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SingStar Next Gen with 2 Microphones (PS3) | 
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| From: Sony
Category: Video Games
List Price: £49.99
Buy New: £36.94
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Rating:  29 reviews
Sales Rank: 874
Platform: Playstation 3
Genre: singing-games
Media: Video Game
Age: 11 - 18 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.3
Dimensions (in): 13 x 9.8 x 3.5
UPC: 711719624097
EAN: 0711719624097
ASIN: B000FN9OEK
Release Date: December 7, 2007
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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Download your favourite tunes from just 0.99 per track
Blu-ray disc contains 30 original tracks, plus loads to download from SingStore
Upload pics, videos and performances to the in-game community My SingStar Online
Personalise your own playlists to suit the type of SingStar you are
Key Features: Stays true to the original SingStar experience with fully-licensed tracks and videos from the world's leading stars. The Blu-ray disc features 30 tracks by Gwen Stefani, OutKast, Coldplay, Pussycat Dolls, Razorlight and many more. Select and sing the songs you want from the SingStore. The SingStore will be open for business from December 7th with 44 songs to download, including great songs from the SingStar range plus new tracks from The Manic Street Preachers, Zutons & Depeche Mode. This is only the beginning as further songs will be added regularly from 17 December onwards to build the ultimate SingStar resource for every mood and every party. Continue to play whilst your favourite songs download in the background: now you can go to the SingStore and choose your very favorite SingStar songs to bring out the performer in you - from an RRP of 0.99 per track. The result is the ultimate playlist with absolutely no fillers! Customisable: new menu skins and backgrounds, plus new voice effects and wallpapers to make it your SingStar. Slick new look: the visual style has evolved with a new look that nonetheless remains true to SingStar's heritage and familiar to SingStar fans. Same game experience that everyone knows and loves: take centre stage and sing your heart out alone, get your group together or go head-to-head in competitive singing fun with all your mates. Enjoy brand new technology that enables you to reduce the volume of the original song - if you're feeling brave enough! My SingStar Online: get involved in the all new SingStar in-game community! Here users can upload & share their SingStar photos, videos, parties and performances. Build an online SingStar profile, rate videos, check out the latest and highest rated. Fun everywhere with www.singstargame.com:upload the highlights of that party onto singstargame.com and share the entertainment with friends and colleagues on your PC after the party is over. Rate performances, find out what's hot and what's not, and have fun!
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 If You Enjoy Karaoke, You'll Want SingStar May 26, 2008
Sam D (United Kingdom)
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
It's difficult to say whether the PS3 version of SingStar was worth the wait. After all, it is just a karaoke game, and there are plenty of those already. However, it's a very good karaoke game and one that should please anyone who enjoys serenading friends and strangers with unsolicited performances of popular songs, or indeed, having sing-offs against them to see who's top dog.
You can save some cash by using the microphones from the PlayStation 2 versions of SingStar if you've got them handy, but those of you hoping to get some extra mileage out of the Rock Band or any other USB mics are out of luck - they don't work. The game's tracklist is short but sweet, covering a wide variety of genres and decades. The 30 songs are performed by their original artists and include Radiohead, Weezer, The Rolling Stones, Coldplay, U2, OutKast, R.E.M., The Cardigans, and more.
Although the tracklist contains many popular karaoke staples, it's undeniably light on quantity, given that you can breeze through every song in the game in about two hours (and bearing in mind the range of songs on offer, you probably won't actually want to sing all of them). That's where the SingStore comes into play. For 99p you can purchase a song, along with its accompanying music video, and the game will seamlessly add it into the catalogue. At the time of this review there are 244 songs available from artists such as Arrested Development, KT Tunstall, Jamiroquai, Elvis, Run DMC, The Hives, Bonnie Tyler and lots, lots more. Additional tracks are also being added on a regular basis, with the next batch due to be released in 3 days' time.
The gameplay is pure karaoke, which means that you and your friends sing, either separately, in competition with each other or in duets. And, of course, you all laugh afterwards when you hear yourselves on playback. All the while, the game tracks your score based on how many correct notes you hit. There are three different difficulty settings, and you can sing the full song or an abbreviated version. This is great for parties or songs such as OutKast's "Hey Ya" that get repetitive. The lyrics are shown at the bottom of the screen while horizontal lines that represent pitch are displayed above. This display method works reasonably well if you're familiar with a song, but on large televisions the pitch and lyrics are far enough apart that it can be difficult to watch both at once. The game also handles songs with rapping or spoken words in a curious fashion. For example, during Faith No More's "Epic," the spoken parts are listed as "freestyle," and you can either say the words or do whatever you want because the game doesn't score freestyle sections. However, in the "rapping" portions of some other songs, the game shows a circular meter and scores you (rather inconsistently) based on your timing.
Whilst you can't go head-to-head with anyone online, SingStar does have a strong online component, at least from a community standpoint. You can create a profile to display your high scores, and upload audio clips of yourself crooning, along with 20-second video clips and photos if you have either the PS2 or PS3 EyeToy camera. You can even add effects and adjust your pitch before showcasing your "skills" with the world. These community features are interesting, and there do seem to be some people who are really into it, but the quality of the submissions is very variable, which is probably to be expected. Even the content that users have voted as the best often isn't very good, although the clip of a man in a full Chewbacca costume singing and dancing makes up for most of the terrible stuff.
A short tracklist and the fact that there are already a dozen other karaoke games out there are the only knocks against SingStar. The presentation is slick and intuitive, the community features are intriguing, despite the hit-and-miss quality of the submissions and the amount of downloadable content available to date is impressive as well. You might end up spending a pretty penny downloading new tunes, but you'll probably never need to buy another karaoke game again.
 the best singstar January 2, 2008
Teresa Godinho (Lisbon, Portugal)
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
The new singstar his the best.This new singstar allows you to download your favorite musics to the game and sing them.This game has lots of things to do so it has a great duracion.Thats why i think this his the best singstar ever.
party January 1, 2008
Alan Morton (Alan)
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
This is the singstar we all wanted, very good as you can now download new songs from the singstore only 62 at the moment but new ones get add ever week or so, the 400= ps2 back catalog should be out over a certain time and then new songs.
well worth the money tho with it cam with the bluetooth mic's but they souls be on the way son, bye now if you have had singstar games before
 The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle December 23, 2007
cayman (heart of darkness, central africa)
7 out of 9 found this review helpful
Why is this game so expensive? It's supposed to be next gen but comes with wired mic's and standard def music videos. It's been delayed for six months but there are about ten times less songs to download than promised. I thought track were going to be free to those that had already purchased the PS2 version. I feel like an idjit for waiting for this game, I could've got a PS2 version with a better selection of songs for half the price.
Dissapointed in Singstar Next Gen December 17, 2007
P. N. Trainer (UK)
9 out of 12 found this review helpful
I too ordered singstar back in june and the release was put back and put back until December (there's a surprise, just in time for xmas)! I too read the spec which stated Wireless Mics and free downloads, over 300 songs from the ps2 back catalogue and the online store wich you could download free from on the day of release.
We paid for the Microphone pack only because it was meant to be wireless Mics and we neednt have bothered (we already owned wired mics from the ps2 singstar games)and we also paid the extra money for express delivery to enable us to download free songs on the day of release. I could have saved half the price i paid as there were no wirelss mics and no free downloads.
I'm disgusted that we have all been mis informed and basically ripped off. I have bought nearly every Sinstar game to date so why do i want to pay a further 99p each to download songs I already own on my ps2 collection? I am glad to see that I'm not the only one who is dissapointed and hope Sony takes note.
One very annoyed Singstar Owner
Mrs G Trainer :-(
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