Dance with 'Disney Grooves' on the Wii

— -- Who doesn't want to dance with Mickey Mouse? You and your kids can with the new DanceDanceRevolution: Disney Grooves video game on the Wii.

From Konami, the creator of the original DanceDanceRevolution or DDR style of game play, DanceDanceRevolution: Disney Grooves is a good entry point for kids or kids at heart who have never tried DDR.

To those new to the genre, DDR is a musical rhythm game that is played by moving your feet on a special dance mat controller. The goal is to step on arrows on the mat that correspond to arrows shown on the screen. In Disney Grooves, in addition to matching arrows with your feet, you can also wave the Wii remote and the nunchuk controller at certain times as indicated by on-screen prompts. Disney Grooves comes bundled with two dance mats, and can handle up to four players at a time, making it a great social game. With Disney Grooves, Konami has crafted a DDR game that will appeal to kids. It features Disney characters that kids love including Mickey, Minnie, Goofy, Donald, Daisy and Pluto. Kids can choose to have Mickey or one of his friends as their on-screen avatar. They can also use their own Mii (avatars created on the Wii system) and then dress them up in Disney classic costumes, including Ariel from The Little Mermaid or Grumpy from Snow White. There are 60 different outfits, many of which are unlocked by playing the game.

Unlike other versions of DDR, where the song lyrics are edgy, this version features 40 classic Disney songs that are all squeaky clean. Kids can groove to It's a Small World,Circle of Life,Zip a Dee Doo Dah, and A Spoonful of Sugar to name a few.

The game can be played in three modes: Groove, FreePlay and Workout. In the Groove mode, you take requests from a make-believe audience. A request may be to dance through two songs at a certain venue. By completing requests, you unlock new venues, characters and costumes. In FreePlay mode, you can explore songs on your own or choose to have a dance-off with Mickey or other cartoon favorites. You can also explore this mode with others in a cooperative or competitive manner. In the Workout mode, you can set goals to reach, such as the number of calories burned.