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All Star Cheer Squad

All Star Cheer Squad

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From: THQ
Category: Video Games

List Price: $39.99
Buy New: $36.50
You Save: $3.49 (9%)



New (29) Used (1) from $33.30

Avg. Customer Rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars 3 reviews
Sales Rank: 205

Platform: Nintendo Wii
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 5 - 20 years
Operating System: Nintendo Wii
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0

MPN: 30155
Model: 30155
UPC: 785138301556
EAN: 0785138301556
ASIN: B00166R2RQ

Release Date: October 27, 2008  (New: Last 30 Days)
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

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

Accessories:

  • Play Poms

Similar Items:

  • We Cheer
  • Play Poms
  • Jillian Michaels Fitness Ultimatum 2009
  • Active Life Outdoor Challenge

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.
'All Star Cheer Squad' for Wii game logo
Go ahead, Bring It!
Fox mascot in 'All Star Cheer Squad' for Wii
Choose to be a girl, boy or neither.
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Customizing uniforms in 'All Star Cheer Squad' for Wii
The right look for your cheer.
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Cheer squad dressed in red in 'All Star Cheer Squad' for Wii
Use the Wii-mote for upper body.
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Cheer squad in black following prompts on the Wii Balance Board in 'All Star Cheer Squad' for Wii
And Balance Board for the lower.
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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:

3 out of 5 stars You need a wireless nunchuck!!!?   November 8, 2008
 5 out of 6 found this review helpful

This game is not fun without a wireless nunchuck. It's not easy or fun to do the moves if you can't extend your arms to look like the character on the screen. The nunchuck wire slaps you in the face and occasionally gets stuck behind your head. If you had a cheerleader ponytail it would be mangled. I wish I would have bought the Wee cheer instead.


2 out of 5 stars Give me a C!   November 4, 2008
 5 out of 6 found this review helpful

This game is clearly designed for younger girls, so maybe it's my own fault for wanting to relive my high school cheerleader days. I expected cheesy dialogue, that was a given, but the gameplay with the Wii Fit Board is horrid.

In career mode you design your cheerleader, then head off to try out to join the Fox Squad. You learn moves in practices before heading into tryouts. This is all reasonable. What is unreasonable is that as you leave each practice (you have to complete 4 prior to the first tryout), you have to get off the board for it to recalibrate before moving into the next practice.

This feature causes game play to be really slow. Otherwise, there's a lot of potential and I enjoy the video replay option for tryouts, but I'm overall underwhelmed with this game.



2 out of 5 stars So far this game is just plain tedious   November 4, 2008
 22 out of 23 found this review helpful

I want to start by saying that I've only played this game for a few hours, but so far I'm not impressed. I bought the game because I am having so much fun with the other cheer game, We Cheer and thought this might be even better since it uses the balance board. So far I'm disappointed.

The biggest annoyance so far is that the screens take so long to load from one practice or routine to another. After waiting 20 to 25 seconds for the first part to load you get three screens acknowledging that you're using a balance board, warning you not to jump on it and some other warning and then you have to step off while it calibrates and then back on and wait again. This takes another 40 to 45 seconds. And you have to do this between each practice, tryout or routine screen. It doesn't remember the balance board like the Wii Fit does where you only need to do it one time.

If during a practice or routine you want to go back and do it over, you have to go through listening to the cheerleaders explanations and go through all the screens, clicking the A button instead of just going to the routine or practice that you want to do over. There doesn't seem to be any way to click through the first part. So you end up standing around waiting much more than actually moving and playing the game.

The main reason I bought this game was for exercise, but there is a lot less moving around than with the other We Cheer game. Most of the time you're just moving the Wiimote and nunchuck in patterns which don't always register correctly. Sometimes wrong moves register as correct and sometimes vice verse. The use of the balance board doesn't make much sense so far because since you can't jump on it or hop from one foot to the other you're basically putting pressure on one foot or the other, not really doing the moves on the screen. And having to wait for the balance board to calibrate every 3 or 4 minutes when you go to another routine makes it hardly worth the time waiting for that to register.

One other problem is that if you were to actually mimic the arm movements the cord on the nunchuck isn't long enough to put your arms out to the sides unless you're a very small person, so you would need a wireless nunchuck. A better solution would have been to use 2 Wiimotes like the We Cheer game. So far, there is much less movement in this game.

The music is ok, but a lot of the same thing. The graphics are ok, you can see them in the description here. You can unlock some different outfits and routines. It follows a year in the life of a cheerleader and you can make up your own routines at some point in the game. I'm going to spend some more time and give the game a chance but I have to tell you that in the first hours I've felt mostly annoyance at the slow loading times and impatience, waiting for the game to get better. So far it isn't fun and finding the motivation to go back to it feels like a chore.

I hope to see some other reviews here, telling me I'm doing something wrong and there's a way to skip through all the delays. I really wanted to like this game.


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