See the Xbox Kinect Game "Dance Central" in Action [VIDEO]

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Dance Central uses the Xbox 360's upcoming Kinect camera system to track your entire body while you perform dance moves to popular songs, then scores you on how well you performed the routines.

After watching a group of professional dancers totally nail it, I tried it out to Lady Gaga's "Poker Face," as depicted in the second half of this video. As you can tell from the video, not everyone looks awesome playing, but it is a lot of fun.

The game screen shows a dancer whose movements you have to match — different from some other Kinect games in which the avatar on the screen matches your own movements. A slider on the right side of the screen warns you what moves are coming up so you know what to be ready for.

The camera reads your whole body's movements to check if you match your cues, if you're on rhythm, and if you're doing the moves correctly.

It's a simple game, but it's a lot of fun; it's especially easy imagine that dance-offs with friends in the living room would be a blast. Harmonix plans to support up to three players.

While I just played a demo of sorts, the final product will have around 600 moves arranged into 90 dance routines. The game will come out this November, around the same time Kinect does. Pricing hasn't been named yet, but expect to keep paying more for new songs as downloadable content.

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