All Star Cheer Squad | 
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Category: Video Games
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Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 163
Platform: Nintendo Wii
Genre: dancing_games
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 5 - 20 years
Operating System: Nintendo Wii
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: 30155
Model: 30155
UPC: 785138301556
EAN: 0785138301556
ASIN: B00166R2RQ
Release Date: October 27, 2008
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| Features:
| • | Use the Wii Fit Board to balance and perform stunts | | • | Use the Wii remote and nunchuck to perform dozens of real-world cheer/dance moves | | • | Compete in squad and one-on-one cheer-offs | | • | Customize the look of your team including body, facial features, hair and outfits | | • | Learn new moves and choreograph your own cheer routines to music |
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Amazon.com Product Description
In All Star Cheer Squad, players will follow a year in the life of a cheerleader as you learn new cheers, participate in practices and create your own routines in the hopes of making the squad and eventually becoming its captain. High-energy gameplay includes squad competitions and one-on-one cheer-offs, where players will use the Wii Remote and Nunchuk to perform dozens of real-world cheer and dance moves.
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Choose to be a girl, boy or neither.
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The right look for your cheer.
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Use the Wii-mote for upper body.
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And Balance Board for the lower.
View larger. | In order to ensure that All Star Cheer Squad has the latest cheer action and top routines, world-renowned cheerleading choreographer Tony G, best known for his work in the "Bring It On" movies, has signed on as chief consultant for the game. All Star Cheer Squad will also incorporate use of the Wii Balance Board to get the player's entire body involved in the game and add to the ultimate cheerleading experience. Players will be able to customize the look of their cheerleader and squad including body, facial features, hair and outfits. Show the Squad What you Are Made Of
The backstory that plays out in All Star Cheer revolves around player's attempts to make the 'Fox Squad' cheer roster. Although a top squad, they have suffered a tough setback when one of their top captains has been sidelined by injury. The show must go on though. Players goal in singleplayer modes is first to make the squad, later progressing up its ranks and finally putting what you've learned to good use as a choreographer. Key Game Features: - 1-4 player support.
- Use the Wii remote and nun-chuck to perform dozens of real-world cheer/dance moves.
- Full body cheer experience using the Wii Balance Board (optional).
- Compete and cooperate in squad and one-on-one cheer-offs.
- Customize the look of your team including facial features, hair, style & color, make-up and outfits.
- Learn new moves and choreograph your own cheer routines to music.
- Grow your all-star squad to be the best and lead them to the championship as Cheer Captain.
Varied Gameplay
Gameplay within All Star Cheer Squad consists of players mimicking the stream of on-screen prompts, representing individual moves within a cheer routine, and accumulating points according to their accuracy. Action is registered through the use of various controllers. Ideally the game simulates a the range of body motion--both upper and lower--that a cheerleader utilizes. With this in mind, to take advantage of the game's full potential players should use both the combination of a Wii Remote with attached Nunchuck controller for upper body movement, and a Wii Balance Board for lower body movement. But this configuration is not mandatory for play. A Wii Remote with Nunchuck will suffice. Play options consist of: Singleplayer - Singleplayer action in All Star Cheer Squad comes in two varieties: Quick play and Career Mode. Career Mode on the other hand contains the lion's share of the singleplayer experience as well as the storyline of the game. As players begin this mode they choose the gender and basic customization options of their character like initial attire, facial features, etc. From there they are introduced to the current members of Fox Squad. Considered as an unproven rookie the players must try out and make the squad to gain respect and a spot on the team. If successful more advanced routines and moves as well as unique custom items will be unlocked, which will earn you credibility and provide the opportunity to move up in the hierarchy of the squad, eventually all the way to captain. Quickplay is a standard tutorial mode where players can practice basic and not so basic moves that will come in handy regardless of the player's experience and comfort level with the Wii Remote, Nunchuck and the Wii Balance Board. Multiplayer - All Star Cheer Squad supports 2-4 players either cooperative or competitive multiplayer. Team up and work together as a unit and the goal is to get the highest overall routine score as a squad by following the on-screen prompts as you face down a bevy of AI supplied competition. As squads progress through the mode, moves routines and their synchronization with music become more and more difficult, complex and frantic. Players who instead choose to go the route of competitive multiplayer face off against friends in a versus mode where not only do they need to follow the in-game prompts, to hope to win in a tight battle they must shoot for perfect execution of moves. String together three perfect moves and your team receives a 'call out." These can be used to add points to your score, trip up the opposing cheer line when their turn comes, protect your own line in this case. Whichever team has the highest score at the end of the game wins. Any way you choose to play it All Star Cheer Squad is an aspirational game that captures the fun and action of the real life Cheer world. Immerse yourself in the creativity, customization, style and teamwork All Star Cheer Squad. And don't forget to Bring it on!
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 Slowwwwww and flawed!! November 23, 2008
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
We got this looking for another game that would work with the Wii Fit board! Its about to be returned!!
I agree with the other reviews - this game has some serious flaws which affect playability and general fun!
First Wii Cheer had a great idea in allowing you to use one remote in each hand to execute the moves - this game, in contrast, has you use the remote in one hand and nunchuck in the other. This idea might work if you are a child...a little child, but as the cord between the two is not that long, the moves are either restricted or impossible to perform for an adult or even a child above 8/9!!
Second is the annoying delay - some of the moves you do are recognized too late if at all, the other times it identifies moves made, that have not actually been performed!! Add to this the need to calibrate the board between each dance set which adds a delay between play -very fustrating!!
This is a cute idea, but like many Wii games, it seems it may have been rushed to market before the kinks were worked out...its a shame!!
Not Impressed...selling it back November 21, 2008
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Ok, here is the thing. I am in college and love my wii, so when I saw an all star game I was so excited. I was an all star cheerleader, and I thought "how cool. What a good way to stay in shape!" However I am very very disapointed. I guess if you were a little kid or had really short arms it would be great. The game requires you to connect the numchuck to the remote to do the motions, however the cord connecting the two is so short, you can't even do the motions for real. I mean I was disapointed that I couldn't even make a high v.
Overall, great for kids who want to learn more about cheerleading or practice motions for tryouts for a team, but just not a good game for adults who want it to stay in shape.
 Got the CordLESS moves? Get `em and Cheer your squad straight to the top! November 15, 2008
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
Until I got further into this game, I thought it was a real clunker. Now I'm appreciating all it has to offer. If you want to do AUTHENTIC cheerleader routines of the kind you`d be scored on in real life? This game gives it to you. The hook in this game is watching yourself actually become a better living-room cheerleader, building learned moves upon learned moves, being forced to pass practises and competition before you can go on. Warning: you may find yourself becoming quite the competitive cheerleader...
Back story: I did try-outs and got to 'week three' with a corded-nunchuk, then deleted my game, bought a cordLESS nunchuk and started all over again. My scores all went up about 25%, not to mention the fun of it increased infinately.
The Great:
--300 basic cheer moves, dance, flare, squats, kicks, jumps, etc., you can use string together in any timing you want to create your own routines! Incredible for coaches or people who want to map their own. Unseen before variation catalogue of movements and potential for creative expression in cheerleading choreography.
--The game accurately displays a great majority of basic and advanced cheer moves, dances, jumps.
--Practices, routines, and championships you attempt all have an movie icon for instant replay. Which is great if you want to redo a routine over and over for exercise or learning purposes!
--Potential for use as an advanced, full-body cheerleading workout or personal cheerleader trainer tool. With a *cordLESS* nunchuk you work up a sweat!
--MANY routines to work through and learn, and redo over and over just for fun and exercise.
--The storyline (after it's snobby, cruel start) is engaging and you really get motivated to try and beat the other squads and take your squad to first place wins.
--The genuine sense that you are actively part of a cheerleading squad, working, learning, and training, competing.
--Unlike We Cheer (which is just pure fun and dancing good times), ASCS breaks down all the moves slowly and increases them as you advance and pass tryouts, practices, and competitions. Where as We Cheer is a throw-your-self-in dance blitz, ASCS forces you to get a "C" to pass. You really feel like a real cheerleader, working. I know it sounds nuts, but I feel a genuine sense of being on a squad as I'm trying. I fail sometimes but mostly I pass thru with at least a `C' grade.
--The competitions are a blast! I think I'm going to need a cheerleader outfit.
--This WILL teach you to actually CHEER like a real cheerleader. Not a disco or a club-dancing cheerleader, but an authentic cheerleader.
The Bad:
--The Menu is half hidden after tryouts and annoying.
--Like most rhythm games on the wii, not every move registers. So it goes, on the first gen wii games. I score lower than I think I should. I can forgive that.
--Real cheerleading is not about coordinating your wii remote and nunchuk and hitting a, b, c, and z buttons in weird combinations that have zero to do with cheering. They overcomplicated what should have remained perfectly simply holding two wii motes like We Cheer, or just the nunchuk and wiimote like Hannah Montana Spotlight World Tour-- neither of which does any button-ing at all. Perhaps the button pushing will become instinctual with the actual body movement over time. Possible. Will update on that.
--You can't open your arms wide or do any of the moments realistically with the cord whipping you in the face. And they show the cord in the instructional parts of the game, so idk if the cordless nunchuk had *not* been born when this game was conceived, but a cordLESS nunchuk has got to be the **ONLY** way this game can be played with realism. Underline `the only way'. Honestly. No exaggeration. Other wise it's a couch sitting game you mock mercilessly, and rightly so. With a corded nunchuk, you're what I deemed a `ninja cheerleader" whipping your arms around in patterns and trying not to take your own eyes out with slap-stinging cords. It's very uncheerleader-like with the cord. Like pitching pennies in a fountain with your wrist handcuffed is what it felt like.
--Wii board compatible -- which should be 100% ignored as it brings cheerleading action to a rooted position and forces you to stand in one spot - incredibly lame. Put the wii board away and forget it, to enjoy this full-body game of twists, turns, dances, and jumps.
--With a few exceptions, 31 monotonous, droning, no-energy cheer songs with little spirit. I love cheer songs! These annoyed me. I was surprised.
--Unbelievably long loading times-- 45 seconds plus between dances and menu choices.
--Each practice has some of the longest explanations for the blatantly obvious I`ve ever seen while listening to one of these most annoying voices ever. Thankfully, button "2" can speed you right thru the practice explanatations.
-- Horrible zooming in and out, and wide arcing camera angles, at times your cheerleader is totally missing from the screen for 5 or 6 seconds. It drives me nuts when I'm trying to see moves they are preforming. I wish they'd just shoot instructionals head on. I need to SEE not be impressed by use of camera tricks.
--Tiny cheerleaders! One screen they take up approx 25 percent of view, and less at other times. Ridiculous! They should have been bigger and I shouldn't have to squint to see what they are doing. They should have WAY zoomed in on them!
There's a lot to consider about this game for real and would-be *cheerleaders*. Casual players can probably quit reading right now and save money and effort and buy We Cheer or Boogie Superstar which is way less coordinated or mentally-demanding.
(Real cheerleading isn't easy, tho, folks, and they did a good representation of it's demands, mental and physical, in this game.)
Even after all the bad I heard of it, and after a lot of thought I decided to buy ASCS and am very glad I did because:
--This game teaches you many, many cheer moves, it has great repetitions, it really does TEACH, and it builds on itself.
--I like to create my own cheerleading routine originals. This one I can customize my own workout to my own songs.
--The cheer moves are totally authentic. My kids took cheerleading for two years and I this is what they did in real life.
--The routines with the cordless nunchuk really get your upper and lower body working. I try to match the leg movement as well off the wii board to get the full experience and work out.
In ASCS's defence, it worked very hard on reproducing detailed, authentic, and varied cheerleading motions to a game. It fails to impress immediately because it hides everything good about the game; for instance: that these cheerleaders do dance later on, and are capable of more than just looking like robotic clones directing traffic on an airstrip. I'm 40% done the game now, and I'm amazed at how much more fun it's become and how competitive I feel. Moves do get more dancy.
Now I'm really into it. And even my kids are too, and they seem to prefer it to We Cheer (tho We Cheer and ASCS are apples and oranges and completely different games with different adgendas and it`s unfair to compare them for this reason, as We Cheer is made for pure fun, and ASCS is made to teach you to cheer moves and give you as simulated cheer SQUAD experience, which it does.). I believe my kids have been more drawn to ASCS because it challenges you to build on your successes with it's practice-then-compete set-up. The more you play the more you challenge YOURSELF, despite it's slow load times and unnatural cheerleaders. Something about it makes you burn to keep going and succeed. Which surprised me.
Bottom line: The buried goodies of it are there to uncover for anyone who simmers with the desire for a cheerleader studio IN their living room. And I do. So I'm thrilled to have bought it and persevered enough to have begun to get to its usefulness factor and engaging, motivating storyline. If you're a after a genuine cheerleader experience, work to unlock the other 150 moves with a cordLESS nunchuk and you have a great cheerleading personal-trainer! I started to feel very sassy when new moves started unlocking. I can even forgive the unbelievable slow load times for good dance routines-- as complex cheerleading and dance dvds and games are rare and I`ve spent way too much money on dust collectors.
For a casual, fun-seeking player (as the term 'game' implies to us as consumers) it's too little too little too late, tho, which is a very valid experience for most buyers of the game, unfortunately. ASCS is a workhorse, and while that is not downgraded in my review at all, `gaming' implies fun and little frustration, and ASCS excels at frustrating in the beginning. It's got a lot of buried treasure but you have to persevere for it and they make it as annoying as possible at the start, so it`s no wonder people are irked. But after that, it really softens up and you totally get into winning competitions.
I give ASCS 5 stars as a cheerleading squad experience. It's clunky and stiff at the beginning but worth it to keep on going! I love it. But I do understand completely why it frustrated people to the max and why it's reviews were bad, and I had the exact same experience until I got more into the game. Games should sell themselves instantly out of the box, and this is not the case with ASCS. That said, the rewards of persevering with a cordless nunchuk are worthwhile and satisfying.
Go Fox Squad!
 You need a wireless nunchuck!!!? November 8, 2008
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
This game is not fun without a wireless nunchuck. It's not easy or fun to do the moves if you can't extend your arms to look like the character on the screen. The nunchuck wire slaps you in the face and occasionally gets stuck behind your head. If you had a cheerleader ponytail it would be mangled. I wish I would have bought the Wee cheer instead.
 Give me a C! November 4, 2008
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
This game is clearly designed for younger girls, so maybe it's my own fault for wanting to relive my high school cheerleader days. I expected cheesy dialogue, that was a given, but the gameplay with the Wii Fit Board is horrid.
In career mode you design your cheerleader, then head off to try out to join the Fox Squad. You learn moves in practices before heading into tryouts. This is all reasonable. What is unreasonable is that as you leave each practice (you have to complete 4 prior to the first tryout), you have to get off the board for it to recalibrate before moving into the next practice.
This feature causes game play to be really slow. Otherwise, there's a lot of potential and I enjoy the video replay option for tryouts, but I'm overall underwhelmed with this game.
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