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FUN!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 121 / 124
Date: November 23, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is so much fun! you dont automatically get all 30 songs, you win them if you score over a certain limit on the different songs.

You also win the different enviornments, and characters the characters can sing in.

You also get graded like in high school :p throughout the song you get grades, and when you're done you get a final grade.

And i got a pleasent surprise when i went to something called extras and it had videos, interviews with the cast, dance along, and behind the scenes!

All in all a great game if you love HSM as much as i do.
Well worth the money!

High School Musical Sing It

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 18 / 20
Date: December 19, 2007
Author: Amazon User

We recently purchased the Wii for our 8 and 6 year old (and their parents). The kids love High School Musical 1 and 2 and listen to the soundtrack often. The game therefore seemed like a no-brainer. The game is fun, especially if your kids love the movies and sountracks. The graphics are not great. Music is great--it's the soundtracks from HSM 1 and 2. If your kids like to sing with the soundtracks, they will like it even more with this. Singing on tempo unlocks more songs and your kids can change venues to sing in (cafeteria, rooftop, auditorium, etc). There is nothing challenging about the game. It is simply karaoke. If you are looking for strategy or challenge, look elsewhere. If you are looking for you kids to sing for hours, it's great. Because of its lack of challenge and graphics, I would anticipate older kids will grow bored after a few hours--much more quickly than younger ones.

Awesome Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 25, 2007
Author: Amazon User

LOVE this game! Gave it to my 10 year old for Christmas and he loves it. Getting better "grades" unlocks more clothing styles, characters and backgrounds. This is definitely a hit with my high school musical loving child. He has been playing it for hours and shows no signs of quitting soon.

Just terrible

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 6
Date: December 26, 2007
Author: Amazon User

My friends kids just love High School Musical. They can practically recite both movies which is why its so sad but not unexpected that this poorly written and delayed game is another way to milk the HSM franchise.

My first complaint is every single game uses the trigger button as a back button providing a consistent control scheme for menus. Not this game. The trigger is now the accept button. The two children ages 6 and 4 just could not figure it out since it is so different from Sports, Play and Hannah Montanna.

The star shaped pointer is hard to see against the background, not enough contrast for the different shades of light blue. Making changes such as picking a new song or character is not easy for a little kid.

The character models are just unbelievable. Very poorly modeled, feature less and insanely bad dancing (although it is nice when Sharpay leans forward and does a little shake)

The only redeeming quality for this game is the fact that your kids can sing the high school musical songs. Of course they can do that without buying this game.

Fun for the whole family

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 26, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Okay, my wife and I can't sing a lick but our whole family has enjoyed this game. Our kids are early Elementary School, so the HSM theme is huge by itself. Being able to sing along is priceless. If only we could get some voice lessons too! It comes with one mic so "duets" require a spearate purchase of an additional mic.

Very Karaoke-like

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 26, 2007
Author: Amazon User

We've only tried it out a few times so far but my 8 year old HSM fan loves it. It's basically karaoke for the HSM 1 & 2 songs. So if you or someone you know is a big fan of HSM and like the music and like to sing, it would probably be fun, since it comes with a microphone and all you do is sing the words as they come up on the tv. I'd probably give it a 3.5 star.

My seven year old says that it's, "OK"

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: December 27, 2007
Author: Amazon User

If I were reviewing this software, I would give it one star as it appears that they put this together overnight. However, this is a game for my seven year old daughter, who is a huge HSM fan, so I'm writing the review from her perspective. She thinks that it's just "OK." She has asked me numerous times why the boys in the video game are singing like girls. I had not noticed...but she's right...numerous times the boys' mouths are moving, but a girls voice is coming out (and vice versa). She enjoys the grading system and getting new characters, songs, singing locations, etc. However, she grows rather bored of it after two or three songs and goes back to playing Wii Sports. Since she said it was just, "OK," I'm giving it three stars.

I'm wondering if Santa should have bought her the Hannah Montana game instead.

Fun Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 27, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is a fun game for a wide variety of ages of HSM fans. Our whole family ranging in age from 5 and up like playing this together. My daughter especially likes that players can unlock new outfits and styles for their characters by performing well. The songs where you're expected to sing the harmony or embellishments are more challenging to score well on.

Family fun for all of us!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 28, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Although I'm pretty sure my 9yo likes "MLB Power Pros" better, our whole family is having a ton of fun with this game. It is uproariously funny to watch Daddy singing these songs, and the kids have a blast both singing the songs and watching their parents make fools out of themselves. My only complaint with my version is that I did not buy the bundle, so I had to buy the microphone separately... oh well.

Are there things I would change? Well, yeah, but what game is completely perfect? We also bought "Boogie" and I think HSM Sing It! is more fun.

Entertaining but a little quirky

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: December 29, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I'll echo a lot of what's been said - graphics are just okay, menus are touchy to navigate, and certain features/ways of getting around are not obvious. My 5 year old still loves it - she can't quite read yet but has the songs memorized (but it would help if the child is old enough to read well enough to keep up with the lyrics).

One tip for getting to sing the right part - it appears that the player gets the same part whether they are a boy or a girl. If the right part for you is not that part (and it looks like it usually is the first voice you hear), then pick Duet mode, name one of the built-in profiles as the player, and put yourself in as the profile for the duet. Since both profiles get the same score, this works out okay. But I think you still end up having to sing both voices.

Example - my daughter wanted to sing "Summertime" but ended up with Troy's voice - a little funny with the camera focused on her avatar singing and his voice coming out! We went back, named Troy as the player character, and put my daughter's profile (based on Gabriella) as the duet partner. We also picked "Corridors" for the venue. Voila, worked really well.

UPDATE: Got this info off a post at GameSpot - after you select the song you get to the screen where you set mic volume - if you look above the mic volume you'll see "Part 1" - if you click on the character name to the left of this to select it, you can then cycle between "Part 1," "Part 2," and "Mix." I'm not 100% sure exactly all it's doing, but it should at least let you pick a mode where the right voices are mapped to the right characters.

Four stars (maybe 3) if only because they could have done a somewhat better job making things work better.

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