SingStar Bundle

I could understand Guitar Hero and Rock Band not having any non Rock & Roll songs. But SingStar has no excuse with this kind of song selection since it is being marketed as a Karaoke Game.

No Motown, no classics, just bunch of songs that the guitar hero and rock band demographics might be familiar with.

I agree with the positive reviews here and the Mics do work well. My only beef is too few songs included at 30 and most of them were very so-so low on list for me. I had to spend $20.00 for another 13 songs or so to make the singing interesting to me.
They could also charge $.99 for the songs instead of $1.49 as well.

Firstly, I must say that the game itself is great. Hugely entertaining and fun to play. The major problem with it is lack of songs - or rather, lack of good songs.. The bundle itself comes with 30 songs, which, even if I liked all of them (which I don't) wouldn't last me more than a couple of hours of play time. After an hour or so, my husband and I exhausted all the included songs, so we signed online to download more. Out of over 200 songs, there were only about 20 he and I had ever even heard of, and of those, we liked less than 10. I am actually shocked by how poor the song selection is - no current pop artists (Christina, Justin) or R&B (Beyonce, Ciara) or popular bands (Maroon 5, Dave Matthews) - no Sting, John Mayer, Phil Colins, BeeGees, Black Eyed Peas, Norah Jones.. no Country music to speak of... and yet hundreds of songs by unknown artists? I've retired the game until a proper song selection is made available.

Another problem is the difference in volume between songs. One selection is barely audible and the next one is blowing out your ear drums, so you basically have to reset background and mic volume levels everytime you change songs.

I would suggest checking out the song selection online first. If you can find atleast 40 songs you'd be willing to spend $1.50 on, go ahead and buy the game. If not, I would wait.

This game is great fun! I have spent many hours with friends and family trying to become singing stars. I haven't found any cons at this time, but there is one thing you will not be able to avoid. If you have always thought you could sing, but maybe you really can't and your friends won't or can't tell you the truth...you may or may not want to purchase this item because it will not pull any punches. Your delusions of becoming the next American Idol could end in a matter of moments!!!

WARNING - ALTHOUGH THIS GAME ALLOWS THE SHARING OF RECORDED PERFORMANCES, IT IS NOT POSSIBLE TO PLAY LIVE WITH OTHER USERS OVER THE INTERNET.

This is a disclaimer that should, but deceptively is not, on the packaging for Singstar.

The concept is great, and I waited patiently for this game to finally make its debut. Only 30 sings? Well, OK, I thought. I can better customize my own catalog that way. So I bought a couple of songs. It was all downhill from there.

I have always enjoyed karaoke, and this game does a great job with that, because it actually lets you know how well you're doing. That's the only good thing I can say for it.

One of the first songs I bought was "American Pie," a great sing-along song in my opinion, to which I already knew all the words. Unfortunately, after paying my $1.49 plus tax, the song faded out and ended about halfway through. Very annoying, and unexplained.

I am a fan of Rock Band and Guitar Hero, and although the graphics in those games are a bit cartoonish and silly, the music videos in this game do not make up for what those games offer that Singstar does not. Rock Band and Guitar Hero have career modes, where you have to play songs and, in the case of Rock Band, set lists, in order to advance, always subject to increasing difficulty. It keeps the game interesting and challenging, especially with more than one player. Singstar has none of this. You sing the song, you check your scores. That's it. No story line, no plot. Nothing. A high score list, I guess. Big deal. Once you sing a song, there is NO reason to ever play it again, and with 30 songs, some of which you won't like (because no one would ever like the same 30 songs as another person), it gets old really, really fast.

So, I thought, the off-line play got played-out quicker than I had hoped. I shrugged a bit and decided to check out on-line play. Other games have interactive competition with other players, or cooperative play (I don't just limit this to Rock Band - Grand Theft Auto, Resistance, and MLB: The Show all have these modes, and that's just to name a few). Singstar, however, has none of this. After having my PS3 freeze for minutes at a time while I attempted to access the on-line aspect of the game, I found user galleries...and that was all. You can't play with, or against anyone not on the same system.

This game just doesn't try. It would be great for a karaoke party if you wanted to invest a couple hundred dollars to really build a great catalog of song choices. Or for the money you could actually get real karaoke equipment.

After half a night playing around with this game, I had tested just about every aspect - all one of them. This is a one-dimensional rip-off. I can't understand how anyone could give this a good review.

The failure of Sony to include songs and song packs released in Europe, where the game has been on the market with various types of included and downloadable music - is frustrating, but a minor annoyance compared to the complete lack of any sort of on-line playability.

Today's video game market is all about the ability to be interactive. The Internet is a huge part of the life of just about anyone who would buy a modern video game console. Singstar's makers pretend otherwise, when the ability to play a music-themed game with others around the world has become commonplace.

My best experience with this game was that I was able to talk a retailer into giving me a complete refund of the purchase price, due to the freezes while attempting to access the pathetic on-line galleries. You may not be so lucky. Do not, under any circumstances, buy this game.