Lips

by Microsoft

• Two wireless interactive microphones
• Includes a diverse selection of songs
• Sing along with friends to music from their personal collections
• Download new tracks from Xbox LIVE Marketplace
• Play along using the standard Xbox 360 controller

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: B001CMNJOE
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 10.4 x 1.8 inches ; 1 pounds
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: November 18, 2008
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (83 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #13,691 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #8 in Video Games > Xbox 360 > Games > Rhythm > Singing & Karaoke
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

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Take to a whole new stage with Lips, a new music franchise for Xbox 360. Lips offers wireless motion-sensitive microphones and the ability to sing from your own music collection of DRM-free songs. Start channeling your favorite pop star because it’s you, your friends and most important your music that turns Lips into the ultimate party experience.

Keiichi Yano, celebrated developer behind some of the industry’s most beloved rhythm games, brings his vision of collaborative and social musical entertainment to Lips. The interactive motion-sensitive microphones make your party rock all night long and encourages players to toss apprehensions out the window and join the party.

Features:

• Two wireless interactive microphones - Featuring interactive motion sensors and lights, the microphones respond to singers’ actions and can be used as percussion accompaniments. With the freedom and encouragement provided by the wireless microphones, everyone can live their singing dreams in style.
• The best music - Lips includes a diverse selection of songs, including your favorite blasts from the past such as “Bust a Move” by Young MC, as well as new songs from breakout artists such as “Mercy” by Duffy and “Young Folks” by Peter Bjorn and John.
• Sing your music collection - Lips allows people to sing along with friends to music from their personal collections.
• Play along - Using the standard Xbox 360 controller, up to two people will be able to join the fun and choose from a variety of percussion accompaniment to play along with the music in Lips. By placing control of various tambourines, claps and of course the ubiquitous cowbell at the fingertips of anyone with a controller, creating a social entertainment experience for friends, co-workers and kids alike.
• Constant flow of new music - From the songs that will come with the game, to your own music collection and the ability to download new tracks from Xbox LIVE Marketplace, Lips will continually provide new music to bring people together and keep the party going.
  

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Check-out the 40 track song list already included in Lips:

Artist Song Title Artist Song Title a-ha “Take on Me” Nirvana “In Bloom” Alicia Keys “No One” Peter Bjorn and John “Young Folks” Aly & AJ “Potential Break Up Song” Queen “Another One Bites the Dust” Avril Lavigne “Complicated” R.E.M. “The One I Love” Ben E. King “Stand by Me” Radiohead “Fake Plastic Trees” Beyoncé “Irreplaceable”  The Ramones “I Wanna Be Sedated” Blondie “Call Me” Rascal Flatts “Stand” Chris Brown “With You” Rihanna “Umbrella” Coldplay “Yellow” Roxette “Listen to Your Heart” Depeche Mode “Personal Jesus” Sara Bareilles “Love Song” Destiny’s Child “Survivor” Sheryl Crow “Soak Up the Sun” Dido “White Flag” Taylor Swift “I’m Only Me When I’m With You” Duffy  “Mercy” The Bangles “Walk Like an Egyptian” Duran Duran “Hungry Like the Wolf” The Fray “Over My Head (Cable Car)” John Denver “Take Me Home, Country Roads” The Jackson 5 “ABC” Johnny Cash  “Ring of Fire” The Police “Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic” Leona Lewis  “Bleeding Love” The Raveonettes “Love in a Trashcan” Lil’ Mama  “Lip Gloss” Trace Adkins “Ladies Love Country Boys” Lupe Fiasco (featuring Matthew Santos) “Superstar” Weezer “Island in the Sun” Maroon 5 “Makes Me Wonder” Young MC “Bust a Move”

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28 of 29 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars almost a winner! good and bad points December 3, 2009

By Patrick H. Nguyen

Fun: 3.0 out of 5 stars   

I'm a big Karaoke Revolution, Rock Band, and Guitar Hero fan. Lips is a pretty good first try. The songs are pretty good but the selection could be a little bigger. Also, some of the songs are really nice to listen to, but they're hard to sing in that a lot of the songs have choppy, quick phrasing. Almost feels like you're rapping to some of the songs instead of doing melody.

I wish they copied the above games more in terms of singing. I'll use karaoke Revolution as an example. As you sing, it's very easy to see the words as well as what pitch you're singing at because they have an easy to see arrow and if you notice that you need to sing higher or lower you can adjust. This is all while still being easy to see the words to the songs.

But on Lips, the words are totally separate from the pitch bar. So if you follow the words, it's hard to see the pitch bar unless you have fabulous peripheral vision. And if you follow the pitch bar, you better know the words beforehand. Plus, you see the glowing light of what pitch you're at but it's not as easy to follow as the arrow you see in Karaoke Revolution or Rock Band or Guitar Hero.

They make up for this fault by taking away all of the game aspect. there's no chance to fail. There's no difficulty level to choose. There's no computer audience to boo. So it feels like a karaoke machine rather than a game. But you don't get that sense of accomplishment the other games give where you feel like you match that pitch bar and feel like a singer.

They should also give you options of how the text and pitch bar scroll like in the other games. The best scrolling is Karaoke Revolution and Rock Band. Pretty each to read the text and pitch bar.

Guitar Hero/Band Hero is bad at scrolling text. But it offers a static mode that is really good too. Lips is like a combination of the two but it's not as good as either mode individually.

I'll be honest, I bought it for the wireless mics, not the game. The mics are really cool. They have glowing lights that change color. And the colors sync up to the music. the setup for the mics is much harder than it should be. trust me, you won't get it the first time or rather, you won't be sure you got it or not until you start the game. there's very little visual indication that it's been properly set up. And it's hard to turn off the controllers too. Because the same action (hold down the button on the bottom of the mic) does 3 different things. You need to do it twice to setup the mic. but you also do it to turn off the mic. so sometimes, you want to turn it off and then you accidentally you put it in pairing mode. when I thought the mic was off, it was on.

in terms of the sound, I liked my mics for Karaoke Revolution more even though they were wired. the sound was just more natural. the sound coming out of these wireless mics seemed a little artificial. almost a tinny quality. and they were not as good at filtering noise.

also, you can use the mics as instruments by shaking them to simulate various instruments like tamborine, etc. but again, there was a lag to when you shook the mic to when it played the sound so if you shake according to the music, it'll sound really off sync with the music.

i love the feature of how you can join a song just by shaking the mic. and the tilt features of the mic are gimmicky but is hilarious in a group situation when both singers raise up the mic in tandem.

Also, there seemed to be a delay between when you sing into the mic and when it comes out the game. but after playing around with the game, I got a downloaded update to the game from MS and it included a cool sync tool. and it's by far the easy calibration tool I've ever used for a music game. You just put up the microphone to the TV speaker while it's running and after a few seconds, it calculates the delay.

41 of 48 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Xbox 360's Musical Breakthrough November 18, 2008

By Michael Kerner HALL OF FAMEVINE™ VOICE

Fun: 4.0 out of 5 stars   

There are just so many great music games out there. While you have the guitar standards that are based on rhythm like Rock Band and Guitar Hero, and those that make you step to the beat of the music like Dance Dance Revolution, there is just the feeling of games that you have to sing your way to the top. With lackluster games like American Idol and Disney's Sing It!, just appeal to tweens and teeny-boppers wannabes alike, there just doesn't feel like there is a universal appeal to sing-a-long games alike. For those who've played Singstar so much from the PS2 and Playstation 3, the Xbox 360 has taken that notion to a whole new level that makes it more than just meets the eye.

Lips for the Xbox 360 takes in the appeal of what the Singstar! series had for the PS2, and brings in the appeal as a first for Xbox 360 players. While the game might seem like a gimmick, there actually is surprisingly more. You have the usuals like Singstar, from singing along to over 40 tracks that appeal from recent favorites like Duffy's Mercy and the extremely overexposed artist of 2008 Rihanna with Umbrella, to classics like The Jackson 5's ABC, and Everything She Does Is Magic by The Police. You also have the ability to download videos from the Xbox Live marketplace to add on to the fun. While the graphics and sound might feel like it is similar to Singstar!, as well as the concept of the downloadable content, what makes this unique to the gameplay is Lips secret weapon.

What makes the gameplay more unique is that you can plug in your MP3 player or Ipod, and connect it to the 360, and sing along to your favorite songs off their personal MP3 Players in the game as well. This feature makes the game a whole lot more exciting and addictive to the gameplay for parties everywhere. Sadly, there is one big disadvantage to the MP3 playback. The only music downloads that are compatable, are ones that are MP3 DRM-Free capable. Which is the only problem, is that if you download music off of sites that use other music files in Windows Media Audio or WMA, they will not be playable on the game. That is sadly, the only major flaw in the game. Also, I was hoping that with the price of the Singstar! games for PS2 and Playstation 3, I really thought it would also be a bit less expensive.

All in all though, Lips for the Xbox 360 brings in the singing along concept well for those who want to have a great time listening to their favorite songs. If you've gotten pretty tired of Singstar!, or if you don't own a Playstation 2, or PS3, than this would be a fantastic buy for music lovers and 360 gamers all around the world. I really hope they make this concept for more music games like this soon. At around $65, you really get a great game, that doesn't feel like it is a gimmick.

Graphics: B

Sound: B

Control: B

Extras: B+

Fun & Enjoyment: B- for solo play; A- for multiplayer

Overall: B

18 of 21 people found the following review helpful

2.0 out of 5 stars Work In Progress... November 25, 2008

By Bea Shalla

Fun: 3.0 out of 5 stars   

If you like to sing, Rock Band 2 is better. When you sing on Rock Band2, it shows you how close you are to hitting the right pitch. With Lips, it only lights up if you hit the right pitch, so it's not as much help in learning to sing the song perfectly on pitch.

You can do 'battles' with another singer, but you can't choose your own avatar when you do. So, you both look like monsters, one skinny with green hair and the other fat with blue hair. It's also confusing to figure out who's who.

I feel this has so much promise, but it's not there yet. And the songs... not that many... we're still figuring the proper format to upload our own music.

I like that it has the original music videos for the songs it offers though.

If you don't have Rock Band 2 you may like to check that one out Rock Band 2