Product Description

Wii Fit Balance Board Compatible - Not Included

All Star Cheerleader allows players to participate in the competitive sport of Cheer, combining traditional cheerleading, dance, gymnastics and squad-based teamwork. Players create their own avatar, learn cheer and dance moves, compete against individual team members and ultimately compete against other squads. The player's goal is to become captain of his or her squad and eventually lead the squad to win all of the competitions in the single-player campaign.

• Use the Wii Remote, Nunchuk and Wii Balance Board to perform dozens of real-world cheer/dance moves
• Latest cheer action and top routines designed by Tony G, world renowned cheer choreographer, best known for his work on the "Bring It On" movies
• Learn new moves and choreograph your own cheer routines to music
• High-energy gameplay - take part in squad competitions and one-on-one cheer-offs
• Customisable cheer squads - choose the look of your team including facial features, hair and outfits
• Follow a year in the life of a cheerleader - start with try-outs and grow your all-star squad to be the best as you lead them to the championship as Cheer Captain

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1856 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: THQ
• Released on: 2008-11-14
• Platform: Nintendo Wii
• Format: Unknown format

Manufacturer's Description
All Star Cheer Squad allows players to participate in the competitive sport of Cheer, combining traditional cheerleading, dance, gymnastics and squad based teamwork. Players create their own avatar, learn cheer and dance moves, compete against individual team members and ultimately compete against other squads. The player's goal is to become captain of his or her squad and eventually lead the squad to win all of the competitions in the single player campaign.

Customer Reviews

Not a good balance board game
This is a fun game to play but suffers from a few issues. It has unusually long load times for each practice or routine or even for a tiny cut-scene. Each section is usually less than a minute long but has at least a 30 second load time. If you try to use the balance board it resets at the beginning of EVERY practice or routine adding another 30 seconds or so of waiting.

Without the balance board it is just about worth waiting for the sections to load. The routines are fun and seem well designed and easy to follow. The increase in difficulty is well-managed and the competitions are challenging but not impossible. At this price I think it is a 3 star game, if they'd resolved the loading issues and got the balance board properly integrated it might have been 4.

The other tiny niggle I had was that there isn't a lot of guidance on how to play the game. Create a cheerleader character as soon as you start otherwise none of your progress will be saved. I'd suggest starting with 'Career'.

Don't bother
This game looks great but has lots of issues regarding play. Load time for each segment (regardless of length) is ridiculously slow (often as long as the actual segment) If you use the balance board it's even longer.
You are unable to complete moves to the full extent due to the length of the wire between the remotes.
Also it doesn't seem that sensitive to the moves. you can do it and it won't register. I also find the instructions for some none existant and the different pictures often contradict each other.
I'd wait until they sorted these issues out before buying to prevent disappointment.

Good not great
I love dance and since this is linked to the balance board for the wii fit I thought I'd give it a try.
I found the initial customisation of your cheerleader/squad fun but the controls for it weren't explained very well, I struggled to work out what I was doing (and I'm fairly tech savvy.)
I started with the practise sessions and often found the load time was quite long especially when syncing the wii board up. I found the initial moves easy to master but got to a point where no matter what I did I couldn't seem to get my remotes to register that I was making the move required (Whether it was just me or the game I can't say for sure but I did think that you should have the option to see what the move you are doing looks like from different angles because the angle i could see was hard to distinguish the correct positioning.)
My biggest problem? I'm in my 20s and the cord between my nunchuck and wii mote just wouldn't stretch far enough for some of the moves so unless you're a child or have a wireless nunchuck it can be a big problem for the game.
Did I like the game? Yes, Is it fun to try and do the routines? Yes, Would I buy it again? Not unless I had a wireless remote or it was on sale.