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Get your body moving. No, really. Give it a shot. Just Dance 2

You get the impression that Ubisoft is wary about what the critics might think of Just Dance It shouldn't be. Despite our surly demeanours and propensity to moan, games reviewers like to have fun as much as everyone else. True, we do it secretly and with the aid of unbridled alcoholic lubrication, but that's only as a precaution in case anyone from the outside ever catches us indulging in the secret pleasures of illicit warbling and frantic, musical gesticulation.

You get the impression that Ubisoft is wary about what the critics might think of Just Dance It shouldn't be. Despite our surly demeanours and propensity to moan, games reviewers like to have fun as much as everyone else. True, we do it secretly and with the aid of unbridled alcoholic lubrication, but that's only as a precaution in case anyone from the outside ever catches us indulging in the secret pleasures of illicit warbling and frantic, musical gesticulation.

What does Just Dance 2 involve then? The clue is in the title: just dance. You hold the Wii Remote in your hand and imitate the perfectly-captured dancers on-screen to one of over 40 songs.

All the songs are, quite sensibly, open from the start – frankly, if you need incentivised unlockables to motivate you to dance, this isn't the game for you. Just Dance 2's appeal lies in the breadth of its songs and the routines that accompany them, running the full gamut from out-and-out silly to cool-looking, racing up and down the difficulty ladder as they go. If you scoff at the idea of a challenging dance routine, I defy you to make it through Body Movin' without breaking a serious sweat.

There are songs for everyone here, from 10-year-old girls (Girlfriend) to much older girls who are still 10 on the inside (Toxic, When I Grow Up) to people with taste (Take Me Out, Move Your Feet, A-Punk) to people born before 1970 (I Feel Good, Viva Las Vegas). Just Dance 2 is also far from the shovelware the series has been unfairly labelled as - you need only look at the amount of effort and individuality put into every single dance routine to be proven wrong. Walk Like An Egyptian and Sympathy for the Devil couldn't be more different.

Many dance games recycle the same old moves for every song, but not this. The dancers on-screen are even decked out in appropriate gear: swaying wigs, robot suits, flares, canes and even bobble hats.

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