KidConfidence: Hannah Montana: Spotlight World Tour - video game review for parents and kids

KidConfidence Rating: fair

6.5/10

Gameplay

6.5

Multiplayer

6.5

Replay Value

6.5

Educational Value

6.5

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38/45

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ESRB Rating: Everyone

Game Summary:

Take the stage as Hannah Montana while continuing to develop your musical and fashion skills. By using the Wii Remote and Nunchuk you and Hannah will dance together in order to gain more fans. Off stage, you can create concert wardrobes by shopping all over the world. You aren't alone as Lilly, Oliver, Jackson and Robbie give you help where they can! Control lighting and stage effects for an unforgettable concert Share photos of fashion designs and record dances to share with friends

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Game Review:

The videogame “Hannah Montana: Spotlight World Tour” is based on the characters of the Emmy nominated Disney Channel original series Hannah Montana.

Here is a quick primer for parents new to the Hannah Montana phenomenon:
Played by Miley Cyrus, Hannah Montana is a preteen who lives a secret life as a pop star. Cyrus’s real life dad, country crooner Billy Ray Cyrus, plays her dad and manager. Miley just moved from Tennessee as a country singer and now has to adapt to life in Malibu. Mitchel Musso and Emily Osment star as the friends of Miley who know her big secret and Jason Earles stars as Miley’s brother.
The show includes original music recorded by its star, Miley. The soundtrack was the eighth best selling album of 2006 in the U.S., with nearly two million copies sold that year. An estimated 3.2 million copies were sold worldwide.

The Hannah Montana videogame takes your kids on a virtual World Tour while playing as Hannah Montana and other characters from the show. The player will spend the majority of time in rehearsals or live on stage, performing one of 15 original songs in a several different countries.

The game is played by performing (acting out) various moves with the Motion-Sensing Wii Remote and Nunchuck attachment. The player’s moves must be timed and matched to icons scrolling on the lower part of the screen. (Think Dance Dance Revolution – only with your hands instead with your feet). However, unlike Dance Dance Revolution, Hannah Montana is easy enough to be enjoyed by young gamers around the age of 6. The game becomes progressively more difficult, but never un-manageable.

Several studies have been conducted on the benefits of Rhythm games, suggesting that these games stimulate cognitive and physical development in children.

Hannah Montana also stimulates the need for girls to shop the world’s greatest stores. Stage credits earned can be spent on new outfits and accessories. Unfortunately, the game is a little cheap in the graphics department. The Backstage areas look exactly the same in all countries, except for some different posters and items here or there.

The game may not rewrite the rules for rhythm/music games, but it gets your kids moving and is surprisingly fun. Definitely a save bet for any Hannah Montana fan.

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=Overall

Good game with decent variety and few flaws, 2008-08-03

Reviewer: Turtle502

I am writing this review based on my 7-year old daughter's use of the game and my involvement when she needs my help. Initially this game proved very frustrating for her, as the Wii controls just never seem to be accurate enough to understand what you're doing, and sometimes the indicated on-screen action is not clear enough. It takes some time to find the exact motion that works for the indicated motion. So early on, this resulted in a lot of frustration for everybody.

After two or three tries, however, things started to change. Once my daughter figured out the motions, she actually started enjoying the "dance" sequences. This game is nothing more than a rhythm game, with the exception that, instead of button mashing, you replicate the indicated motions that appear on-screen. The better your timing, the better your score, and the more fans and money you earn. Some of the movements are tightly timed, requiring extremely quick transitions from one hand to the other. However, this is good because I think it teaches young children eye-to-hand coordination, forces them to look ahead to the next several movements, and teaches them a bit about timing and rhythm. There are also harder difficulties.

The music in the game is excellent. You play along with the actual studio recordings of the songs, and the sound quality is near-CD quality. Most of the voice-acting appears to be "sound-alikes" and not the actual performers from the show, although in some cases it is difficult to tell. There are some interesting cut-scenes between the cities you visit, which include some of the same campy comedy present in the show, and even a laugh-track. The computer-animated performances are interesting to watch. Even my wife watches the "performances" as my daughter plays.

The game includes a shopping component which integrates with the back-stage activities and performances. Whatever is purchased from the stores can be worn by Hannah in the game, even during the performances. The only thing I don't agree with -- everything costs the same, exactly "one shopping bag", which I refer to as "a dollar". Everything costs the same, from earrings to jeans, but I think it would be a better idea if things cost different amounts, to force young minds to "budget". The game makes it too easy to buy everything. This is my only complaint about the game.

Overall, this is a good game for young girls. It passes the time, gets them moving, and teaches them a thing or two about coordination and rhythm. For the cost, it will be a welcome addition to your Wii collection, and should have substantial replay value for quite some time.

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=Overall

EASY AND FUN, 2008-06-22

Reviewer: mommyofchristopher

Just purchased this Hannah Montana Game for $18.50 on sale at ToyRUS. It is easy to play. You have to perform at concerts, and then earn points to purchase clothing and shoes. I have a girl with a short attention span, and she just played it for hours. If she can stay still and play for hours, then it's a hit cause she rarely ever stays still. The boys wanted to play, but she said, no it's mine. Too funny!

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Tracy

Dec 25, 08:11 PM

Hi we just purchased this game for my daughter for christmas. I hop ethe game is not as hard as it seems. I think we have a defective game. Hannah wont do nothing in the backsatge area. Since we have been in New York we cant do anything.we walk and that is it. We cant go shopping we cant get on stage, the screen just says off stage and thats as far as we can get. Please inform me if I have a defective disk or we actually doing something wrong thanks for your time, Tracy

leanne templeton

Dec 26, 07:50 AM

having difficulty getting the guitar strumming to count as points, any idea?

Shauna Stanger

Dec 26, 01:59 PM

We can not figure out how to add a second controller. We went to dance off, it tells us we have to have 2 we do and have no where to go to add the control. It won’t let us go beyond that screen, besides back to choices.

heather

Dec 28, 08:34 PM

I can’t figure out how to get to the stage exit or go shopping

jennifer

Jan 4, 05:15 PM

hi i really need help on this game i am stock on the first part i did already the tutorial for dancing but i dont know what else i have to do… if someone can explainme please e-mail me .. my e-mail is count-on@hotmail.com

Christy

Jan 5, 07:21 PM

Can’t figure out how to go shopping and can’t seem to do anything backstage – can only go to New York

Becca

Jan 12, 12:31 PM

I can’t figure out how to get the 2 player part. I tried everything I can think of. Please let me know how to do this. I can’t play with my friends on the game because I can’t figure out how to do 2 player

Destiny

Jan 26, 07:14 AM

We were in Tokyo but went back to New York for Shopping. We couldn’t get out of New York! We could shopping in any other City, but once we left the shopping centers it took us back to New York… We kept performing Encores, but the New Yorkers trapped us!
We finally found that we had to talk to Jackson like we were going shopping, but instead we had to click Perform Concert, this gave us the choice of all the Cities we could go to… We had originally not tried this because we thought it would just do another encore.

Penny

Jan 27, 10:27 AM

dance off can’t add second controller

danb

Feb 1, 08:07 AM

my kids can’t get do anything in the first backstage area.

Hannah

Feb 14, 07:19 AM

I love it i won the whole game but you cant go to all the malls it so anoying

Jessica

Feb 15, 03:54 PM

We can not get the second contoller to work, the game will not let us go to the dance party, dance off or free dance, please let us know. My 7 yr old is getting very frustrated and so am I.

Shalyn

Mar 1, 06:34 AM

In Malibu I unlocked all the songs except 3. I don’t know what the songs are or how to unlock them.

Sandi

Mar 9, 09:46 AM

I am trying to add the 2nd controller for the dance off. I can’t figure out how to do this. Any help would be GREAT !

Abbie

Mar 24, 01:40 PM

I just got the Hannah Montanna Wii game today for my birthday. I went through the warm-up and ended up backstage. All I can do is walk around and when we try to exit it says off screen in the top left corner. We cant get past Miley’s dad or the doors to get to either of the stages or outside to go shopping. Thanks in advance!!

– Abigail

angela

Mar 24, 01:52 PM

Do you know how to add the second controller for the dance off for the Hannah Montana spotlight tour Wii game?
Thanks,
Angela

Mom of Two

Apr 4, 05:03 AM

We can’t add the second controller. It is specially frustrating when we have another girl over for a playdate! Can someone tell me if they have been able to figure out how to add the second controller??

Julian

Jun 23, 01:54 PM

To get these three songs, go shopping in Sydney, Paris, and London, and there are guitar shops. Go next to a guitar stool or guitar, click on it, and then play the song. Once done, you should have the songs

Jen

Jul 7, 10:45 AM

To play two players, you need to connect the 2nd remote from within the game, click on Wii menu, on the bottom of the screen, click on “remote settings”, the follow instructions. Then exit that back to the game. once in the dressing room, click on the + button, then select exit. From don’t save your game at that point, it will then take you to the Main menu, to which you can choose ‘Dance Party” to dance with a friend. YAY!

james soares

Jul 23, 04:22 PM

when it gets to rio it freezes will not let you do any thing

Jess

Aug 14, 08:53 AM

Am stuck in New York. Cannot do much except for walk around in the dressing room. Thanks

georgia

Aug 25, 08:18 AM

Am stuck in New York. Cannot do much except for walk around in the dressing room. Thanks

Lindsey Weaver

Mar 20, 06:43 AM

I am also trying to add the second controller for the dance off, please help! Thanks!

Bonnie

Apr 28, 12:17 PM

In order to add the second wii remote for the dance offs you have to go hit the home button and go to wii remote settings. Then one at a time you have to hit the 1 & 2 buttons together until the lights on the remotes light up. Once you have done this with both remotes just hit the home button again and it should be good to go. Sometimes we have had to do this a couple of times to get it to work but we have been able to do the dance offs. I hope this helps!

fornetti

Aug 30, 07:31 PM

I do not believe this

Zelig

Oct 4, 03:23 AM

Go up to the people and point the wiimote at them to talk to them then you'll go on stage

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