Another Hot Dance Party in the Works
August 18, 2009 by Joel Tan
Filed under Hot Dance Party, MMO Dance, MMORPG News
Perfect World Co. Ltd., the China-based online games developer that gave us the hit massively multiplayer online games Perfect World, Zhu Xian (Jade Dynasty), and Pocketpet Journey West (Ether Saga), is launching Hot Dance Party II, a new casual online game, this fall.
Well, actually, Hot Dance Party II isn’t all that new. It is being touted as a sequel to Perfect World’s in-house 3D casual game Hot Dance Party. Now the question beckons, “Why launch a sequel if the original can be updated?”
The query is akin to dishing out the immortal line, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” What’s going on in the heads of executives at Perfect World Co. Ltd.?
More than a year ago, I criticized Perfect World for developing Hot Dance Party, asking the question, “Why another online dance game?” There were at the time at least three dance-themed casual online games in the market and making another one to compete in that niche just didn’t make any sense.
Now, Perfect World is preparing the sequel, and the question shifts to the company’s motives for ditching the original. Is Hot Dance Party not that hot anymore? As far as I know, the game has not even reached the other side of the world, where free-to-play online games are slowly being embraced.
Although Hot Dance Party II promises to give us online games fanatics more than 10 new dancing modes, several new avatars and character customization options, I still don’t see why it can’t be done in an update to the original—that is, unless Hot Dance Party II is using an entirely different engine.
Hot Dance Party video after the jump.
