Boogie Sequel Set for This Fall?

May. 8 12:33 PM by Lynxara

Boogie is one of those games traditional gamers hate and "blue ocean" gamers seem to love. While I have a lot of sympathy for the "blue ocean" strategy and the people it reaches out to, I got completely bored with the gameplay inside of a ten-minute demo at last year's E3, so my opinion of the title is not especially high. Regardless, it moved roughly 300,000 copies and got more than its fair share of complimentary write-ups in mainstream news pieces about the Wii (and a 57% percent Metacritic average, to indicate how little the enthusiast press thought of it).

It seems that the sales were good enough to convince EA to fund a sequel to their karaoke/rhythm/general goofiness title. Although EB Games has since deleted the listing, their website briefly listed a title called Boogie Superstar set to ship for Wii in October 2008. Right now the only record that the listing was ever up is reports from eagle-eyed sites like WorthPlaying.com. Would this theoretical Boogie sequel actually manage to be fun to play? Personally, I'm doubtful, but I fully expect to see EA officially announce this one in the coming months.