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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.

Qwirky, not that much fun

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 29, 2007
Author: Amazon User

My niece got this game for Christmas. Thankfully we also got the Hannah Montana Wii game, we just weren't planning on giving it to her until her birthday. We had to give it to her early because of this lackluster game. If you are not musically talented and love karoke, this is not a game for you. She's a smart 8 and can sing a bit. Her friend is a talented singer too. Neither of them liked the game. Said it was too hard, couldn't figure out how to change to other characters and was more of a joke than anything. There is no warm up, introduction or anything. Hannah Montana came out and they loved it. They did the warm up and felt comfortable with the game right away.
I wish before I had purchased the game I had seen a video clip of how the game was played. The warm up is a desperate need for this game.

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.

It's OK

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 03, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I guess the hype for this was too much. When my 5 year old received it she loved it but it was annoying that you really couldn't figure out who was supposed to sing when you played with two players. She didn't really ask to play it as much as I thought she would. She said "that's all you do? is there anything else?" I guess we both expected there to be...well...more to it. Don't get me wrong, it's cute and if you want to just sing all the songs then get it! I guess I wasn't aas impressed as I thought I would be.

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.

If your child likes to sing..........

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 12, 2008
Author: Amazon User

We bought this for my daughter at Xmas, and she loves it. She has always been into singing, and she has spent many hours with this game. The only beef I have with it is the grading system seems a bit easy. Although my daughter loves getting A+'s, she got kinda bored with getting them every time. But there were some cool features such as song and dress unlocks and what not. She still has her friends come over and play this game with her. If you are like me and judge your Xmas gifts on how long your kids actually play with them, then this game is well worth it.

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.

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.

high school musical sing it bundle with microphone

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: December 31, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The girls love to sing along to this game. Anyone who likes high school musical will love this game. It doesn't matter if you sing well or not the game calculates the pitch so once they learn how to do that they will score an A all the time. It is fun to watch the girls sing.

Off the hook!!!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 29, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I'm a 10 year old girl who really loves this karaoke like game.
The graphics are not very good. One example is Troy looks like his nose is cut off - making him look like Michael Jackson with all his nose surgeries. When I was singing with Sharpay my brother came in and asked who that was - bad graphics.

You are unable to unlock songs, styles and people by singing well. They have all the songs from both the High School Musicals.

They have the story line with the songs for the first H.S.M. but just the songs for the second movie.

I have really enjoyed singing with this. I would advise any fan of H.S.M. to get this fun sing-along.

:)

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