SingStar Amped

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Keen on establishing a foothold in the American market for its SingStar Karaoke Franchise, Sony has release SingStar 80s and SingStar Amped. With the former you can sing your favorite songs from the 1980s while with the later you sing classic and contemporary music.

The features of these games are identical in terms of the set and presentation, to the last two SingStar releases, Pop and Rocks. This means that the are both serviceable, no frills karaoke packages, with the only difference being the two being the song lists, which are top notch.

With the name, SingStar Rocks you would expect to have a hard-core karaoke experience, but the lineup of Gloria Gaynor and Elton John is baffling. SingStar Amped track list is more appealing, because most of the artist can be describe rockers, with notable names such as Audioslave, Blink 182, Alice in Chains, Cheap Pries, Pearl Jam, The Ramones, Radio Head Seppenwolf, ZZ Top and Sublime to name a few.

It seems like a lot of though were put into the lineup of artist for the track list of SingStar Amped, because it contains classics such as Steppenwolf’s, Born to be wild, and More than a feeling from Boston’s. Hits like Best of you from the Foo Fighters, and Nirvana’s Come as you are and you sure are in for an amazing time.

If you have never owned or played a SingStar game before, all of the previous releases of this Playstation 2 Video Game menu is identical and it allows you to play individual songs for points, and it also offers a multi-player capability for as many a eight players, while engaging in competitive gameplay.

Included are song medleys, score attacks and challenges such as pass the microphone. You can also record your performances playback or review, and you can make yourself sound like a robot using vocal filters. Just like the previous releases, the are music video of the various artists performing as you sing their songs, but you can also use the Eye Toy camera if you want to see yourself as you dance to the lyrics.

Included in the Amped’s packages are a pair of microphones and a USB adapter. Each game has 30 games on its track list, which is a reasonable deal. This Playstation 2 Video Game is likely to become antiquated with the soon to be release feature rich and online enabled PS3. So for the moment you can enjoy all that SingStar Amped have to offer you.

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