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Single or multiplayer game in which an animated character breakdance battles based on the effectiveness of your typing. You have a tiered vocabulary of increasingly larger and more difficult words each with a point value-- two players take turns drag-and-dropping complex words together into sentences and then trying to quickly and accurately pound out the assembled sentence in one try. More difficult words with faster and more accurate typing result in a stronger overall set and corresponding audience reaction. But if you mess up, your breakdancer messes up and is met with jeers from the audience (the audience will boo you continuously while there are typos onscreen, eventually causing your b-boy to melt down mid-set). In actual gameplay, two opponents escalate the stakes by outdoing each others' complex sentences with fast, flawless execution (and correspondingly awesome breaker moves) until the contest goes to the judges. Points are awarded modestly for successful execution, and lavishly for topping your opponent's high score and your own-- victory is achieved specifically by trying to one-up your opponent's previous effort every round and will garner more "love" from the audience than maintaining a constant level of difficulty. In addition, in the final round the word allowance is doubled to allow competitors to really go all-out. After 3 back-and-forth rounds, the decision is announced by computer judges and "who served who" is logged permanently in the game records. Winners earn more powerful moves (each comes with a set of corresponding words) and in the 2009 sequel can associate with a "crew" online to participate team-based "crew battles" in further iterations of the game. Eventually a world champions version could be created, in which you call someone out to a particular international venue-- battling using Spanish vocabulary on the streets of Madrid, etc. Just imagine it-- the roar of "OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH" vibrating from the audience as you power through the last few letters of antidisestablishmentarianism and bust a RAW headspin-to-freeze-to b-boy stance on stage. You got served, kid. Served!