Difficulty:

Easy

Time Spent:

10 Hours or Less

The Bottom Line:

"All flash, no substance"

While the interface is about as slick as they come the guts of the game, which I consider to be the selection of songs, is about as weak as music games come.

Upon loading up the game I was blown away by the high-res graphics, soft, animated transitions and well polished interface. But the lack of online content after all this time was nothing but raw disappointment.

When games like Guitar Hero and Rock Band get updated every week with current material as well as exclusive content why is SingStar seem to be living in the past as well as in an alternative universe where people want updates every 2 months?

While not a total deal-breaker why must I shut down the game before connecting the 2nd microphone? I tried to get my mother and wife to sing a duet but after connecting and reconnecting the mics realized that the only way to get the second mic to be recognized was to reboot the game. A minor gripe to some but just a pain in the butt overall.

Anyway, beyond the sucky online offerings my other problem with the game is the latency issue with the mic. My wife is no Celine Dion but she can certainly hold her own and when singing into the SingStar mics it was clear that the sound wasn't registering at the same rate she was singing with her vocals almost always trailing the game.

One would think with a traditional corded mic that the transfer would be practically instantaneous but no. Even after calibrating the vocals were still always late.

Overall, I think the product is great. A great interface with tons of potential but with such a stale (and violently slow) online store it's hard to love or even like this game unless you're just desperate for a karaoke game.

Oh yeah, speaking of online content where are the Abba songs and Queen songs on the online store? Is Sony expecting me to purchase yet another Blu-ray disc just to get access to these songs? It just seems silly that they don't offer at least SOME of the songs from the disc!

That's all I say other than "DON'T BUY THIS GAME!!!!"