Customer Reviews

Karaoke Revolution Party with Microphone

5 star:		(20)
4 star:		(3)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

+ 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!

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.

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!

This is our 2nd Karaoke Revolution as we have the original one as well. It was amazing to see how they evolved.

With a family of 7 there is not too many games that allow us to play as individuals. Well this game delivers that and more!! The boys love the minigames, the girls love to change their characters clothes based on how they feel and all of us love to sing.

We are not the Von Trapp family by any means but we can certainly have fun. That's what the game delivers. After a long week of stress / work and school, we have a Saturday night of Karaoke. The kids love it!! This by far is the best investment into family time that we have ever made.

Of all the Karaoke games we have used, this is by far the best. It's fun to pick out all of the different outfits for the characters. It has more songs than the previous karaoke game we have. THere are the are different options, like duets and in sing offs you can see who can get the best score. Hours of FUN, FUN, FUN!!!

This is so wonderful. I have a 7yr old (boy) and a 9yr old (girl) and they cannot get enough of this. My 9yr old had a sleep over and the other girls now want to come over all the time to play! I even have had some of the parents inquiring about it. This is so much fun, even my husband and I have a great time playing. The kids love that you can creat your own characters and change their outfits anytime and when you do well you can unlock new songs and outfits. We can't wait to get another microphone so we can do more.

We got a group of 5 friends together to do Guitar Hero 1 and 2, DDR, and now Karaoke Revolution Party. It's freaking cool. The songs list is very good and there's something for everyone. Easy to figure out too.

My daughter and her friends can play for hours! They love it!

A great variety of songs and the ability to sing duets have made this game a hit in our home for both 40-somethings and almost teens. We also purchased a Karaoke American Idol Encore bundle so that we had more songs and two microphones. One microphone wouldn't have been enough, and the bundle was a better buy than a separate microphone.
We each have multiple avatars so that we can choose a persona that matches our mood and the songs we're singing. You can get pretty creative with the avatar designs, and our daughter thinks that's half the fun of the game.

For anyone who has only tried the Singstar karaoke games for PS2, if you really enjoy singing and doing karaoke, you have GOT to try the Karaoke Revolution games... so many more options for playing and much easier to follow the lyrics and try to stay in tune... In my opinion, ALL of the Karaoke Revolution games are a BLAST!!