I can't believe they finally decided to make another one!! The newest installment will be titled DJ Max Fever and is aimed for particularly western masses this time. It will have 100 songs, including the ones from DJ Max Portable and DMP 2.
Brobably not many of you have heard of this excellent music game series since the previous games haven't been released outside Korea and Japan (and maybe some other countries around there), so I'll try to explain the gameplay a bit.
The aim of the games is quite simple. There are 4, 5, 6 or 8 rows of notes (depending on the mode) falling from top vertically towards a red line displayed on the botom side of the screen (pretty much in Guitar Hero fashion actually.) Like in most of the music games, you are supposed to press a corresponding button when the notes are overlapping the target line. You'll hear a sound every time you press a button so the aim is pretty much to make the background tracks complete with keysounds, perform badly and the track will sound just as bad as you are playing.
Check out:
- The new trailer here and gameplay footage of a good player playing DMP1 here.
- Game pages for the previous PSP games are here and here.
- Read more about the new game here. (Sadly there was no GS story yet.)
Stuff about DMP:
- With easy 4-button songs the games are very playable by anyone.
- First PSP DJ Max game was released in 2005.
- DJ Max Portable 2 is one of the best selling PSP games in Japan.
- A song named Dreadnought in first DJ Max Portable was removed from the english language "international" version (sold online for importing) because the backround video of the song had a stick figure with Gearge W. Bush's face on it.
- Default 8 button mode key configuration: ◄, ▲, ►, □, ∆, o, L, R (6 notes from left to right + the 2 big red ones). Also analog for the long-shiny-spinny-thingie-notes.
So if you have PSP be sure to check Fever out when it's released.
I have played the previous games since the release of second so I'm definitely glad to have something new to play. Bought my PSP for those games and they are still the only ones I have. Actually I could post some videos later when I have time. The framerate might not be ideal, with the video mode of my still camera I have, but I'll post something if I manage to get decent footage.
