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This Game Broke My Heart and Wallet

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 11 / 12
Date: October 07, 2004
Author: Amazon User

The idea of rapping along with famous people appealed to me since I first heard of this game. Now that I've bought it I'm feeling buyer's remorse to the max. I like rap as much as the next guy, but after 2 and a half hours I have seen everything this game has to offer. The microphone can't actually understand the words you're saying, and you can actually get higher scores by mumbling than by actually learning the song. THIS DEFEATS THE ENTIRE PURPOSE OF THE GAME. The game also advertises that you can buy cars, a mansion, a helicopter and a yacht. These have no bearing on the gameplay, but are merely tiny still pictures that appear behind your character on the character select screen.There are 40 songs and here's the list:
Get Busy, Ante Up (Remix), Get By, Baby Got Back, Beware of the Boyz, Dude, Ma I Don't Love Her, The Jump Off, Posse On Broadway, Hey Mama, Tipsy, Get Ur Freak On, Rappers Delight, Wit Dre Day, Pass That Dutch, Humpty Dance, California Love Remix, Beautiful, The Next Episode, Work It, Gin and Juice, What Da Hook Gon Be, Through the Wire, X Gon Give It To Ya, Ruff Ryder Anthem, Still Ballin', Naggin, Dear Mama, Pump It Up, Push It,Express Yourself, Game Over, Nothing But A G Thang, Rubber Band Man, Crank It Up, Fix Up, Hypnotize, Jesus Walks, Whoa and Don't Believe the Hype (appropriate, because this game stinks!) Don't bother learning any of them since you can mumble your way through and still get a "Blazin'" rating. Save your money and just sing along with your CDs. I wasted (...)so you don't have to...

Shoddy but Entertaining.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: January 09, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Listen, the faults with this game are obvious. The scoring reflects relatively little on the competency of the player, and the "game" elements are poorly integrated if not downright pointless. Sure, you can't actually //go into// the mansion you buy or fly that private jet, and, yes, you're going to score better if you just hum or go "ba ba ba" in time with the music. But why do that when you can suspend disbelief a little bit and have some fun with it?

For a karaoke game, I feel the selection comes up with a pretty adequate cross-section of mainstream hip-hop (though missy elliott is curiously overrepresented--not that the fact draws any complaints from myself). When it comes down to it, this is a product for karaoke fans. not for die-hard game fans (who will, i'm certain tire of it within the first two plays) or even die-hard hip-hops fans (who will probably find the scoring to be inadequate and likely infuriating). But for people who like to have a good time looking dumb in front of their friends as they stumble through popular songs (or look even dumber trying to come up with their own rhymes to some corny canned beats) it's great.

so sure. know what you're getting into, but it doesn't cost that much (Assuming you already have the mic/headset), and if you're into karaoke, you'll get some good times out of it.

thumbs down...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: February 08, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game is by far the worst rendition of Karaoke that I have ever come across. The is no reason to do anythign but tap the microphone to earn points. It is truly a waist of time and money!!

Its a game and its fun.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 15, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I'm not a big fan of rap one bit. I bought this game for my brother who loves rap. It may not be a rappers dream but I found myself enjoying it. This is nowhere near like the other type of karaoke type games. There is no "pitch" screen. Just 2 lines of text that has a moving bar.

From a completely technical side of this game, the lines that move irritate the heck out of me. One line can go ever so slow and the next fly by so fast you miss the words. It is a little irritating from that aspect.

My brother kept complaining that some of the words were not the original and they blank out all "politically incorrect" phrases with #. I hate when games censor content like that. Also he mentioned that the people doing the rapping on the game were definately not the original rappers. Looks like the game developers cut a corner on expenses with the rapping.

Overall, this will be fun for ages 10+ who really dont care about "getting it right" and just want to have fun rapping. This is definately not a teaching aid to become a rapper. Get this for the fun and fan not for the accuracy or realism.

This also used my microphone I had for Karaoke Revolution which was a big plus.

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