Karaoke Revolution Party with Microphone

by Konami

Product Features

• Biggest song list yet - 50 new classics to sing along with, from Sweet Caroline and Do You Really Want To Hurt Me, to Crazy In Love
• New Sing & Dance mode supports the DDR dance pad - Combine Karaoke Revolution with Dance Dance Revolution gameplay for a unique new gameplay experience
• Expanded multiplayer and party modes with a variety of vocal tournaments and mini games
• Better Character customization - Select a body shape and additional features, including hair, clothes, accessories and character-specific items
• New unlock and award system - Players can receive constant rewards for their progress including new unlockable songs, venues, characters and accessories

Product Details

• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B000A3ON2S
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.8 x 2.8 inches
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: September 8, 2006
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #23,387 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #32 in Video Games > PlayStation 2 > Rhythm > Singing & Karaoke
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Karaoke Revolution Volume 4 adds even more multiplayer and party game fun, expanding on what has already made the series a popular hit at parties and social gatherings. It's got the largest song list ever, the all new mode that lets you sing AND dance, and support for EyeToy. Includes microphone.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

130 of 131 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A great game only gets better and better!, November 13, 2005

By 

J. Herrera "college student" (Seattle, WA) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Karaoke Revolution Party with Microphone (Video Game)

+ 1-8 Players
+ Now has 50 songs
+ You can design and create your own characters or choose from old favorites
+ EyeToy lets you put yourself into the game
+ Duets
+ Option of using a dance pad and incorporating Dance Dance Revolution along with the singing
+ Gold, Platinum & Diamond (perfect score) rankings
+ 69 items to unlock - and you can access the unlocking status to see what it takes to progress
+ They've gotten rid of the solo challenge section (which is where you had to unlock most of the items in the past)
+ Games modes:
- Quickplay - one player version
- Arcade - the player with the highest score wins
- Medley - sing short clip versions of 3-5 songs all in a row
- Sing and Dance
- Minigames
- KR Challenge - variety of game modes
- Duets
- Duets Medley
- Knock out - Out sing your opponent to knock them out of the game
- Knock out Medley
- Sing off - 2 players alternate lines to get the highest score
+ Demo of DDR Extreme that has 3 songs to choose from

I have loved Karaoke revolution from the beginning. I didn't think it could be any better than the 3rd version when they added the duets. This version takes the game to a whole new level. There is a wide variety of songs, so many different types of people can play. There are several songs that begin locked, but it didn't take too long to get them unlocked. The mini games are terrible and there was no need for them on the disk.

I found that it is near impossible to both sing and dance at the same time. If you don't know all the words to a song, it is impossible to read the singing and dance lines at the same time. Besides, it's extremely difficult to speak, much less sing while exerting yourself on the dance pad. I recommend having one person sing and another dance. This changes it up and gives you some great songs to dance to. I like the DDR games, but never have been crazy about the songs, so I really like the great songs.

Here is a complete list of the songs on the game as well as the artist of the version of the song:

Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing - Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell
Ain't Too Proud to Beg - The Temptations
Always - Atlantic Starr
American Woman - Lenny Kravitz
Brick House - The Commodores
Call Me - Blondie
Crazy - Aerosmith
Crazy in Love - Beyonce
Do You Really Want To Hurt Me - Culture Club
Drive - Incubis
Dust in the Wind - Kansas
Endless Love - Lionel Richie & Diana Ross
Every Little Thing She Does is Magic - The Police
Everybody Wants to Rule the World - Tears for Fears
Everywhere - Michelle Branch & Santana
Fame - Irene Cara (from the soundtrack)
Fly - Hilary Duff
For You I Will - Monica
Greatest Love of All - Whitney Houston
Headstrong - Trapt
Here I Go Again - Whitesnake
I Don't Want to be - Gavin DeGraw
(I've Had) The Time of My Life - Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes (Dirty Dancing soundtrack)
I Left My Heart in San Francisco - Tony Bennett
I Love Rock and Roll - Joan Jett
I Will Always Love You - Whitney Houston
If You Could Only See - Tonic
I'll Be - Edwin McCain
Material Girl - Madonna
Me and Bobby McGee - Janis Joplin
Pain - Jimmy Eat World
Pieces of Me - Ashley Simpson
Play That Funky Music - Wild Cherry
Start Me Up - The Rolling Stones
Superstition - Stevie Wonder
Sweet Caroline - Neil Diamond
Takin' Care of Business - Bachman-Turner Overdrive
Take On Me - A-Ha
That's Amore - Dean Martin
The Game of Love - Michelle Branch
Time After Time - Cyndi Lauper
Truth Is - Fantasia Barrino
Turn the Beat Around - Gloria Estefan
Unforgettable - Nat King Cole
Uptown Girl - Billy Joel
Waiting for a Girl Like You - Foreigner
What I Like About You - Romantics
Who Can It Be Now - Men at Work
You're My Best Friend - Queen
(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman - Aretha Franklin

Final Verdit: Run don't walk to buy Karaoke Revolution Party!

24 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazingly fun game - must buy!, December 14, 2005

By 

Lisa Shea "medieval swordfighting enthusiast" - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Karaoke Revolution Party with Microphone (Video Game)

Karaoke Revolution Party is a fantastic game with great songs, great easy gameplay and perfect party game features. If you've never tried a karaoke game, now's the time to play.

First, the basic setup. You get to FULLY customize your character. We're talking black, white, male, female, heavy, skinny, athletic. Then you go for hair styles, hair colors, outfits down to the shoes and jewelry. You can evey use your EyeToy to scan your FACE onto the face of the character. It is simply amazing.

Then we go onto the song list. I own probably every karaoke game out for the 3 main systems. I love karaoke games. This song list is by far my favorite song list of all time - and it's true for my boyfriend as well. There are a good mix of jumping songs, slow romantic songs, rocking songs and more.

In other karaoke games you have to go through unlocking the venues and songs. Because this is a party game, they pretty much give you everything up front, with a few exceptions. You do unlock a few songs and a ton of characters / outfits as you go, to keep things interesting. A few standouts include the Elvis outfit and the cat outfit.

In addition to being able to sing along in both single player and duet modes, there are a bunch of fun mini-games. You can compete against other players, try to play note-matching games and even set up the eye toy so you see your own background in the game.

Even better, if you have a dance pad, you can sing and dance at the same time! This is REALLY great for building up your vocal powers. Many people can sing fine if they stand still like a stick, but when you sing in a band you're actually expected to move around and dance. Using the dance pad helps you build up your lung power and timing so that you get those skills. Even if you're not in a band, you can see the challenges that your favorite singers face.

This game is a TON of fun both with friends in party mode, or just singing along yourself with the songs. Where some of the previous versions of karaoke sometimes had "questionable" versions of songs, with them being obviously different from the original, these songs are great sounding and many times I didn't have to look at the song bar at all to sing along with them.

Highly, highly recommended!!

Rating: 5/5

NOTE: The previous reviewer says this has the Aretha Franklin version of Natural Woman. I'm rather sure it's the Carole King version.

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Karaoke on your schedule, November 9, 2006

By 

Matthew Murphy "Celtic Dragonlord" (Medford, MA) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Karaoke Revolution Party with Microphone (Video Game)

When I heard about this game at first, I was stunned. DDR and Guitar Hero are both games that focus on "dance-like" and "guitar-like" motions, but they do not rely on the actual ability to dance or the actual ability to play guitar, merely on combinations of responses through specialized controllers.

Karaoke Revolution, however, actually guages the accuracy of your singing. Your performance is based on how closely to the original song you sing your version, measured by pitch of the voice. I would have expected, as in the tradition of DDR and Guitar Hero, that Karaoke Revolution would be "simplified singing", hitting certain buttons on a controller to produce certain singing notes on the screen. But no, this game uses a real microphone and your real voice.

The game also uses popular karaoke songs that are universally singable. It may not be entirely of my genre of music that I would sing at a karaoke bar, but almost all of the songs, I have heard of and can make a passable attempt at singing, and there is a wide spread across genres and across eras so that most genres are represented, and there is both older and very modern music.

I have only used this game by myself to sing and practice songs for actual karaoke, but I can imagine this game being incredibly fun with a party as well. It uses the actual versions of the songs and is essentially like competitive karaoke! And, beyond that, it also has a straightforward Karaoke feature that plays the karaoke versions of the songs, complete with words, for straight-up karaoke for parties and such.

This game is one of several of this genre, and I am personally looking forward to playing all of them. My only critique is that there are limited numbers of songs, and thus, for me at least, limited playing time. If there was an on-line version of this game that could access a much larger database of songs to play (much like at a karaoke bar), I would gladly pay a monthly fee to play such a game. Let's hope such a thing is in the works!