DJ Max

Feb 12, ’06 11:58 AM
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Like many others around the globe, I am completely enthralled with the recent release of Pentavision’s DJ Max for the PSP. It is a solid recreation of my much beloved Beatmania series, except perfectly adapted for a portable. It has over 50 tracks (many of which are surprisingly good), a metric ton of things to unlock, and a nice steady difficulty curve.

If you own a PSP, you owe it to yourself to pick this up. And if you have already picked it up – or even if you haven’t and just want more information – I’ve started work on translating as much info about the game as I can and slapping it on my wiki. Contributions are always welcome. You can read the info at:

http://vjarmy.com/wiki/index.php/DJ_Max

If you don’t have a PSP, don’t fret: Beatmania’s US release for the PS2 is just over a month away. And if you want to learn more about that, why, there’s a wiki page for that too!

  • http://www.soldara.com sp00f

    Dan — You continue to amaze me with all you gaming knowledge. You are right though, this game is hot. Any word on a 360 clone?

  • http://www.arch0wl.com Arch0wl

    Actually Remy, this is a PSP adaption of the popular Korean PC game DJMAX. This game has been out for the PC for years. The game is distinctly different from Beatmania, in both musical style and the way you’d approach it. What I am hoping is that they ditched all of the “SC” bullshit. If you’ve played DJMAX, instead of having legitimately hard levels, all of their would-be hard levels are bastardized because they have a life gauge that doesn’t recover. So, it’s all good until you reach the “SC” level and then every stage is like a DDR extra stage. I really hope they ditched that, because if they didn’t, then that’s gonna suck pretty hard.

  • http://vjarmy.com/ Dan Dickinson

    Arch0wl – I’m aware of the PC version, although I can’t say that I’ve played it. The PSP version, at the very least, differs in terms of button configs and has no multiplayer modes. There are no SC levels in the PSP version. The life bar is always able to recover.