81-101</li>
• Chinatown - Type: Chinese style theme (Mainly meaning C-Pop?), BPM Range: 81-152</li>
• Scooter - Type: Treasonous RAP Feature (Okay...), BPM Range: 85-132</li>
• Gas Station - Type: Popping and Locking, BPM Range: 100-125</li>
• Space - Type: Sci-Fi Movie Feature (Again, Okay...), BPM Range: 100-152</li>
• Manor - Type: Love Song Feature, BPM Range: 81-128</li>
• Ginza - Type: Korean and Japanese theme (K-pop/J-pop music?), BPM Range: 105-140</li>
• PP? (Can't make it out) - Type: Cute Kid's Theme (Okay...umm...kid songs? *shrugs* Anyone's guess.), BPM Range: 100-155</li>
• Paramount - Type: Novice Reggae, BPM Range: 82-105</li>
• The 5th Avenue - Type: Novice Training Base, BPM Range: 81-95</li>
• English Town - Type: Foreign Language Theme (Heh, suddenly American and European songs are considered foreign to SG people XD), BPM Range: 92-135</li>
• Subway - Type: Top Dancer's Popping, BPM Range (gulp): 126-168</li>
• Hotsand - Type: Popping Theme, BPM Range: 99-125</li>
• Bireme - Type: For Top Dancers, BPM Range (gulpagain): 120-164</li>
• Square - Type: Mainstream Chosen, BPM Range: 100-114</li>

Aside from the many Venues, there are various important shops to go to as well.

• Barber - Self Explanatory, get your hair done here</li>
• Mall - Shop for clothes here (puzzles me as to why the barber couldn't be in the mall and make navigation convenient...) </li>
• Store (Yes it's called Store damn it..) - You buy...umm...Odds and Ends stuff here. Basically stuff to "enhance" your dancing... *shrugs* Bull.</li>
• Dance Hall - This is where it -sorta- attempts to make a "class" system based off of dances for the game. Basically these "classes" are Hip-Hop, Popping, Locking, and Reggae. You go to the studio to learn these moves of each type from each different trainer who represents each move, and even learning a "power move". Power moves I'll explain later.</li>

Once you go into a Venue, you won't actually get to dancing just yet, but you'll be in an area where you roam around and walk around. You can communicate with the people around there, assuming that people are there, or with a click on the top right screen, you can dance. Don't worry if you're dancing in the middle of a song, the game will start you off once the correct beat is in place. Meaning you won't start to dance on the 2nd beat out of the 4th, the game will put you at the very first beat out of the four. If that did not make any sense at all, don't worry about it.

Modes so far as counted for are...

• Singles</li>
• Couples</li>
• Lovers</li>
• Fight</li>

A branch off of these modes, the normal modes to be exact, are..

• Normal mode (think like, 4-key)</li>
• Expert mode (think like, 8-key)</li>
• Freestyle mode (think like well, freestyle mode XDD)</li>

Much like fighting games and their abilities to use a special move if their special bar fills up, this is similar in that aspect. If you constantly chain, or constantly get a good score combo (The number of successive moves in a row) overall, then a bar on the top left will fill. Once that bar fills, above the dance bar there will be a little blue (1). That (1) tells you that you can use your "power move" which is an exaggerated move that nets you extra bonus points if you pull it off correctly. To use this move, once the bar is filled up, press the 1 button (not the numpad 1) instead of space, sort of how you would press 0 instead of space for a team move in Audition's b-boy. Once that happens, the character will execute the first part of the power move. To finish it, you must complete the next command successfully. If you fail that move then the whole power move fails and you're set back a few levels.


One major flaw I have with the game is that it takes FOREVER to start up the game and the constant and random disconnections that take place from time to time... So yeah...

well i gota admit, the game DOES look BETTER than audition, but whether it's better gameplay wise, i'll have to look into that.

and as for the youtube vid...wtf @ hitting it on the 2nd beat? O_o

*shrugs* It might have been lagging for him XD

And, gameplay wise, it could be definatly better but it's a start I suppose xD

new game + SEA = d/c + lag + !#@#!%#@%@ AHHHHH!!! *throws comp* ya lol

well I normally do better on that song BUUUUT Fraps was making me lag >_>

*BTW that's my vid xD*

Just a note to anyone who plays this game: I've started a recording project and eventually (within 2 weeks to a month) my goal is to have all the songs in the game recorded and to have a website for it. So look out for that, they have a lot of good songs in this game xD

*shootself* I forgot to mention that steph, sorry T_T

Killha Wrote:*shootself* I forgot to mention that steph, sorry T_T

Yeah I don't care. Haha.

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I find High Street a harder game to follow when it comes to its interface and playing, I miss so easily on BPMs 110+.

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In every venue there's a DJ, you talk to the DJ and request songs but you have to pay Scores (in game currency) for the songs... ><

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