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Karaoke Revolution Specifics Unearthed

Posted by simoniker on from the furthering-the-avrilution-through-karaoke dept.

Thanks to GameSpy for their hands-on preview of Karaoke Revolution, Konami's PlayStation 2 title that uses the USB headset and "...requires you to match the rhythm and pitch for the vocals in a song" (although luckily for the tone-deaf among us: "Karaoke mode allows you to just kick it to a song without having to worry about performance.") This Harmonix-developed title, originally unveiled a couple of months back, sports "more than 35 tracks in all", from Mr.Mister to Avril Lavigne, and the previewer handily points out that "Not everyone can rock a guitar or a keyboard. Not everyone can dance... but almost all of us can sing (whether the results are appealing or not is another matter)."

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  1. Karoake Revolution Song List by cdneng2 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Karoake Revolution's song list is available here, which I've shown below:

    Addicted
    I'm Coming Out
    All You Wanted
    It's End of the World As We Know It
    Are You Happy Now?
    Kiss Me
    Believe
    Ladies' Night
    Billie Jean
    Like a Virgin
    Bizarre Love Triangle
    One Week
    Broken Wings
    Red Red Wine
    Celebration
    Save Tonite
    Chain of Fools
    Science Genius Girl
    Complicated
    She Talks To Angels
    Crawling in the Dark
    Smooth Criminal
    Don't Know Why
    Son of a Preacher Man
    Every Morning
    The Power of Love
    Everything You Want
    Waiting For Tonight
    Girls Just Want To Have Fun
    When a Man Loves a Woman
    Hey Jealousy
    Wind Beneath my Wings
    Hit Me With Your Best Shot
    You Really Got Me
    How You Remind Me
    You're the One That I Want

    I think the success of this game will mostly be determined by the selection of songs available. Everyone's taste is different, so I'd question the appeal of the songs to teenagers. It almost seems like the song selection is specifically targetted to GenXers (us old farts that are 25-35) that like to reminisce.

    It'd be nice to be able to pop in a CD of your favorite song, and Karoake to any of your favorites. Most ghetto blasters and bookshelf systems had that function built in for free during the Karoake fad, so I couldn't see how difficult it may have been for them to do have done this to the PS2 game version.

    Regardless, the last time I karoaked, I was trashed... and now that you can do this in the privacy of your own home, it seems like a pretty good bet for a party game. I just have to remember to have alcohol around so that I can blame something for my terrible singing.