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Cross between Just Dance, Your Shape.

Ubisoft's Michael Jackson game will be known as Michael Jackson The Experience and will be released in November.

The console games - PS3, Wii, Xbox 360 - will use their respective motion sensing technology (Move, Wii MotionPlus, Kinect) to put you in Michael Jackson's slick loafers as he moonwalks, spins, kicks and shrieks through some of his most famous performances.

The Wii game will be more or less the same as Ubisoft's very popular Just Dance.

The Kinect version has technology similar to that of Ubisoft's Your Shape and projects a 3D image of the player on screen to replace the usual avatars. Kinect's microphone means singing and dancing can be done simultaneously and hands-free.

Microphones can be used with the PS3 version in a separate singing mode.

The DS and PSP games, meanwhile, will use tap-on rhythm gameplay. Oli Welsh, who was at a London event for the game last night, said the DS game looked very similar to Ouendan - tapping numbered circles in sequence and drawing between them.

Ubisoft announced the Michael Jackson game at E3; publisher boss Yves Guillemot asked the audience to imagine the possibilities.

1/3 Michael Jackson: the man in the telly.

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Deckard1 #1 2 years ago

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***insert milo joke here***
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CaptainQuint #2 2 years ago

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What have done to the games industry? Look what we've done. What about all the playability that you pledge your only son?
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Mkwone #3 2 years ago

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The first licensed rapeplay game for the west?
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YoshiMcTaggis #4 2 years ago

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How disappointing
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Razz #5 2 years ago

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Doesn't all these shit MJ cash ins just make you wanna scream?
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pantherboy #6 2 years ago

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I doubt this will be suitable for children
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andywilkie35 #7 2 years ago

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I think that all this waggle will be the death of real gaming, but I'm slightly tempted by Kinect and this.

Not enough to buy it mind
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StooMonster #8 2 years ago

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Why don't they go the whole hog and launch Glitter Band?
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Kazzahdrane #9 2 years ago

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Just Dance with Your reShapen face.
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schnide #10 2 years ago

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I hope they have Michael as an avatar to teach you how to play it, especially for the Move and Wii versions.

"Hi kids! I'm Michael Jackson. Who wants to play? Now, take your wand, and wave it at me. That's it. I like that."
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lockload #11 2 years ago

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I dongt see how this will work on wii or ps3, they only know where the arm is.. what about the moon walk

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lordofthedunce #12 2 years ago

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I dongt see how this will work on wii or ps3, they only know where the arm is.. what about the moon walk

lol
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Cronan #13 2 years ago

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Do you get to take a kid back to your place, show him your zoo, let him have a ride on the roller-coaster, get your chef to cook him anything he wants, then back inside to watch some funnies, then you feed him some pills and wine and suck his d*ck? Allegedly.
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nuanimal #14 2 years ago

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Michael Jackson would be spinning in his grave. Then busting in to a moonwalk followed, by a screaming crotch grab.

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AngelAngelus #15 2 years ago

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@ StooMonster - Bit harsh on the Glitter Band as they are actually pretty well respected as a band without Gary's involvement... if you said Gary then that's a different story.....
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Ryze #16 2 years ago

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Wot, no support for the PSeye's mic?
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Acrid #17 2 years ago

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Absolute fucking bilge. Do not want
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