5Street
(36 votes, average: 3.17 / 5)
Loading ...5Street is a unique 3D rhythm dancing game by Snail Games. Unlike other rhythm games, 5Street offers a huge persistent world that players can explore and interact in. Earn experience in the game by dancing with other players online in multiple game modes. 5Street is just as much a social MMO as it is a dancing MMO with its non dance related activities.
Publisher: Snail Games
Playerbase: Low
Graphics: High Quality
Type: MMO
EXP Rate: Medium
PvP: N/A
Filesize: 1520 MB
Pros: +Large persistent world, +Lively atmosphere +Varied dance moves, +Player housing, +Unique gameplay, +Huge potential
Cons: -Small player base, -Repetitive gameplay, -Poor translations, -Limited song library
5Street Overview
5Street is a gorgeous 3D rhythm dancing MMO. The game is known as ‘HighStreet5′ in Asia and has only recently arrived in the United States. 5Street breaks away from traditional racing games by offering a persistent world where players can do as they please. Players can dance anywhere they want in the games designated dancing zones and also stop whenever they want. There aren’t any strictly defined matches or competitions, so you can start and stop dancing in the middle of a song if you choose to. If you’re looking to practice, you can even dance by yourself in a corner if you’d like to. 5Street adds variety to the game by allowing players to dance as couples as well as solo. The game’s core gameplay is similar to that of every other dancing MMO, but the game offers much more than dancing; 5Street offers a huge persistent world that players can explore and interact in. 5Street is definitely one the most unique dancing game out there, so if you’re into rhythm based games, this ones worth checking out.
5Street Screenshots
5Street Featured Video
5Street Review
By, Omer Altay
5Street is one of the only three dancing MMOs out there. Perhaps dancing based rhythm genre will be next big thing, as Nexon already launched their dancing title Audition Online and Acclaim launched Dance Online. If you’ve played either of the other two dancing games, and didn’t like them, odds are you won’t like 5Street because the game’s core gameplay is identical to them. The one incredibly unique thing 5Street has going for it is its focus on social interaction. Unlike Audition and Dance online players can do other things besides dancing.
The Dancing
The core gameplay of 5Street is pretty straight forward. While dancing just hit the keys on your screen in the correct order and hit the space bar just as the rhythm line hits the glowing part of the meter. It doesn’t make much sense trying to explain it, but to put it simply you just have to quickly hit the keys on your screen. Upon performing enough consecutive “perfects” you’ll have the choice to start doing a special dance trick and these special tricks are the best way to earn points. The dance tricks make sure your character do some pretty crazy dance moves but all you have to do while performing a trick is basically keep doing what you’ve been doing before, except hit a lot more keys a lot faster. Every time you clear a series of keys the next set of keys will become more and more difficult. If you’re too slow or you hit the wrong key your character will fall down and you’ll start dancing again normally. The longer you do special dance moves the more points you’ll earn. 5Street has four different dance modes, they are Single Dance, Battle Dance, lovers Dance or group dance. All of the dance modes are pretty much the same thing and the dancing itself is incredibly repetitive, as after an hour or so of playing you’ve just about experienced everything the game’s dancing system has to offer.
Wait, Whats up with this?
When I first started playing 5Street I expected it to be a straight out dancing rhythm game, but to my surprise the game seems to have just as much focus on player interaction as it does on dancing. In one part of the game there is no ‘game lobby’ or a ‘game rooms’, you can literally walk around and explore the game’s persistent world. In order to dance with other people, you have to physically walk up to them and hit the “start dancing” button on your screen. The game only allows dancing in certain areas of the game world, but the fact that the game is in a persistent world makes the game unique. You don’t even have to wait for a song to end to join a group of people and begin dancing, just walk up to them and hit the dance button. The game also lets you choose your difficulty before you begin dancing, which caught me by surprise because I imagined that everyone would have to be dancing at the same difficulty for it to be a fair match, but apparently this whole part of the game is more for fun rather that competition. If you want to compete you have to click the little competition button the corner of the screen. It’s only when you click this button do you get the familiar lobby based system that other rhythm games have. Every player also has their own house, which is something I haven’t seen in a dancing MMO before, but unfortunately there just isn’t anything to do in your house or anyway to really upgrade it. I’m still not sure what the point of competing or dancing in 5Street is because for some reason you start with practically infinite money.
Wait… Infinite money?!
That’s right; you start with enough money to be able to buy anything you want in the game’s store. I have absolutely no idea why the publisher would let you start with enough money to buy anything you want in the shop 100 times over, but that totally kills the point of playing the game. Why should I bust my ass dancing for hours on end if I can already buy anything I want in the shop? The one thing I really liked about 5Street’s shop is that the game has a huge variety of shirts, pants, glasses, hats and so much more. You can literally walk out of the game’s shop with a huge robot costume, superman outfit or something normal whichever is your cup of tea. A lot of items require real cash to use, but there is definitely enough items to keep you entertained even if you don’t pay for anything. 5Street did an incredible job with its store, which makes me upset because the fact that you start with infinite money ruins the incentive to keep playing the game.
Okay, so Whats “good”?
The single best thing that 5Street has going for it is the game’s potential. If the company behind 5Street puts some effort in developing its social features a bit more the game could really operate as a standalone social game with dancing as a secondary feature. The game has everything that a social MMO needs, a large detailed persistent world, objects to interact with (chairs, tables, benches, etc) and lots of clothes to buy! The only drawback to this is that the game currently has an incredibly small player base. I’m not at all surprised at that because the game’s official website is poorly designed. All of the screenshots on the game’s site have Korean text in them and the translations are less than stellar. I could 5Street doing really well if they refine their game, because the whole persistent world social dancing game sounds like a great idea on paper, I just wish 5Street was a more complete game.
Final Verdict: Fair
If you’re looking for a dancing game to get into, try Audition Online or Dance Online instead. 5Street has its uniqueness, but the game’s dancing system isn’t nearly as polished as its competitors. Even if you enjoy the game’s dancing system 5Street just doesn’t have a big enough player base to always be able to find someone to dance with.
5Street Screenshots
5Street Videos
5Street Gameplay Trailer
5Street Beach Dance Video
5Street Dance Video
5Street Clothing Mall Video
5Street Featured Video
5Street System Requirements
Minimum Requirements:
OS: Windows XP/ Vista
CPU: 1.0 GHz Intel P3 or equivalent
RAM: 512 MB RAM
HDD: 1.6 GB Free
Graphics Card: Direct x 9 Compatible VGA card
Recommended Specification:
OS: Windows XP/ 2000 / 98 / Vista
CPU: 2.4 Ghz Intel P4 or equivalent
RAM: 1024 MB (1GB) RAM
HDD: 1.6 GB Free
Graphics Card: Direct x 9 Compatible VGA card
