Think you can sing? Well, now’s your chance to prove it.
The latest release in the PS2’s karaoke series has you centre stage at a rock concert. Air guitar anyone?
The idea of the game is pretty simple – even a doped up rock star would get it.
Just pick a track and sing the words on screen. Once you’ve finished, the program uses some behind the scenes wizardry to analyse your voice and give you a score based on your performance.
There’s 30 tracks, including videos, and it’s your job to belt out the tunes and then dive the bottles thrown at you afterwards.
They say:
Gamespot: “If you already own the peripheral mics and you like rock music, then SingStar Rocks! is a worthwhile budget purchase, but apart from the genre shift, Rocks! doesn't have much to offer in the way of new content.”
Eurogamer: “Why, on a compilation where the criteria is, quite clearly, 'Rock' do we get limp ballardeering by Keane and The Scorpions?”
PSW Magazine: “This is a party game, for when you're drunk and have staggered back to yours from the pub with the local alcoholics in tow - when the welcoming 'Woo Hoo' of Blur's Song 2 is all you're fit to sing.”
We say:
The main problem with games like this is down to the track listing. If you don’t like the tunes built in, you can’t do anything to change that.
But with SingStar Rocks, Sony has gone for a reasonable range of tracks, most of them with fairly wide appeal.
Songs include Coldplay’s “Speed of Sound”, Queen’s “Don’t Stop Me Now”, The Scorpions’ “Wind of Change” and Thin Lizzy’s “The Boys are Back In Town”.
If you’ve bought a SingStar game in the past, you’ll find no real features have been added to this, other than different tracks included.
But if you’re new to the series and open to showing off your talents (or lack of them) to your friends and family, you can’t go far wrong with this.
FORMATS
PS2
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Sun 16 Apr 2006 at 10:49am
