DJ Max Fever is a game that focuses much more on the music than the graphics. As a matter of fact, for the most part, the graphics are pretty terrible from the sense of the gameplay, but the graphics are decent if you use the video-mode to watch and listen to the songs.

The intro video to the game got my complete attention but not because of the quality of the graphics but because of the content. The first thought that crossed my mind when the intro video started was that I somehow had the wrong game in the PSP; most of the graphics in the video had something to do with cell phones. The video had such an abundance of cell phones that I initially thought that Verizon Wireless finally broke into the video game market. "Can you hear me now?"

As it turns out Verizon has nothing to do with the game although the game is displayed through the screen of a cell phone. In DJ Max Fever small rectangles fall from the top of the screen towards the bottom. Pressing the corresponding button at the appropriate time will be registered as a successful hit but I don't want to jump ahead of myself; the gameplay and controls have a section of their own. As I was saying, the mechanical aspect of the game is displayed on the cell phone screen but the phone is not all that you see. The background behind the phone is composed of different graphics and animations that vary with different songs. Although the background displays are not the best quality graphics found on the PSP, at least it is better then just a blank screen.

The game's sound is probably the game's strongest feature. DJ Max Fever incorporated a wide array of music that you can "DJ" and although I don't think I recognized a single song out of the game, as a critic I do have to admit that this PSP game has been more generous with its music than a lot of other games have been. Music is definitely a form of art, and as art goes, you either like it or you don't. While you're not going to find me listening to this game's music in my free time, I have pulled up to many stoplights and had the misfortune of hearing very similar music being blared out from car radios of teenage girls. Maybe I'm just getting to old and maybe I'm not hip anymore but that music is just not my style. And talking about style... there is one aspect of the game that is as much part of the sound as it is part of the game's visual aspects. I'm talking about the video section of the game. The MV edition part of the game allows the user to watch and hear any of the 48 songs available for this section. The songs do not have a traditional video per say but they are powered by full graphic animations that actually resemble more of a screensaver rather than an actual music video.