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The Singstar series is really starting to make a name for itself. While I still prefer the Karaoke Revolution series if only for the ability to turn down the master track, I have to admit that the incredible song list this series is starting to crank out is making me warm up to it. If you’ve played Singstar or any style of singing game like it you know the score. Pick a game play mode, find a song, and sing along. Depending on how accurate you are in pitch and accuracy to the timing of the song, your score increases, and the person with the best score wins. Think of Singstar as a Karaoke machine of sorts that keeps score. Sure you can just choose to sing along without the pressure of score keeping, but come on…what’s the fun in that?
What Singstar does differently from the others on the market is you aren’t taking on a persona and watching the polygonal character belt away on screen. In Singstar, you sing along while the actual music video is playing in the background. No cover bands here, what you get are the genuine artist performing the song on screen in front of you. In the case of Singstar 80’s, you get the songs and videos from MTV’s heyday when they actually played music videos 24 hours a day. (I want my MTV!) The song list is great as you get 30 big named songs from the 80’s from superstars who went on to make great careers, to one hit wonders typically from the UK. Don’t believe me, check this list out: Billy Joel-Uptown Girl, Cyndi Lauper- Time after Time, Dexy’s Midnight Runners- Come on Eileen, Duran Duran- Rio, Europe- The Final Countdown, Madness- Our House, Madonna- Material Girl, R.E.M.- Stand, Run DMC- It’s Tricky, Survivor- Eye of the Tiger, Twisted Sister- We’re not Gonna Take it, Wham!- Wake me up before you Go Go, and many more! You have a variety of game modes to enjoy as well. You can go solo and try and beat your own high score, you have Pass the Mic party games, Team Games, and of course the aforementioned Freestyle where points don’t make a lick of difference. You can even record your performance and play it back along with a variety of sound effects to add to your golden voice. If you have an Eye Toy you can watch yourself on the TV rather than the music video if you wish, but who would want to, right? Along with Singstar Amped, this makes 4 titles in a short time for this series which is a big plus for fans. Top it off with a PS3 version coming soon complete with downloadable songs and Sony’s singing franchise just might have legs yet. If only they would hear my plea and allow me to turn down the master track.
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