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Just get it...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: June 10, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I am really picky about my games. I only own one COD4, greatest game ever. I also loved Uncharted Drake's Fortune, but I rented it. Both games are 10's in my opinion.

I have played them all including Rainbow Six 2, Assasin's Creed, GTA4 all are subpar 7 ratings and below. This singstar game I'd rank an 8. Could be a 9 with a better playlist. With online battling it would be a 10. There is so much multimedia features in this game you will definitly get your fun and $ out of this game.

They really should sell the game with a blank playlist give them a song allowance, and get the fans into the habit of buying songs from the Singstore. I don't care too much about the online battling. I'm such a closet singer I'd be embarrased there as well.

Downsides: Playlist, Better track of scores for each song you complete, leveling system would increase the fun.

Everything else is a fantastic strength. People that are complaining about mics, volume, etc, are beyond nitpicking and it's unfair and unwarranted.

Good game, not great songs

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: June 11, 2008
Author: Amazon User

The game itself is very good. It is easy to understand, and pretty fun the play. The song list isn't as good as I initially thought. Many of the songs really aren't good for karaoke and most of them are by male artists.

I have not yet purchased any additional songs for $1.50 each.

The single best karaoke game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: June 21, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Singstar is an excellent party game, since it can split any song up into a duet, and there's a battle mode too. The original music videos (or montages for songs that have no existing videos) play as you sing, so it's fun to watch even when not playing. They are mostly presented in grainy standard-definition, but still fun to watch.

The online features, besides the very well-organized store (which lets you download songs in the background as you play), are extremely nice for a PS3 game. In-game messaging and friends list notifications are just the tip of the iceberg. Recording and sharing your performances using the PS2 or PS3 Eyetoy are where it's at.

For singing, this game is much better than Rock Band. The song doesn't end if you sing poorly, so anybody can sing just to have fun. The selection of songs includes non-rock music too. Dual microphones makes for great singing scenarios. Non-gamers will appreciate music videos more than Rock Band's 3D concert performances as well.

No On-Line Playability Whatsoever - Don't Waste Your Money

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: July 01, 2008
Author: Amazon User

WARNING - ALTHOUGH THIS GAME ALLOWS THE SHARING OF RECORDED PERFORMANCES, IT IS NOT POSSIBLE TO PLAY LIVE WITH OTHER USERS OVER THE INTERNET.

This is a disclaimer that should, but deceptively is not, on the packaging for Singstar.

The concept is great, and I waited patiently for this game to finally make its debut. Only 30 sings? Well, OK, I thought. I can better customize my own catalog that way. So I bought a couple of songs. It was all downhill from there.

I have always enjoyed karaoke, and this game does a great job with that, because it actually lets you know how well you're doing. That's the only good thing I can say for it.

One of the first songs I bought was "American Pie," a great sing-along song in my opinion, to which I already knew all the words. Unfortunately, after paying my $1.49 plus tax, the song faded out and ended about halfway through. Very annoying, and unexplained.

I am a fan of Rock Band and Guitar Hero, and although the graphics in those games are a bit cartoonish and silly, the music videos in this game do not make up for what those games offer that Singstar does not. Rock Band and Guitar Hero have career modes, where you have to play songs and, in the case of Rock Band, set lists, in order to advance, always subject to increasing difficulty. It keeps the game interesting and challenging, especially with more than one player. Singstar has none of this. You sing the song, you check your scores. That's it. No story line, no plot. Nothing. A high score list, I guess. Big deal. Once you sing a song, there is NO reason to ever play it again, and with 30 songs, some of which you won't like (because no one would ever like the same 30 songs as another person), it gets old really, really fast.

So, I thought, the off-line play got played-out quicker than I had hoped. I shrugged a bit and decided to check out on-line play. Other games have interactive competition with other players, or cooperative play (I don't just limit this to Rock Band - Grand Theft Auto, Resistance, and MLB: The Show all have these modes, and that's just to name a few). Singstar, however, has none of this. After having my PS3 freeze for minutes at a time while I attempted to access the on-line aspect of the game, I found user galleries...and that was all. You can't play with, or against anyone not on the same system.

This game just doesn't try. It would be great for a karaoke party if you wanted to invest a couple hundred dollars to really build a great catalog of song choices. Or for the money you could actually get real karaoke equipment.

After half a night playing around with this game, I had tested just about every aspect - all one of them. This is a one-dimensional rip-off. I can't understand how anyone could give this a good review.

The failure of Sony to include songs and song packs released in Europe, where the game has been on the market with various types of included and downloadable music - is frustrating, but a minor annoyance compared to the complete lack of any sort of on-line playability.

Today's video game market is all about the ability to be interactive. The Internet is a huge part of the life of just about anyone who would buy a modern video game console. Singstar's makers pretend otherwise, when the ability to play a music-themed game with others around the world has become commonplace.

My best experience with this game was that I was able to talk a retailer into giving me a complete refund of the purchase price, due to the freezes while attempting to access the pathetic on-line galleries. You may not be so lucky. Do not, under any circumstances, buy this game.

Very entertaining

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 29, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Will supplement to what other reviewer's have said. Bought this for my wife. I have Rock band. Never owned a SingStar title before. If you like Karaoke this is the game for you. Much more difficult than the Rock Band vocals part, especially rapping which is tough. Resolution of videos varies from artist to artist, depending on resolution on which it was recorded originally (thus older videos or indie bands will have lesser resolution videos). Game with bundle brings 30 songs from different genres. Each additional song on the online store is $1.49. For those of you that are multilingual you can have access to some songs (limited still) in your language by switching languange. Right now the store has about 250 something songs (excluding the multilingual thing I said) with some known bands and some I have never heard off. Adding the PS Eye adds another dimension to the game. You can record audio only and video tracks and export them to a media stick. The online features are also very interesting. Quality of music is very good. Some people have complained of the volume of the vocal tracks, which I don't find so distracting. I seem to get more distracted by the videos (especially the Blink 182 video, which in some parts i just burst out laughing.) I liked the vocals for Rock Band more but I have only played Sing Star this twice. I think its a great party game provided your guests know some of the songs. I have heard that they will bring some new songs every so often on the store. Rock Band owners: Very little overlap in the songs in Rock Band and Sing Star!

Karaoke Perfection

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 01, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Like other reviewers have said, the microphones are really well made. They have a good weight to them, and sound really nice. The game itself is loads of fun. I have only played a few other Karaoke games, but none of them are so well designed and fun to play. The interface is fantastic and feels a lot like Playstation's redesigned store.

The game seems a lot more accurate about recognizing tones and everything with the one notable exception being the "rap" mode, which I have had a little trouble with on the Outkast, and Faith No More tunes. It is probably fine if you're a little better at the game than I am.

The songs that the game starts with are amazing with some of my favorite bands gracing the list: Weezer, Pixies, Smashing Pumpkins, Blind Melon and Scissor Sisters to name a few.

The online integration is great and allows you do download new songs and video combos for $1.50 each. You can also upload videos, pictures, and songs that you've sung onto the community section for others to see.

If you like Karaoke games, or do a lot of entertaining this game is a must.

It's worth the money

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 05, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I really like the original music video. It's only $50 and worth the money. Thinking about buying eyetoy for it. It's fun!

Pretty cool

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 27, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Basically a vocal version of Guitar Hero. That's the best way I can think of to describe it. I'm not sure why they made 2 versions(US and UK). The UK version has some songs the US version doesn't and the reverse is true. If you connect to a modem you can download songs, they are gradually adding new ones so I think it will even out eventually. I find it really worth buying, especially if you have the playstation eye.

An Ace of a social game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 28, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game builds on top of the previous generation for the PS2, with better graphics, video, camera capabilities and online support. Some improvements could include wireless mics and better selection of songs out of the box.

My favorite addition is being able to purchase songs online so that you don't have to pay for a lot of songs that you don't want as opposed to buying genre based titles as it's predecessor had you do.

Overall a great and fun gaming experience for a family or a party.

Kudos to PS3

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 30, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I would have rated this game a five but for two things.The first being the fact that I received the bundle with a faulty Mic set, the other being that the songs given on the Singstore needs to have more variety in terms of Genre and Billboard hits on a weekly basis.OIther than this the game is a lot of fun especially when gathered with friends and family. I can guarantee any fun loving family will love this game and will sing the night away.My first night playing this and the enjoyment my family had has made the game worth every cent.

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