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TonyTone · 10-01-2007, 12:48 PM

Aaron--it goes w/o saying that Singstar's main--if not only--selling point is that the songs include the original music videos (where available--there is no accompanying music video for "Eye Of The Tiger") and original vocals/music, vs. the synthesized music and vocals not sung by the original artist/group w/ KR. The basic gameplay options are available--solo, duet, solo/duet karaoke-only (i.e., no scoring); three scoring/difficulty levels; abbreviated and regular-length song version option; and medley gameplay. I think there are one or two other gameplay options (one of which is some sort of "rap meter" type game play); also, unlike KR there is no character customizing options since SS does not offer you to select a "character" to represent you during scoring competitions. It does make decent use of the Eye Toy camera--you can set it so that it uses live video in place of the original music video; you can also use it to take a picture of yourself to use as a sort of picture ID for identifying high score entries.

I will say one thing about SS '80s--for whatever reason, it is less forgiving than KR when it comes to pitch accuracy, even when playing in "Easy" scoring mode; either that, or the SS mics are way too sensitive when it comes to picking up/detecting pitch--if your pitch wavers even just a wee bit or if you can't hold certain pitches long enough, SS will pick it up and score you accordingly...KR is a bit more forgiving in that regard...at least in "Easy" mode.

There is one nice SS feature that I don't believe KR offers (I'm not sure about KR-AI, but the previous KR versions didn't have it)--it can play back your singing performance...meaning that you can listen for yourself as to how good (or, how bad) your singing was.

Coincidentally--I was playing KR-AI just yesterday; I achieved some more unlockables, to the point that the only unlockables remaining are the duet Platinum record unlockable (easily achievable--just gotta get my wife to do a duet w/ me) and the 20/30/40 Diamond records unlockables, which is pretty much impossible for me--to get Diamond on a song you have achieve a perfect score for the song...and unless you know each and every song inside and out, AND have a really good vocal range--getting Diamond on all 40 songs is very difficult (I've gotten only 12 Diamonds).

10-01-2007, 12:48 PM	#7 of 8
TonyTone Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Local Time: 03:55 AM Local Date: 09-08-2008 Posts: 661 tonester697	Re: SingStar '80s Aaron--it goes w/o saying that Singstar's main--if not only--selling point is that the songs include the original music videos (where available--there is no accompanying music video for "Eye Of The Tiger") and original vocals/music, vs. the synthesized music and vocals not sung by the original artist/group w/ KR. The basic gameplay options are available--solo, duet, solo/duet karaoke-only (i.e., no scoring); three scoring/difficulty levels; abbreviated and regular-length song version option; and medley gameplay. I think there are one or two other gameplay options (one of which is some sort of "rap meter" type game play); also, unlike KR there is no character customizing options since SS does not offer you to select a "character" to represent you during scoring competitions. It does make decent use of the Eye Toy camera--you can set it so that it uses live video in place of the original music video; you can also use it to take a picture of yourself to use as a sort of picture ID for identifying high score entries. I will say one thing about SS '80s--for whatever reason, it is less forgiving than KR when it comes to pitch accuracy, even when playing in "Easy" scoring mode; either that, or the SS mics are way too sensitive when it comes to picking up/detecting pitch--if your pitch wavers even just a wee bit or if you can't hold certain pitches long enough, SS will pick it up and score you accordingly...KR is a bit more forgiving in that regard...at least in "Easy" mode. There is one nice SS feature that I don't believe KR offers (I'm not sure about KR-AI, but the previous KR versions didn't have it)--it can play back your singing performance...meaning that you can listen for yourself as to how good (or, how bad) your singing was. Coincidentally--I was playing KR-AI just yesterday; I achieved some more unlockables, to the point that the only unlockables remaining are the duet Platinum record unlockable (easily achievable--just gotta get my wife to do a duet w/ me) and the 20/30/40 Diamond records unlockables, which is pretty much impossible for me--to get Diamond on a song you have achieve a perfect score for the song...and unless you know each and every song inside and out, AND have a really good vocal range--getting Diamond on all 40 songs is very difficult (I've gotten only 12 Diamonds). Last edited by TonyTone : 10-01-2007 at 12:55 PM.