Audience Rating: Universal, suitable for all
Binding: Video Game
Brand: Sega
EAN: 5060138438477
Label: Sega
Manufacturer: Sega
Platform: Nintendo Wii
Publisher: Sega
Release Date: September 26, 2008
Studio: Sega

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Editorial Review:

Amazon.co.uk:
You’ve played Guitar Hero and Rock Band. Now try the game that made them all possible--Samba de Amigo. Reinvented for the Wii, Samba has you use the Wii remote and Nunchuk, or two remotes if you have them, to shake your virtual maracas along to a collection of Latin and pop music classics.

You will believe a hedgehog can dance

In Hustle Mode you have to show off your dance as well as maracas moves

Two players can play at two different difficultly levels if you want

Your Miis are just some of the characters that watch your routine

The game works a bit differently than other music games. You play by shaking the maracas at one of three heights, using one or both of your hands. It may sound simple, but in the new Hustle Mode you’re also called upon to perform special dance moves and poses at the same time.



There are plenty of other new game modes as well, including a full career mode. There are multiplayer options, such as one where you get to drop bombs on your opponent and another that tries to measure your romantic compatibility by how well you perform in a duet.

Key Features

• Golden oldies: Features all the stages and characters from the original arcade and Dreamcast games.
• The gang’s all here: Enjoy cameos from a range of Sega characters and games, including Sonic the Hedgehog and Ulala from Space Channel 5.
• Samba de Mii: Have your Miis join the party and dance away in the background--the better you do the more animated they become.
• Mambo on demand: If you get tired of the 44 different songs on the game’s disc, there will be a regular series of extra downloadble tracks--a first for the Wii.
• Maracas hero: For the authentic maracas-shaking experience, the deluxe version of Samba de Amigo comes with special maraca-shaped attachments for your remotes.

About the developer: Gearbox Software
Gearbox came to fame with expansions and ports of big-name first-person shooters such as Half-Life,, Counter-Strike, and Halo. They then created the Brothers in Arms series and are working on Aliens: Colonial Marines and Borderlands.




Rating: - Excellent game with poor instructions
Samba De Amigo is, undoubtedly, one of the best motion games I've played on the Wii so far. The basic idea is, as in many games like this, moving and shaking the Wii remote(s) in a specific way to "play" along with the music. Great music and fun visuals make it a really enjoyable experience. However, if you only read the instructions and the in-game tutorials, the controls are, indeed, very frustrating. It only gives you a basic idea, and the controls in many ways are not intuitive.

The ... Read More

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Rating: - Flawed.
I played this game at a friends recently. I own the Dreamcast version and in comparison the Wii version misses the mark considerably. It is fun and at the price I guess it's probably just about worth it. The Dreamcast version is *seriously* fun, with the Wii version you do not feel part of the game, the controls seem very very slightly out of sync with the graphics and this is were it fails. Having seen what SDA can be this simply should be better. Saying that It's still fun. I also tried the Wii Fit ... Read More

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Rating: - Severely let down by faulty controls
This is -or rather SHOULD be - one of the best music and rhythm games available. When it was released in 2000 on the Sega Dreamcast, it came bundled with a couple of maracas and was phenomenally expensive (about £100 if memory serves, which was nearly as dear as the console itself). However, it was loved by all who played it, and players marvelled at how the console `knew' where the maracas were. One of the last hurrahs for Sega's dying DC console, RIP.

That was then, and this is now. ... Read More

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Rating: - Shake it up!
I thought this game might be one of those games you complete in a day and then store away, but I was playing it for hours. To play the main game you can use either two controllers or a nun-chuck and controller and the main game consists of 4 different levels and within each level there are 6 different types of music to shake to and 4 songs for each type of music. So the game is actually quite big with many well known dance tunes to move to. There is a tutorial for the game which teaches you about the circle ... Read More

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Rating: - Samba Shaking Magic
This game is brilliant! Reminds me of being on holiday in Spain, just the tonic for those cold winter nights. Previous reviews have mention problems with calibration. I've found that you have to keep your elbows at your sides and let your wrists do the movement instead of your arms. This made the game a lot more accurate for me. One word to sum up...... Magnifico!

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