You dance by pressing on four directional buttons on your keyboard in time with onscreen cues. Four columns of directional arrows that scroll to the top of the screen represent the cues. Once a moving arrow reaches the stationary row of arrows at the top of the screen, you press on the corresponding arrow on the pad. The number of points you score is affected by how good your timing is and how long you can go without missing a step. If you miss too many steps, your game ends. The learning curve can be fairly long, and a training mode is included.
Of course, all of this dancing would be pointless if there weren't some good music to dance to, and XDC has this area more than covered. The bulk of the game's music is fluff-pop, techno-pop, though it touches on a number of different varieties of dance music, including Latin, house, jungle, breakbeat, electronica, techno, and reggae. The soundtrack contains dozens different songs right off the bat, so it pretty much guarantees that you'll be tired from dancing before you're tired of the music.
XDC will likely make you be so focused on forthcoming arrows that you won't be paying much attention to the polygonal dancers and psychedelic images floating through the background--though this makes for decent eye candy for spectators.

Features:

DMC, the hippest dance game ever created turns in a tour-do force experience bursting with infectious tunes and back cracking moves.

• 2 player mode for head to head competitive play
• Hundreds of new and authentic motion-captured DANCE MOVES.
• Dozens of unique characters
• Dozens of new songs, remixed from every major dance genre
• Hip hop, techno, jungle, rave, pop, house, break beat and more

• Dozens of dance venues with interactive stage backgrounds
• Innovative scoring system for greatly enhanced replay value
• First US online multiplay PC dance game ever.

 

Available:

1 or 2 Players
Format: PC and Consoles to be determined
ESRB rating: E