Dollar Value

Each player is also given a private home where they can chat with friends and put on new cloths that they purchased at the mall. 5Street has an extensive clothing selection which includes dozens of hats, shirts, suits, pants, shoes, and other accessories. The fact that almost all of the clothing require ‘points' which must be purchased with real cash is however quite frustrating. The currency earned by actually dancing, called score, is virtually useless, moreso because every player start with 1,000,000 of it. Another consequence of the current version is the limited number of songs but that shouldn't be too difficult to expand as the game approaches official release.

Copy Cat!

All the social aspects and maps to explore are important fluff but the main draw of 5Street is the dancing. In this respect 5Street does not deviate much from the norm. There are several dance modes (Battle, Single, Team, Lover) but alls hare the same game play. Players must hit the correct arrow keys in time, then hit the space bar when the slider is over the glowing part of the bar. 5Street does an awful job at explaining these instructions but it shouldn't take long to figure them out. As you level, new special moves will become available which allow you to earn many more points but are more difficult to preform (more arrow keys must be punched in.) Using these special combos requires vitality (HP) which is gained by either resting or preforming regular dance moves. This is almost the exact same siystem as found in AUdition Online.

Each to their own

Your enjoyment of 5Street will inevitably be linked to your appetite for rhythmic games. I find games like this useful when introducing PC gaming to non-gamers but they don't have much lasting appeal. As a social MMO, 5Street doesn't have much solo content and its boring to dance with strangers so playing with friends is the best way to go. Quests and daily Events run by the GMs add some excitement but again it comes down to whether or not you enjoy arrow key timing games. With that said, 5Street is the best game of its genre, and certainly worth a try.

Review Mister Funny
November 2, 2009