All Star Cheer Squad

All Star Cheer Squad
From THQ

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Product Description

All Star Cheer Squad is an aspirational game that captures the fun and action from the Cheer world. Players immerse themselves into the world of competitive cheerleading through creativity, customization, style and teamwork. Players create their own avatar, learn cheer/dance moves, compete against individual team members and ultimately compete against other squads

Product Details

* Amazon Sales Rank: #1905 in Video Games
* Brand: THQ
* Model: 30155
* Released on: 2008-10-27
* ESRB Rating: Everyone
* Platform: Nintendo Wii
* Dimensions: 2.00 pounds

Features

* Use the Wii Fit Board to balance and perform stunts
* Use the Wii remote and nunchuck to perform dozens of real-world cheer/dance moves
* Compete in squad and one-on-one cheer-offs
* Customize the look of your team including body, facial features, hair and outfits
* Learn new moves and choreograph your own cheer routines to music

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Product Description
In All Star Cheer Squad, players will follow a year in the life of a cheerleader as you learn new cheers, participate in practices and create your own routines in the hopes of making the squad and eventually becoming its captain. High-energy gameplay includes squad competitions and one-on-one cheer-offs, where players will use the Wii Remote and Nunchuk to perform dozens of real-world cheer and dance moves.

In order to ensure that All Star Cheer Squad has the latest cheer action and top routines, world-renowned cheerleading choreographer Tony G, best known for his work in the "Bring It On" movies, has signed on as chief consultant for the game.

All Star Cheer Squad will also incorporate use of the Wii Balance Board to get the player's entire body involved in the game and add to the ultimate cheerleading experience. Players will be able to customize the look of their cheerleader and squad including body, facial features, hair and outfits.

Show the Squad What you Are Made Of
The backstory that plays out in All Star Cheer revolves around player's attempts to make the 'Fox Squad' cheer roster. Although a top squad, they have suffered a tough setback when one of their top captains has been sidelined by injury.

The show must go on though. Players goal in singleplayer modes is first to make the squad, later progressing up its ranks and finally putting what you've learned to good use as a choreographer.

Key Game Features:

* 1-4 player support.
* Use the Wii remote and nun-chuck to perform dozens of real-world cheer/dance moves.
* Full body cheer experience using the Wii Balance Board (optional).
* Compete and cooperate in squad and one-on-one cheer-offs.
* Customize the look of your team including facial features, hair, style & color, make-up and outfits.
* Learn new moves and choreograph your own cheer routines to music.
* Grow your all-star squad to be the best and lead them to the championship as Cheer Captain.

Varied Gameplay
Gameplay within All Star Cheer Squad consists of players mimicking the stream of on-screen prompts, representing individual moves within a cheer routine, and accumulating points according to their accuracy. Action is registered through the use of various controllers. Ideally the game simulates a the range of body motion--both upper and lower--that a cheerleader utilizes.

With this in mind, to take advantage of the game's full potential players should use both the combination of a Wii Remote with attached Nunchuck controller for upper body movement, and a Wii Balance Board for lower body movement. But this configuration is not mandatory for play. A Wii Remote with Nunchuck will suffice. Play options consist of:

Singleplayer - Singleplayer action in All Star Cheer Squad comes in two varieties: Quick play and Career Mode. Career Mode on the other hand contains the lion's share of the singleplayer experience as well as the storyline of the game.

As players begin this mode they choose the gender and basic customization options of their character like initial attire, facial features, etc. From there they are introduced to the current members of Fox Squad. Considered as an unproven rookie the players must try out and make the squad to gain respect and a spot on the team.

If successful more advanced routines and moves as well as unique custom items will be unlocked, which will earn you credibility and provide the opportunity to move up in the hierarchy of the squad, eventually all the way to captain.

Quickplay is a standard tutorial mode where players can practice basic and not so basic moves that will come in handy regardless of the player's experience and comfort level with the Wii Remote, Nunchuck and the Wii Balance Board.

Multiplayer - All Star Cheer Squad supports 2-4 players either cooperative or competitive multiplayer. Team up and work together as a unit and the goal is to get the highest overall routine score as a squad by following the on-screen prompts as you face down a bevy of AI supplied competition.

As squads progress through the mode, moves routines and their synchronization with music become more and more difficult, complex and frantic. Players who instead choose to go the route of competitive multiplayer face off against friends in a versus mode where not only do they need to follow the in-game prompts, to hope to win in a tight battle they must shoot for perfect execution of moves.

String together three perfect moves and your team receives a 'call out." These can be used to add points to your score, trip up the opposing cheer line when their turn comes, protect your own line in this case. Whichever team has the highest score at the end of the game wins.

Any way you choose to play it All Star Cheer Squad is an aspirational game that captures the fun and action of the real life Cheer world. Immerse yourself in the creativity, customization, style and teamwork All Star Cheer Squad. And don't forget to Bring it on!

Customer Reviews

Wii Cheer Rocks
My daughter LOVES to cheer with this Wii game. She says that it is challenging and fun!

Not worth the money!
I bought this game with such high hopes...and have had them crushed. The game itself is pretty fun, but the loading times and short duration of play between the loading times just kills it! Seriously when I play this game I stand in the middle of my living room watching the load screen for so long that I just end up sitting down from boredom.

Then when the balance board is plugged in there are addition wait times while there are repeated warnings not to jump on the board, not to fall off the board, calibrating the board, now stand on the board....Finally you get about 45 seconds of doing a routine before it ends,

then you go through a 45-60 second load time before you get back to the main menu. The game has potential, but is killed by the lack of flow between sequences, long load times, and unnecessary repeated reminders. I hardly play this game b/c it is so frustrating!

Needs a bit of perfecting...
I bought this game for my 11 yr. old all-star cheerleader daughter. The game is fun but certainly not perfectly engineered. She becomes frustrated because the wire between the controllers is too short to actually do the moves exactly as shown.

We thought is was going to be more like her cheer practices however it is important to remember that this is just a video game and really no way comparable to actual cheer. She has enjoyed playing with it though I don't believe I will get my money's worth out of it. She actually gets much more of a work-out with the wii-fit game.

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