In forcing myself to play through some of High School Musical 2: Work This Out (and it was a chore), I have but one question for Disney Interactive Studios: why did you bother?
This was definitely one of the worst Nintendo DS games I have played for a very long time and seems nothing more than a cash-in on the popularity of the movies.
True, I am not an HSM fan or the target demographic, but my 14-year-old daughter who has seen the HSM movies and saw the ice skating show when it toured here recently, had one word to say about the game after playing it: "Lame". I couldn't agree with her more.
A collection of mini-games, HSM2: Work This Out lets you play as Troy, Gabriella, Sharpay, Ryan, Chad and Taylor as they work at the Lava Springs holiday resort during their holidays.
Games include collecting wayward golf balls, closing and opening umbrellas and dancing all to the beat of HSM songs.
If the repetitive game play and blocky graphics doesn't get you first, then the repeated looping of HSM songs playing in the background surely will.
For fans of the series, this could have been the one redeeming feature of this game, but initially you've only got access to two tracks on your jukebox. You unlock more as you progress through the game unlocking trophies and collecting spinning records.
So for the first wee while you just have two songs repeating continuously and you can't turn it off at all. It gets annoying quickly.
To be honest, if a teenage girl who is in the target demographic doesn't like this game, then it's on a hiding to nothing. I can't recommend HSM 2: Work This Out, not even to die-hard HSM fans.
From : http://www.stuff.co.nz/
