At its core, Just Dance 4 looks and plays like its predecessors. The neon-coloured, cartoon visual style returns, setting the tone for a game geared towards fun. Brightly dressed dancers carry out the outrageously enjoyable dance routines against backdrops recreating nightclubs, living rooms and even wrestling rings. It's an extremely vibrant visual style that's absolutely jam-packed with personality.
Users are encouraged to mimic the dance moves by following a series of on-screen cues below the avatars. The scoring system is extremely generous, ensuring that players with even less rhythm than a John Sergeant / Ann Widdecombe pairing can prosper.
Unlike the majority of Kinect games, Just Dance 4 doesn't punish users for the camera's shortcomings, it simply brushes them aside. This might not sit well with hardcore gamers, but the result is a title that can be picked up and enjoyed by everyone.
Although not an entirely new feature, one of the game's more enjoyable scenarios is the much-improved Battle Mode, which sees two players dance it out to a mash-up of two different songs. Taking place over five rounds, it's structured like a traditional fighting game, complete with health bars and bragging rights. It's as much fun as it sounds, largely due to some eclectic song pairings.
'Just Sweat', the game's resident fitness mode, also returns. Again, while not wildly different from its previous outing, it makes one or two welcome improvements. The addition of a calorie counter and intensity tracker, for example, lends more credibility to the mode as a genuine fitness aid. It also features some of the more entertaining fitness routines we've sampled, although not all users will be comfortable jumping around like a cheerleader for 20 minutes.
Dance Quests are another new feature, challenging players with completing specific objectives within each song. Challenges include maxing out the star count, nailing all gold moves, or receiving a certain level of feedback when a particular lyric is sung. Dance Quest won't revolutionise the way you play, but it provides a nice incentive to return to songs.
The Xbox 360 exclusive 'Just Dance TV', meanwhile, captures those embarrassing dances forever, allowing users to share them online. Once a song is completed, the game mixes together a batch of highlights, the result of which is a genuinely amusing music video. It's been done before, but provides a fitting social element to what is clearly a group game.
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