''Dance Dance Revolution Extreme 2'' is the tenth home version of

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to be released in the

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. It was released by

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on September 28, 2005 for the

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. It was announced in a press release by Konami on May 17, 2005, and unveiled at the E3 expo in

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that same day.

Gameplay

Features

The game includes 74 songs, 50 of which are unlocked through normal play or through points earned in Dance Master Mode. The majority of the songs are Konami originals composed by Naoki Maeda. ''Extreme 2'' is the first PlayStation DDR game to include online multiplayer.

Music

''Dance Dance Revolution Extreme 2'' features a total of 74 songs. All songs feature unique videos designed for this game, except for "

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" by

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, which features a shorter version of its official music video. Many songs from ''Extreme 2'' appear in subsequent ''Dance Dance Revolution'' releases, and their ''Extreme 2'' videos are preserved in these releases. , - * 1998 * Absolute (Cuff -N- Stuff it Mix) * Afronova (from Nonstop Megamix) * Afronova Primeval * Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now) * Air * As The Rush Comes * Be Lovin * Block Rockin' Beats * Boom Boom Dollar (K.O.G G3 Mix) * Brilliant 2U * Brilliant 2U (K.O.G G3 MIX) * Burnin' the Floor * Burnin' the Floor (Blue Fire mix) * Butterfly (Upswing Mix) * Can Be Real * Candy♥ * Cartoon Heroes (Speedy Mix) * Colors ~for Extreme~ * Crazy In Love * * Dive * Dynamite Rave * Dynamite Rave (B4 Za Beat Mix) * Genie in a Bottle * Get Busy * Happy Wedding * Heaven is a '57 metallic gray ~gimmix~ * I Need You (Insideout Door Mix) * Infinite Prayer * Injection of Love (Hina Mix) * Insertion (Machine Gun Kelly Mix) § * Inside Your Heart * In the Heat of the Night * Irrésistiblement * I Will Survive * Keep On Movin' ~DMX Mix~ * La Bamba * La Copa de La Vida * L'amour et la liberté (DDR version) * Look at Us (Daddy DJ Remix) * Look To The Sky (Trance Mix) * Look To The Sky (True Color Mix) * Love is Orange * Make A Difference * Maria (I Believe) * Miracle Moon ~L.E.D.Light Style Mix~ * My My My * Oops!... I Did It Again * Paranoia * Paranoia Survivor * Paranoia Survivor Max * Passion of Love * Play That Funky Music * Polovtsian Dances And Chorus * Pump Up The Volume * Quickening * * * Saturday Night Love * Seduction * Sexy Planet * Sexy Planet (from Nonstop Megamix) * Silence (Airscape Remix) * Speed Over Beethoven * Spin Spin Sugar (Armand's Dark Garage Mix) * Sweet Sweet Love Magic * Sync (EXTREME version) * Tomorrow * Twin Bee ~Generation X~ * Un Deux Trois * Wonderful Night (radio edit) * You gotta move it (feat. Julie Rugaard) § This song is unrelated to the mainstream rapper

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. The official music video for Block Rockin' Beats appears in ''

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Reception

References

External links

DDR EXTREME 2
Official Homepage at Konami America

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