I can understand if it was a 10-20 song track pack disc like the ACDC Live Rock Band disc, but to classify this full priced retail game as such is confusing.
![]() Karaoke S Karma Chameleon Full Priced RetailWhile being a solid karaoke-only game overall, though, it still lags just a couple steps behind Sonys stellar SingStar series on PS3. Karaoke S Karma Chameleon For Free With EveryMicrosoft is also hopping on the anti-used game market bandwagon with a code to download one of three five song track packs for free with every new copy of the game for a total of 45 tracks. The soundtrack is spread out across many genres, and while not every song will be a hit for everyone, I was pleased to see some of my karaoke favorites included like Karma Chameleon, U Cant Touch This, and Everybody Wants to Rule the World to name a few. Users can also swap discs with the original Lips for access to its 40 songs, and while I appreciate the option I would have preferred the ability to import the Lips soundtrack into Number One Hits for a small fee just like the compatibility between Rock Band and Rock Band 2. The wireless mics work well and accurately fill the pitch meters, and does a great job at recognizing and rewarding bonuses for vibrato, technique and pitch. The Star Stream meter is back, and tilting the mic activates it for better bonuses and multipliers. If you and a friend are rotating between singing, then the gamer on the couch can still be involved by pressing buttons to activate sound effects throughout each performance. The mini-games from before return too, so if you could not get enough of the co-operative Time Bomb game or the competitive Vocal Fighters mini-game, then prepare to experience them again in all their glory. The Lips microphones have motion control features, and during songs your avatar will sporadically appear performing a motion with the microphone. Simply mimic the motion within a limited time window, and your avatar will quickly fade off of the screen in recognition. I first dismissed this as a stupid and needless feature, but it grew on me because of how damn goofy and cute my avatar looks strutting his stuff. This is also the first disc based Xbox 360 title to support unlockable Avatar awards. It is not a lot to throw a party over, but it is marginally gratifying to earn some new Avatar clothing and not have to pay for it. I was hoping for a somewhat meaningful career mode like in the American Idol series, but instead will have to settle with the returning ranking system where the more medals earned with each song adds to your grand total and gradually increases your overall karaoke rank. Freestyle mode returns and allows players to plug in their MP3 device of choice and sing songs from their own personal library. As before importing songs from an MP3 device is a cool feature in theory, but only if you remember all the lyrics of each and every song in your personal collection because they do not display on screen. SingStar debuted some innovative use of camera support by recording performances and uploading them online. I was hoping iNiS would have been inspired to include a similar feature in Number One Hits, but it looks like I will have to keep my fingers cross for its inclusion in the next Lips title. ![]() Lips has just under 150 songs for download as of this writing, which is roughly a third of the DLC available on the SingStore. Also baffling to me is why Microsoft treated this sequel as add-on criteria for gamerscore with only 250 gamerscore unique to Number One Hits.
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