Just Dance: Best Of

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Just Dance: Best Of / Greatest Hits
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PAL box art (Wii)
Developer(s) Ubisoft Paris (Wii)
Ubisoft Montreal (Xbox 360)
Publisher(s) Ubisoft
Series Just Dance
Platform(s) Wii, Xbox 360
ReleaseWii
  • AU: March 29, 2012
  • EU: March 30, 2012
  • NA: June 26, 2012
Xbox 360
  • AU: June 21, 2012
  • EU: June 22, 2012
  • NA: June 26, 2012
Genre(s) Music, rhythm
Mode(s) Single player, Multiplayer

Just Dance: Best Of (known as Just Dance: Greatest Hits for the Xbox 360 and NTSC Wii) is a music rhythm game released on the Wii and Xbox 360. It is part of the Just Dance video game series published by Ubisoft originally on the Wii. The game includes songs from Just Dance , Just Dance 2 , Just Dance: Summer Party , and Just Dance 3 , with the latter game used as its basis. The game was released for PAL Wii as Just Dance: Best Of with 25 songs on March 29, 2012 in Australia and March 30, 2012 in Europe, [1] and for Xbox 360 and NTSC Wii as Just Dance: Greatest Hits with 35 songs on June 21, 2012 in Australia, June 22, 2012 in Europe and June 26, 2012 in North America. [2]

Contents

Gameplay

Gameplay of the track "Girlfriend" in Just Dance: Greatest Hits Just Dance Greatest Hits gameplay.jpg
Gameplay of the track "Girlfriend" in Just Dance: Greatest Hits

Like the previous games in the Just Dance main series, up to four players can play to mirror on-screen dance choreography from many different songs, as they are judged on their ability to follow a dance routine to a chosen song. Returning features in the game include Non-Stop Shuffle, Speed Shuffle, Simon Says, Shout Out, Just Sweat and Just Create (Xbox 360 only).

Track listing

Both games consist of some tracks from Just Dance , most tracks from Just Dance 2 , and 3 tracks from Just Dance 3 .

SongArtistYearOriginal gameBest OfGreatest Hits
"Acceptable in the 80s" Calvin Harris 2007 Just Dance Check-green.svgCheck-green.svg
"Airplanes" B.o.B featuring Hayley Williams 2010 Just Dance 3 Check-green.svgCheck-green.svg
"Alright" Supergrass 1995 Just Dance 2 Check-green.svgCheck-green.svg
"Baby Don't Stop Now"Anja2011Just Dance 3Check-green.svgCheck-green.svg
"Baby Girl" [a] Reggaeton2009Just Dance 2Check-green.svg [a]
"Barbie Girl"Countdown Dee's Hit Explosion (as made famous by Aqua)1997Just Dance 2Check-green.svgCheck-green.svg
"Body Movin' (Fatboy Slim Remix)" Beastie Boys 1998Just Dance 2Dark Red x.svgCheck-green.svg
"Cosmic Girl" Jamiroquai 1996Just Dance 2Check-green.svgDark Red x.svg
"Crazy in Love"Studio Musicians (as made famous by Beyoncé featuring Jay Z)2003Just Dance 2Dark Red x.svgCheck-green.svg
"Dagomba"Sorcerer2010Just Dance 2Check-green.svgCheck-green.svg
"Dare" Gorillaz 2005Just DanceDark Red x.svgCheck-green.svg
"Down by the Riverside"The Reverend Horatio Duncan and Amos Sweets1927Just Dance 2Check-green.svgDark Red x.svg
"Eye of the Tiger" Survivor 1982Just DanceDark Red x.svgCheck-green.svg
"Fame" Irene Cara (credited as In The Style of Irene Cara)1980Just DanceCheck-green.svgCheck-green.svg
"Firework" Katy Perry 2010Just Dance 2Check-green.svgCheck-green.svg
"Futebol Crazy"The World Cup Girls2009Just Dance 2Check-green.svgDark Red x.svg
"Girlfriend" Avril Lavigne 2007Just Dance 2Dark Red x.svgCheck-green.svg
"Hey Ya!" Outkast 2003Just Dance 2Check-green.svgCheck-green.svg
"Hot 'n Cold (Chick Version)" [b] Katy Perry2008Just DanceDark Red x.svgCheck-green.svg
"I Like to Move It (Radio Mix)"Groove Century (credited as Reel 2 Real featuring The Mad Stuntman)1993Just DanceCheck-green.svgCheck-green.svg
"It's Raining Men" The Weather Girls 1982Just Dance 2Dark Red x.svgCheck-green.svg
"Jai Ho! (You Are My Destiny)" A. R. Rahman & The Pussycat Dolls featuring Nicole Scherzinger 2009Just Dance 2Check-green.svgCheck-green.svg
"Jin-Go-Lo-Ba" Fatboy Slim 2004Just DanceDark Red x.svgCheck-green.svg
"Jump"Studio Allstars (as made famous by Kris Kross)1992Just Dance 2Dark Red x.svgCheck-green.svg
"Jump in the Line (Shake, Senora)"The Sunlight Shakers (as made famous by Harry Belafonte)1961Just Dance 2Dark Red x.svgCheck-green.svg
"Katti Kalandal" [a] Bollywood1980Just Dance 2Check-green.svg [a]
"Kung Fu Fighting (Dave Ruffy / Mark Wallis Remix)" Carl Douglas 1974Just Dance 2Check-green.svgCheck-green.svg
"Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit of Monika)" Lou Bega (credited as The Lemon Cubes)1999Just Dance 2Check-green.svgDark Red x.svg
"Move Your Feet" Junior Senior 2003Just Dance 2Check-green.svgDark Red x.svg
"Mugsy Baloney"Charleston1924Just Dance 2Check-green.svgDark Red x.svg
"Only Girl (In the World)" Rihanna 2010Just Dance 3Check-green.svgCheck-green.svg
"Pon de Replay"Rihanna2005Just Dance 2Dark Red x.svgCheck-green.svg
"Proud Mary" Ike and Tina Turner 1971Just Dance 2Dark Red x.svgCheck-green.svg
"Rasputin" Boney M. 1978Just Dance 2Check-green.svgCheck-green.svg
"Ring My Bell" Anita Ward 1979Just DanceDark Red x.svgCheck-green.svg
"Satisfaction (Isak Original Extended)" Benny Benassi 2003Just Dance 2Check-green.svgCheck-green.svg
"Step by Step" New Kids on the Block 1990Just DanceDark Red x.svgCheck-green.svg
"The Power" Snap! 1990Just Dance 2Dark Red x.svgCheck-green.svg
"Tik Tok" Ke$ha 2009Just Dance 2Dark Red x.svgCheck-green.svg
"Toxic" The Hit Crew (as made famous by Britney Spears)2004Just Dance 2Check-green.svgCheck-green.svg
"U Can't Touch This"Groove Century (as made famous by MC Hammer)1990Just DanceCheck-green.svgCheck-green.svg
"Viva Las Vegas" Elvis Presley 1964Just Dance 2Dark Red x.svgCheck-green.svg
"Who Let the Dogs Out?"The Sunlight Shakers (as made famous by Baha Men) [c] 2000Just DanceDark Red x.svgCheck-green.svg
Number of songs Included (Wii)2537
Number of songs Included (Xbox 360)N/A35

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 The song has to be unlocked with a secret code on the D-pad, which only works on the NTSC Wii version. It is not available on the Xbox 360 version of the game.
  2. Credited in the Wii version as "Hot 'n Cold" and the Xbox 360 version as "Hot 'n Cold (Rock Version)"
  3. The original version was used in the Xbox 360 version.

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