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Dance Central Spotlight

The newest game in the award-winning Dance Central series focuses on the core dance experience. With more routines per song and a massive library of additional songs for purchase, Dance Central Spotlight lets…

77 2 September 2014

Dance Central Spotlight is a music developed by Harmonix Music Systems, released 2 September 2014 on Xbox One.

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What Dance Central Spotlight is

Dance Central Spotlight is a music game developed by Harmonix Music Systems and released in 2014. It was published by Microsoft Studios. It is available on Xbox One only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Dance Central Spotlight is a 2014 rhythm game developed by Harmonix and published by Microsoft Studios for the Xbox One Kinect. It is the sequel to Dance Central 3 (2012) and the fourth installment in the Dance Central series. The game provides a stripped-down experience in comparison to previous Dance Central titles, maintaining the core gameplay of the series, but with a focus on providing more routines per-song, the regular release of recent songs as downloadable content, and leverage of improvements to the motion detection capabilities of the Kinect for Xbox One. It was released on September 2, 2014.
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How it plays

Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

How it was received

Dance Central Spotlight holds a critic score of 77 out of 100. That places it above 58% of the 483 rated music games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2014 averaged 69, so it scored 8 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Dance Central Spotlight launched on 2 September 2014, within three weeks of Metro 2033 Redux, Metro: Last Light Redux, Bayonetta 2 and Destiny. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It arrived 1 year into the Xbox One's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Metro 2033 Redux, Metro: Last Light Redux, Bayonetta 2, Destiny.

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When did Dance Central Spotlight come out?
Dance Central Spotlight was released on 2 September 2014 for Xbox One.

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