And that's not laughter she's holding in.) The Sony-supplied duo are fairly robust, but they do have a tendency to conk out after they've been thrown, twirled and generally knocked about by grown men who think singing Suspicious Minds with a crap Elvis accent and doing the screechy backing themselves whilst pumping their loins will endear them to the girl sitting on the other side of the room with her hand over her mouth. (Mind you, at least we all got some replacement microphones out of it. And then grumbling about the lack of new features and the fact that old flaws hadn't been fixed. The track line-up looked tremendous on paper, but a few road tests later it simply had us reaching for the original again. Which is why SingStar Party (or "SS Party" - a truly inspired abbreviation, I'm sure you'll agree) was a big disappointment for us. (Man, imagine if there were no Christina Aguilera songs!)īut all of these faults are tolerable within the context of mass alcohol consumption, uninhibited comedy singing and 30 songs, the majority of which will suit just about anybody's vocal chords - or at the very least get them excited enough to prove otherwise. Presumably why there are no Christina Aguilera songs. Meanwhile the game fooled you by penalising you for any little flowery vocal embellishments. Player voices were slightly out of synch with singer voices on playback, you were expected to pick the right component of a harmony instinctively, which didn't always pan out, and it was possible to fool the game into giving out a high score simply by humming (or even blatantly singing the wrong lyrics - in our editor's case, a string of expletivesr) as long as you were in tune. It was so much its own thing, Sony reasoned, that it discouraged its official website writers from using the 'k' word in describing it. Karaoke has always been fun, but the way SingStar measured your performance basing its assessment on your ability to hold a tune rather than simply hit notes gave the karaoke a much-needed competitive edge. The original SingStar, which you should certainly own by now, definitely struck a chord when it came out last year. 2) Given the amount of alcohol required to truly enjoy it, it's arguably the only PS2 game with a subscription fee worth paying. 1) SingStar Popworld is a major return to form for Sony's competitive karaoke series. Leather-tongued, lead-headed, dizzy and worryingly positioned with my head in a pile of dirty socks, I awoke this morning surrounded by empty bottles and overstocked rubbish bins with three thoughts buzzing through my head.
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