With the SingStore feature, download and purchase hundreds of songs and videos from across multiple genres to build your ideal SingStar playlist.A true interactive singing experience, where everyone is a star as they sing along with their favorite artists to the authentic videos of chart-topping tracks.Twisted Sister - We're Not Gonna Take It.Scissor Sisters - I Don't Feel Like Dancing.Robbie Williams and Nicole Kidman - Something Stupid.Kaptein Sabeltann-"Vi seiler var egen sjo" Revolverheld-"Ich werd' die Welt verandern" Whitney Houston-"I Want to Dance With Somebody"
The Thrills-"Santa Cruz (You're Not That Far)"
The Darkness-"I Believe in a Thing Called Love" Stereophonics-"The Bartender and The Thief" A perfect addition to the social gaming genre, SingStar will revolutionize the way you spend time with friends and family. Become a global star as you share your SingStar experiences with friends and the online SingStar community via captured video, audio and photos. SingStar PS3 allows you access to a catalog of hundreds of downloadable songs featuring the real artists and videos, via the PS3 online SingStore.
If not, consider the other Singstar options available.SingStar PS3 takes the successful interactive singing experience established with the multi-million selling global PS2 franchise to the next level with personalization and community taking center stage. If you like what you see, Singstar Abba is worth your money. Definitely a solid effort by Sony London.Īll in all the list of songs tells the tale. But it is the pitch recognition that really shines here, as the system does a solid job of recognizing every little change in pitch, even the slightest bit of vibrato. Naturally, because size limitation isn't a concern, the songs are all well represented and come through the speakers with pristine clarity. The audio is crystal clean, as you'd expect.
Lastly, most of the songs were also given their respective music videos, which are played in the background - a definite plus over Singstar's competition. Additionally, the colors are easy on the eyes, too. Unlike, say, Rock Band or Guitar Hero, you won't experience dizziness from following the scrolling notes, and that's a plus. Everything is neatly laid out, and the music bars scroll across the screen horizontally and smoothly. Visually, Singstar features a very simple interface. "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)" The entire soundtrack looks like this (songs with asterisks not in PS2 game): As I said earlier, unlike other SingStar games where I didn't like every song, finding something I don't like in SingStar Abba would be nit-picking. SingStar Abba boasts a collection of 35 tracks from a wide assortment of Abba's work. It's a very intuitive system, and figuring out how it works doesn't take any longer than 10 seconds. If you go flat, you'll get color below the bar likewise, if you go sharp, you'll get color above the bar. The object is to fill the bars on screen with accuracy by singing as accurately as possible. If you're wondering how SingStar games work, the game's superb voice recognition system will measure the tone and pitch of your voice, and instantly display your performance on the screen, as the vocal bars scroll along.
Because, karaoking is an activity that you don't normally do alone, feel free to call over another seven friends and compete in an eight-player activity. You can either play a practice session, or play for points and attempt to score the best record. Singstar uses a very clean user interface, one than even a five year old can navigate. If you're not familiar with SingStar, here's quick crash course. Additionally, the PS3 game is cross-compatible with other PS3 versions of SingStar, as well. Unlike some of the other SingStar games, SingStar Abba features mostly a wave of great tracks, as listed further down in the review. The compilation spans a large chunk of their career, but doesn't cover it all, so I'm sure some will be disappointed. The SingStar Abba compilation is essentially a collection of Abba's 25 greatest hits and if you're an avid Abba fan, chances are your favorites are here.