The Hip Hop Dance Experience


The Hip Hop Dance Experience is a dance game for the Wii and Xbox 360 published by Ubisoft. It is a continuation of The Experience, a spin-off series of the larger Just Dance series.

Gameplay

The game includes features such as adjustable difficulty levels, player avatars with over 100 accessories, as well as many game modes, including Dance Party, Dance Battle, Dance Marathon, Power-Skooling, and other single-player or multiplayer challenges. Dance Party gives the player an option of forty songs to choose from, Dance Battle has two or more players perform dance moves to boost their own scores while attempting to take away points from others, Dance Marathon is an endless stream of songs that tests the player's stamina, and Power-Skooling allows the player to perfect iconic dance moves step by step. The choreographers in this game are Laurieann Gibson, Dave Scott and Kid David.

Songs

The setlist consists of 40 songs. Note that the following are from the Xbox 360 version.
SongArtistYear
"1 Thing"Amerie2005
"1, 2 Step"Ciara feat. Missy Elliott2005
"Airplanes"B.o.B feat. Hayley Williams2010
"Bad Girls"M.I.A.2012
"Blow the Whistle"Too Short2006
"B.O.B"Outkast2000
"Creep"TLC1994
"Danger (Been So Long)"Mystikal feat. Nivea2000
"Day 'n' Nite"Kid Cudi2008
"Down"Jay Sean feat. Lil Wayne2009
"Drop It Like It's Hot"Snoop Dogg feat. Pharrell Williams2004
"Funkdafied"Da Brat1994
"Got Your Money"Ol' Dirty Bastard feat. Kelis1999
"Hard"Rihanna feat. Jeezy2009
"Hip Hop Hooray"Naughty by Nature1993
"Hot in Herre"Nelly2002
"If It Isn't Love"New Edition1988
"Ignition (Remix)"R. Kelly2003
"International Love"Pitbull feat. Chris Brown2011
"It Takes Two"Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock1988
"It's Tricky"Run-DMC1987
"Lean Back"Terror Squad feat. Fat Joe and Remy Ma2004
"Lollipop"Lil Wayne feat. Static Major2008
"Look at Me Now"Chris Brown feat. Busta Rhymes and Lil Wayne2011
"Me and U"Cassie2006
"Moment 4 Life"Nicki Minaj feat. Drake2010
"Over"Drake2010
"Rapper's Delight"1979
"Replay"Iyaz2009
"Return of the Mack"Mark Morrison1996
"Run It!"Chris Brown feat. Juelz Santana2005
"Say Aah"Trey Songz feat. Fabolous2010
"Sexy and I Know It"LMFAO2011
"She Wants to Move"N.E.R.D.2004
"So Good"B.o.B2012
"Tipsy"J-Kwon2003
"Vivrant Thing"Q-Tip1999
"Wild Ones"Flo Rida feat. Sia2011
"Work Hard, Play Hard"Wiz Khalifa2012
"You're a Jerk"New Boyz2009

Reception

Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the game a score of 72 out of 100, based on critics 5, indicating "Mixed or Average" reception.