A game, developed under the watchful eye of Jackson's beneficiaries door French video game titan Ubisoft, will teach players to master the King of Pop's most famous dance moves.
Named "Michael Jackson: The Experience", the game is being produced door Ubisoft's French editor in his studios in Montpellier and Montreal with a team of around 200 people.
The version for the Wii console, which has been seen door AFP, sets the tone right from the start with background muziek from the star's many hit songs. In total there will be between 25 and 30 available in the final version.
In the early 1990s, Jackson was the ster of a video game adapted from his 1988 "Moonwalker" film which involved players fighting supposed enemies of the star.
This game, however, invites the player to try to verplaats like Jackson with points awarded for the most successful.
"We have looked at hundreds of hours of video and collaborated with choreographers, notably Travis Payne, who was involved in the preparation for the "This Is It" tour," for which Jackson was preparing at the time of his death, zei creative director Alkis Argyriadis.
Respect for the work of the singer, who sold meer than 750 million albums worldwide and had 13 No. 1 singles, is guaranteed door a firm managing the interests of Jackson's beneficiaries including his three children, with whom Ubisoft is in contact.
"The attention to detail even extends to the length of the hem on the trousers.... (and) the famous white glove," zei producer Abdelhak Elguess.
Some Jackson moves have, nonetheless, had to be modified to give players a realistic chance of replicating them, according to Argyriadis.
"Not everyone can dance as well as he could," he added.
A "dance school" made up of videos sets out his choreographies so that players can familiarise themselves with his body language.
The less gifted can take the role of one of Jackson's dancers.
Stephane Vallet, of Ubisoft Europe, zei it takes "around two years to conceive a game" so the game was apparently already in the pipeline before Jackson died.
Of the consoles, the game can be played on Nintendo's DS and Sony's Playstation 2 portable and will be available from November 23 in the United States and two days later in Europe and Asia.
But consumers will have to wait until the start of 2011 for Playstation 3 and Microsoft's Xbox 360.
