besting singing game

[JoPh]

i see 360 has lips and ps3 has singstar?

is one better than the other. the soon to be wife wants a singing game.....

 

[tfinch2]

Rockband or Guitar Hero

 

[Baked]

Singstar has better reviews than Lips, has a much bigger library, you can also download and upload music videos if you have the PS3 Eye accessory. Oh, and the starter bundle for Singstar is cheaper too.

Originally posted by: tfinch2
Rockband or Guitar Hero

That's like telling people to get a motorcycle when they ask what road bike they should get for commute.

 

[Queasy]

Singstar is a long established franchise so it currently has the better overall features and presentation.

Lips is MS's first effort with a couple of innovative features (the microphones, song import) and seems to be fun judging from reviews but doesn't have the polish and feature set that Singstar has. The song import feature also feels incomplete currently. Lips is adding songs to its library via DLC.

 

[JoPh]

why is singstar so much better than lips? the wifey likes the track list better on lips. but i dunno. im trying to read the reviews now.

 

[erwos]

Originally posted by: JoPh
why is singstar so much better than lips? the wifey likes the track list better on lips. but i dunno. im trying to read the reviews now.

What I've read is that Lips only shows you three or four words ahead, which basically makes doing songs you don't know impossible.

I'd give some thought to Rock Band, too, but if it's pure karaoke you're after, SingStar is your best bet at this time.

 

[JoPh]

i have rock band but she is more a fan of the poppy music.... shes not to into rock songs. the track list to lips almost sums here music taste perfectly. top 40 poppy.. ill have to browse the d/l for rb2

 

[erwos]

"Pop Band" - quick, trademark it!

 

[Aikouka]

I've actually been looking into this as well and one thing that's been bothering me is when I tried to look up the list for Singstar on Wikipedia, it has three columns... one of them is "Removed"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...3)#American_track_list

Does that mean that they removed Gorillaz for Coldplay? And who could remove Twisted Sister!?!?!?

 

[bl4ckfl4g]

I've tried them all and at this point I'd say

1 Rockband is the best even just for singing imo

2. Singstar because it has a better selection currently than LIPS

3. Lips cuz it is new and doesn't have that much DLC yet. Although I like the interface better and the microphones are awesome.

 

[Aikouka]

Isn't it also true that you can't fail out in Lips? The mics are also wireless from what I've seen.

 

[Queasy]

Originally posted by: Aikouka
Isn't it also true that you can't fail out in Lips? The mics are also wireless from what I've seen.

Yep, you can't fail out in Lips. The mics are wireless and motion-sensing for you to do certain moves to get multiplier bonuses a la Guitar Hero.

 

[JoPh]

Originally posted by: Aikouka
I've actually been looking into this as well and one thing that's been bothering me is when I tried to look up the list for Singstar on Wikipedia, it has three columns... one of them is "Removed"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...3)#American_track_list

Does that mean that they removed Gorillaz for Coldplay? And who could remove Twisted Sister!?!?!?

if thats the track list for singstar and those songs are removed that play list sucks.....

 

[abaez]

While I read Singstar is good, the thing lips has going for it is that you can plug in your zune or ipod and karaoke to any mp3 you have on it. So regardless of the songs that come with the game, you have thousands of songs available to you.

Of course, the lyrics don't come on screen (the game has some sort of music beat detecting stuff to assist what to show on screen), but that doesn't really matter when everyone has had a few drinks. If you have your tags correct you could print out the lyrics though. It's an extra step, but worth it to some if you want to sing any song you want.

Of course I prefer rb2, but the selection is limited, and the girls singing hate doing songs they don't know and/or are hard. Five hours of no doubt and weezer gets boring.

 

[Queasy]

It should be worth mentioning that the a patch has been released for the PS3 to make PS2 Singstar games work. You have to start with PS3 Singstar and then swap out the disks to get the PS2 Singstar songs.

 

[Aikouka]

Just to make sure, I assume that the singstar mics are the same between the PS2 and the PS3 since they're just USB? My little brother plays these and already has Singstar for the PS2, so instead of spending money on the Singstar bundle, I could get Singstar (game only) and Singstar ABBA (game only) (my mom likes ABBA so maybe she'd play for a song or two before getting embarrassed ).

 

[Queasy]

MS just announced the upcoming Lips DLC. Looks like they are planning 3-4 songs every week. Each song is $2 (160 MS pesos).

December 19
* "Over My Head (Cable Car)" ? The Fray
* "Every Little Step" ? Bobby Brown
* "Prisoner of Society" ? The Living End
* "Virtual Insanity" ? Jamiroquai

December 26
* "New Shoes" ? Paolo Nutini
* "What's Love Got To Do With It" ? Tina Turner
* "What Is Love?" ? Haddaway

January 2
* "Where Did Our Love Go" ? The Supremes
* "Let's Groove" ? Earth, Wind and Fire
* "Be Good Johnny" ? Men At Work
* "Somethin' Stupid" ? Robbie Williams and Nicole Kidman

January 9
* Superstar ? Jamelia
* People are People ? Depeche Mode
* Suddenly I See ? KT Tunstall

 

[JoPh]

songs should be like .99 like itunes or something. or atleast someone should start if u spend the $2.oo give me a drm mp3 file too.

that could reason the $2 per song. just my thought.

 

[Queasy]

Originally posted by: JoPh
songs should be like .99 like itunes or something. or atleast someone should start if u spend the $2.oo give me a drm mp3 file too.

that could reason the $2 per song. just my thought.

Well, you're getting the song, the lyrics, and the video on songs that have a video. The pricing is in line with Rock Band and Guitar Hero DLC and 50 cents (40 MS points) more than DLC from Karaoke Revolution: American Idol.