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Karaoke Revolution Gets Freq-ed Out

Posted by simoniker on from the bad-singing-won't-get-you-anywhere dept.

Thanks to the Gaming-Age forum regulars for pointing to a new official site for Konami's forthcoming PS2 title, Karaoke Revolution, including new screenshots, which says you can "Turn your PlayStation 2 into a high-end, interactive karaoke machine with Karaoke Revolution." This E3-announced title is interesting in a number of ways - it uses the PS2 USB headset for singing into, it seems to recognize voice pitch and timing, then judge you on it, and it's developed by beat-game junkies and Frequency and Amplitude creators, Harmonix, who have an excellent fansite devoted to their games at Freq.com.

15 comments

  1. Hooray by CheeseMonkey · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Amplitude and Frequency are two of the greatest games I've ever played. Absolutely addicting.

    I can't sing for crap, but I'll probably buy this game and make an ass of myself in front of friends and family. Check out Amplitude if you've never played it- it's WELL worth a look. Even if you don't like the rythm genre, and/or scott at the psycho DDR kids, it's really worth a look.

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    1. Re:Hooray by Masem · · Score: 1
      Having a few friends who didn't play Frequency before Amplitude, I'd suggest skipping Freq and trying Amplitude out first, as the latter is much more polished (save for a nasty net-play bug) and is generally a better game. Of course, you could always pick up Freq on the cheap ($20 easily), then move to Amp, and get the benefits of both.

      If this was anyone besides Harmonix working on KE, I'd be worried about it as being something on the order of Brittney's music title for the PS2, but Harmonix knows what it's doing in the music genre (a few members are (re)mixers themselves, not just programmers), and will know how to make this game addictive.

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    2. Re:Hooray by schulzdogg · · Score: 1

      Just to let you know: Amplitude has been on sale at Target stores for $18 dollars for the last week.

  2. Good Marketing by BigNumber · · Score: 1

    This is good marketing if it catches on. You can continue to publish new versions with different songs (similar to DDR and You Don't Know Jack).

    Country Music version anyone?

  3. Great! by emo+boy · · Score: 3, Funny

    American Idol for the ps2. Where's Simon when you need him?

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    1. Re:Great! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You don't need Simon. Anyone can just post to Usenet if they want to be insulted.

    2. Re:Great! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Actually, there is an American Idol game coming out for the PS2, IIRC. A crappy rhythm-action game. (As opposed to a -good- rhythm-action game like Amplitude...)

  4. Karaoke making a comeback? by mh_tang · · Score: 1
    This must be one of the signs of imminent apocalypse. TV shows (Americal Idol, Fame, even Star Search is back on network prime time!), karaoke bars, and now video games?

    Do we really need to hear geeks trying to imitate Mariah Carey?

  5. For the ladies... by TexTex · · Score: 1

    Konami snagged Jennifer Love Hewitt's singing talents(!?) to present this game at E3...so at least they've got an attractive marketing angle.

    Plus, anything that boosts the chances of women wanting to have anything to do with my PS2 can't be a bad thing.

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    1. Re:For the ladies... by cubedbee · · Score: 1

      I've seen Jennifer Love Hewitt's "talents", and they don't have anything to do with singing.

    2. Re:For the ladies... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      ZING

  6. Dream Audition by trajano · · Score: 2, Informative

    There is a game similar to this called Dream Audition (though its Japanese songs). I was wondering if it has support to use the microphone controller used by Dream Auditionl, which is a USB microphone controller.

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  7. Breaking Naming Conventions by KU_Fletch · · Score: 1

    I mean cmon, at least call it Karaoke Karaoke Revolution. Then we can sit back and watch the KKR Remixes flow in.

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  8. shocking by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Too bad you can't use the xbox shock controller with the karoake game. That'd be one way of stopping some awful singer...