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Spice World is a music video game starring English pop girl group the Spice Girls as animated characters. It was developed by Sony Computer Entertainment Europe for the PlayStation. It was released on June 16, 1998 in Europe and July 31, 1998 in North America.
Why It Won't Spice Up Your Life
- The game itself feels more like a music mixer than an actual game, since all you can do is choose a Spice Girls song (limited to only five), mix it, practice dance moves, and then make a dance routine.
- The game's graphics are absolutely horrendous, even by PS1 standards. The Spice Girls themselves are really hideous to look at, and they look like the Bratz dolls (ironically, this game came out 3 years before the Bratz dolls came out), the worst being Ginger Spice (Geri H.) and Scary Spice (Mel B.).
- Bad voice acting (including voices provided by the Spice Girls themselves) and laughable dialogue.
- The gameplay is rather shallow at best since it's a more watered down Dance Dance Revolution with poor button inputs and an absurdly hard difficulty curve that ruins the game.
- Each song has only nine samples, and the samples don't even cover the entire songs.
- The song selection is rather limited, as it only has the group's most popular songs and not their other songs at the time, as there are only a total of five of them with all of them playing out the same way as each other, which makes the game feel stale and repetitive at best.
- The main menu looks bland and unimpressive and is poorly made, as you have to wait for a second to highlight the option. To make matters worse, not only that, but you can only move forward on the menu, you can't move backwards.
- The game manages to mess up some of the simplest aspects:
- The mixing room is badly made; you have to jump around the room to pick which part of the song you want to mix. Not only that, but you have to do it to 18 verses, more or lower can't be applied.
- The dance practice room is a chore, as you have to repeat the button input shown on screen to learn dance moves. It's offbeat and poorly made, only to be represented by an 70s disco stereotype, is also pretty slow and easy, and you can get through it without pressing anything.
- The next room, you have to make up dance moves you just learned. To make matters worse, you have to do it for all girls; thankfully, you can just copy them without having to create each seperate one, but still much like before you can do nothing and easily get away with it.
- The TV studio, all you do is just watch the girls dance to the remix you did by using all the dance moves you did, the only thing you have to do is change the camera angles that's it. After that, the game ends and there's nothing.
- To make matters worse, each section takes its own seperate Memory Card Data.
The Only Redeeming Quality
- The game features some of the interviews with the Spice Girls, which can be great for people who are interested about the group.
Reception
The game received generally negative critical reviews. On gamerankings, it holds a 40%.
PSM gave the game 2 out of 5 stars.
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Trivia
- Geri Halliwell (Ginger Spice) is in the game, despite the fact she had already left the group. She wouldn’t return until 2007 in conjunction with the Return of The Spice Girls tour which lasted from 2007 to 2008.
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