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At E3 I played Dance Central, Dance Masters, Zumba Fitness, and Your Shape: Fitness Evolved.

Dance Central was the bomb.  I really enjoyed it and wrote a very happy preview about it here.  Awesome moves, awesome songs, awesome freestyle section, great presentation, awesome way to see which steps come next, awesome tutorial mode to learn the steps in advance.

Dance Masters was okay.  I kind of liked how you had to match specific poses at specific times.  It reminded me of We Cheer 2 in that sense.  But I preferred the madness of Dance Central.

Zumba Fitness was great.  It was more of a cardio-dance the calories off type of exercise game, but that meant it had some more hilarious dance moves.  It was basically a hilarious workout video.

Your Shape: Fitness Evolved had some really neat use of Kinect, when it put me on the screen.  I could change the color of myself so I could be a green me-shaped blob, or pink or purple, or just the straight up live video feed of myself inside the game.  That was really cool.  The actual gameplay though: I only got to play a few parts.  Some of it was just ... the same stuff from Wii Fit, but without the ability to measure my balance, which was really important for the yoga-type stuff.  But punching the blocks out of the air was pretty rad.

For all the games I hated the menus and selecting any options at all.  I thought it was really awkward and janky.  But Dance Central rules.  It's a shame they're all only 2 players.