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NOT for dancing

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 16
Date: June 25, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I purchased this for my son based on the demo that came with DDR. Regrettably, this does NOT allow you to use the DDR dance mat. I spent $50.00 for a game and now he uses the mic only for the DDR karaoke demo. Very disappointing.

Karaoke Revolution Volume 3

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: January 15, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Our 18 year old college freshman granddaughter asked for this volume for Christmas and she loves it!

Poor imitation of Sing Star

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I am from the UK, but we have a US play station for when we come to the States. I had to buy the US equivalent of Sing Star, but unfortunately Karaoke Revolution is nowhere near as much fun as Sing Star. I will not be purchasing any more Karaoke Revolution games. Hopefully they will bring out a US version of Sing Star.

Not as Good as the First Two Games in the Karaoke Series

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 9 / 15
Date: November 30, 2004
Author: Amazon User

First the good news:
The new duet modes of play are the saving grace, or else I would have given this game less than 3 stars. The duet mode is designed to let you play either cooperatively as a team or compete against another player or team. Some songs have separate harmony and melody parts, and others have separate male and female parts. But most of them have only one part. If you sing a duet on those songs, you can sing the song together in unison or you can play the mode in which you take turns singing alternate lines. You get a combined score if you are playing as a team, and you get a breakdown of your individual performance at the end. It is a terrific feature, especially for those who are shy about singing solo.

The bad news:
The songs are terrible. I don't know what it is about them. I don't listen to too much from the teeny-bopper pop charts, so I was unfamiliar with the more modern songs. I would really like to learn them, however, some of them are just too difficult. The old favorites that were chosen are also geared towards very experienced singers who can hit really high notes. For example, the Jackson Five classic "ABC" should come with a warning label, not only of damaging your vocal chords, but of making the neighbors think someone is being violently tortured next door.

My favorite songs to sing are Twist & Shout, Come Clean, and California Dreamin' and Someday. There is an Akira Yamaoka song that is also good, but must be unlocked in Showtime mode (I'm not sure if I'm allowed to mention the name). After that, the song list bores me, and I'd much prefer to play either of the two previous Karaoke Revolution discs. It's too bad you can't load the songs from previous discs to take advantage of the new features, like Medley and Duet, that weren't available on the first disc.

As for new characters, outfits, and venues, they have added some interesting new stuff to the familiar ones. The two new venues-- Rooftop and Music Video-- are ones you'll enjoy playing.

Its fun

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 04, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is a fun game, more of the same Karaoke with no real added bonus from the other volumes.

Songs by decade

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: September 10, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Too bad they don't make a bundle of songs dedicated to a specific decade (60's, 70's etc.). It is a great game , but so far, people only seem to know about 4 songs well enough to sing.

Great fun, but a little inaccurate

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 11 / 13
Date: December 30, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I had never encountered this series for PS2 before last night, and I must say that I am quite thrilled with it. I will probably be buying the other two in the series ASAP. This is such a great, artistic bonding experience that it's almost hard to believe that something so typically antisocial as a game system is responsible for it. It features various controls which allow you to set levels for music level, lead level, etc. Quite sophisticated. The characters are hilarious. It has animations like little pincing, dancing cr0bs, mechanical bulls, just total wigness. And the varied characters available to you are positively "gay" in the traditional sense, each one dancing more and more as your performance improves. As you improve, the crowd gets louder and rowdier. Also there are various weird cheat codes.

Most importantly, if you do REALLY well in one of the venues, you win a FREAKING BLIMP WITH YOUR NAME ON IT! Pure genius. A blimp indeed.

Now for the bad news. Yes, there is too much recent pop. With the extensive, rich history we all share in "pop" music, you'd think there'd be less of an emphasis on recent, TV derived top 40 and more of an emphasis on the roots like funk and Motown, but I guess Konami was after a broader and younger demographic. And the songs which are older, are hard as crap. We all had to resort to falsetto voices to do well in several of them. There are very few songs on here which cater to baritone singers. "New York, New York" was a good example. It's Sinatra's world. We just live here.

And now for my most unique and important complaint. My friends and I are quite analytical, and we discovered early on that phonemes and enunciations are almost completely disregarded as a scoring point in this game. The game only tracks pitch accuracy and rhythm (rhythm in the form of the start/stop time for your tone.) As a result, it is possible to cheat by *humming* or *mumbling* entire tunes, so that you can devote your attention instead to focusing on the little sideways, Asteroids-like isosceles pitch tracking triangle. We call this "playing defender" or "defendering" and it's an easy way to rack up points. If you want to insult a friend who is defendering, all you have to do is say, "don't forget the little people on the ground." I recommend that phoneme tracking and enunciation be added to version 4.

Also, some of the piano-scroll pitch tracking maps are plainly wrong in parts. For instance, one of my friends (my singer, actually) is an "oldies" pro. He knows all the inflections and blue notes of the song "Twist and Shout." But this game has discarded some of them, for instance, the very soulful, bluesy scoop in the beginning of the word "Shout" in the chorus. Every time we tried to sing the word the way it was recorded, the pitch tracker would go off the piano scroll, and we'd get rated "Lousy" or "Poor" for the crime of singing the song right.

All in all, this is still worth it, and the point of my complaints is to help improve the series, because the idea is fundamentally brilliant and inspired. This game takes advantage of the same sort of pitch tracking technology we have been using in studios for years. In fact, at least one of the generic nu-pop songs on here features blatant pitch correction in the original vocal! How fair is that? The guide vocalist gets help, but you don't. :)

In version 4, you should be able to build up a "turbo boost" which can be used with the left trigger, a bonus which lets you turn on fast autotune, aka the "Cher effect," so you can annoy the living crap out of your compatriots. :)

Karaoke Revolution V3 - Great for the whole family.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: September 10, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game was a lot of fun for the whole family. The characters are comical and have their own personalities. The game's a favorite for visiting friends and for parties. I only wish that it included more songs. Can't wait for V4 which is supposed to come out in November and be both more customizable and have more songs.

Comparing the Original to Volume 3

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 30, 2006
Author: Amazon User

My Daughter's Review: In this game, you will ether select "single player" or "multi player." If you choose "multi player," you select the number of players, then, you choose the number of rounds, then, you choose the song - one for each player - choose where you want to sing - then play. Overall I prefer the original because it's less complicated. I also like being able to mix n' match the outfits - and I like the music better.

Fun Times Ahead

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 04, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is a great game! It has a lot of fun songs to sing and it has provided me with many hours of entertainment. I gave it a rating of 4 because it just falls short of the Karaoke Party Revolution.
I would recommend it to anyone who enjoys a good mix of the old and new.

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