Come on in to the Generation Girl Lounge and meet your dancing friends. There's Nichelle, who grooves on swing; Ana, the salsa girl; Chelsie, with her romantic European steps; Tori, the hip-hop athletic dancer, and Barbie, who specializes in pop music dance steps. Create your own dance steps, put together routines, choose costumes, and design stage sets with Lara, your stage manager, as you prepare for the big dance performance at International High School in New York.
Barbie Generation Girl Gotta Groove features a distinct song and style for each of the characters and the CD can be used as a regular music CD as well (skip Track 1). The Lounge is the central gathering screen and includes a computer where you can design your own or view other Personality Pages. Use an in-game VCR to view demo dances or save and watch your own creations. From here, you can access the practice room, costume shop, set shop, and the Performance Dome.
To create dance routines, each girl has her own set of Dance Cards, each showing a specific move. Put them in the order you want them, click on your character, and create her routine. A Dance Challenge mode allows you to acquire additional dance cards and special effect cards for use with the Set Shop. Your dancer can run through her routine solo or in tandem with a partner (you establish the routines for both).
Each girl has her own Style Book for costume making and tools for mixing and matching outfits and fabrics, creating a sparkle effect, or dressing two girls as twins. The Performance Dome is the culmination of the game and houses the "Big Show." Lara helps you choose and customize backgrounds, stage shapes, special lighting effects, special effects, and prizes.
The game supports two players on the same computer, one controlling the dance character with the mouse, the other using the keyboard (arrow keys). Images taken with the Barbie Digital Camera (not included with the game) can be imported to the Personality Page
