'Your goal is to dance like Michael,' said Tony Key, Ubisoft's marketing vice president. 'Do what the guy on the screen is doing and you're there. It'll score you based on the quality of your performance.'
The game - which will include songs from Jackson's back catalogue, including 'Billie Jean' and 'Beat It' - will roughly coincide with the November launch of a new album of unreleased Jackson recordings.
The announcement was made at Ubisoft's E3 press conference - although no footage from the game was shown, instead roping in dancers from Jackson's 'This Is It' tour to perform a number.
Versions of game will also be available for the Wii, DS and PSP.
It's not the only dance-centric game which will use Microsoft's Kinect, with Just Dance-alike Dance Central being developed by Guitar Hero developers Harmonix, and Konami preparing something called Dance Masters.
