![]() You'll still want to use a microphone if you're fussy about getting accurate SingStar scores. "But there's nothing in the immediate future that's going to change there," Bruce said. Shops are essential for shifting SingStar microphones, and inviting other devices to the party doesn't mean Sony has given up iterating on official SingStar kit. "It was stronger on PlayStation 2 I guess it's fair to say." Chris Bruce, senior producer "We'll always be looking at opportunities that come along, and if we think we've got a great opportunity to bring something to market then we'll definitely be doing that." But there is "nothing I could possibly mention at the moment" in development now. So is this the end of SingStar in a box in a shop? "It was stronger on PlayStation 2 I guess it's fair to say." "We want to go back and recreate the success that we had on PlayStation 2, for sure," Bruce said. But it didn't have the same impact on PlayStation 3, and karaoke was usurped by dancing games as the nation's favourite party pursuit. SingStar, along with games like Buzz!, opened PlayStation 2 to the masses and sold by the bucket load. "It's really just the next step to broaden the audience and to get it out to everyone and get everyone singing again," senior producer Chris Bruce told Eurogamer. It's Sony's way of opening SingStar up to the masses. As will official PlayStation Bluetooth headsets and non-SingStar branded USB microphones. But if you do have those they will still work. Support for PlayStation Eye as a microphone has been added, so you won't need a traditional microphone peripheral to play. You can play your old PS2 and PS3 SingStar discs through the game - those catalogues of songs aren't lost to you. Any songs you've already bought will be imported and added to your free-to-play SingStar song selection.Ī selection of minute-long demo songs will be available to try for free. SingStar will be a free download but won't come with any songs - those you buy at the SingStore (prices won't change). This should hit either today or tomorrow. The free SingStar XMB application will appear in the next PS3 firmware update. Random selection of five excerpts from the disc.Yes SingStar is going free-to-play: Sony has confirmed it and I've interviewed the senior producer. Under Pressure, One Vision, Fat Bottomed Girls, Another One Bites The Dust, We Are The Champions We Will Rock You, Bohemian Rhapsody, I Want It All, Tie Your Mother Down, Don't Stop Me Now The US edition added 'Save Me' but lost 'Bicycle Race'. The menus feature an instrumental version of 'Breakthru', but within the actual game itself, the normal album and single versions are used. For most songs you have to sing along to the lead vocals but there are four songs where there are two vocal tracks - 'Bicycle Race', 'Bohemian Rhapsody' and 'Play The Game' allow you to sing Freddie's vocals or backing vocals, while 'Under Pressure' allows you to sing Freddie's vocals or David Bowie's vocals. There are three different skill levels, and all songs can be played in their entirety, while some (not all) can also be played as shortened clips. I have been unable to check the Playstation 3 game, but it is likely that the medleys feature a different range of songs to reflect these five additional tracks. The Playstation 3 game features the same 20 Queen tracks, plus five bonus tracks, and presumably medleys too. Four of the medleys are fixed, whereas one is random and therefore different every time you play it. Each medley features excerpts from five tracks, with the excerpts ranging from around 15 to 30 seconds. the tracks don't segue into one another), instead they are separate clips which fade in and out to audience noise before the next one starts. These aren't proper medleys as such (i.e. The Playstation 2 game features 20 original Queen tracks, plus five medleys. The game is for between one to eight players and needs a Singstar microphone to play (the videos won't actually play without one). The game features the original promo videos to Queen tracks, with lyrics onscreen, and the object of the game is to sing along, scoring points according to your timing and which notes you sing. ![]() 'Singstar Queen' was released on 20 March 2009 on both the Playstation 2 and Playstation 3 formats.
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