How do you turn your fingers into legs? Play breakdancing game B-Boy Beats and you’ll find out.
The latest title from Tag Games, developed in partnership with Mobile Pie, promises to be a game with attitude for the iPhone and iPod Touch.
According to the pre-release hype B-Boy Beats “aims to reinvent the stale rhythm action genre made popular on iPhone by titles such as Tap Tap and Rock Band”.
Not only that, it also aims to “make a mockery of other weak-wristed iPhone music games”.
Bold claims indeed, but given the quality of Tag Games’ previous release, Car Jack Street, these are boasts which might well prove to be justified when the game is released in the App Store on February 14.
B-Boy Beats is a hip-hop rhythm game set in 1980s New York City.
You (the player) take on the role of lead member of a new breakdance crew.
You’ll need to battle against other crews to gain respect across the city.
Gameplay sounds like a hybrid of Rock Band and skateboarding game Touchgrind.
Your fingers will become virtual legs as you hit the dancefloor and attempt to perform the game’s 10 increasingly challenging moves.
It sounds like it’s not just a case of tapping the screen in time to the music, like in most other music games, but rather using your digits as legs in a variety of manoeuvres.
B-Boy Beats also features seven crews to compete against, 17 hip-hop tracks to perform to, two difficulty settings and OpenFeint social network integration.
We’ll be back with a proper look at the game after it’s released to see how ‘dope’ it actually is.
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