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The Karaoke Revolution game brings all the fun of a karaoke party right into your living room through PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Nintendo GameCube, Wii, Xbox, and Xbox 360. Many of the concepts in the game, originally developed by Scott Hawkins and Sneaky Rabbit Studios, were incorporated into Rock Band. The Japanese version of the game is also slightly different, without all the competitive judgments of its American counterpart.

If you like Rock Band or Guitar Hero, then you will have a ball with Karaoke Revolution, in which you play an on-screen character who is performing a live concert. As with any video game character, you can customize the outfits, hair color and other features to your liking. The song lyrics will scroll right-to-left at the bottom of the screen in traditional karaoke format, while a pitch arrow shows whether you are in the correct range or not. If you are singing your karaoke hits well, then the audience will cheer for you and the crowd meter will be through-the-roof! But watch out because if you are bombing, you just might get booed right off stage!

The first Karaoke Revolution game promised to have a song for everyone, and it did, from pop rock like Simple Plan’s “Addicted” and Sugar Ray’s “Every Morning” to classics like Percy Sledge’s “When A Man Loves A Woman” and “You’re The One That I Want” from the movie Grease. Classic eighties songs like Pat Benatar’s “Hit Me With Your Best Shot,” Cyndi Lauper’s “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” and nineties favorites like Hoobastank’s “Crawling In the Dark” and The Black Crowe’s “She Talks to Angels” also made an appearance. Volume 2 brought 35 more songs from artists like The Police, Garth Brooks, Christina Aguilera, Three Days Grace, Elvis, No Doubt, KISS, Otis Redding and Lynyrd Skynyrd. With Volume 3, Michael Jackson, George Michael, the B52′s, Hillary Duff, The Beatles, Liz Phair and David Bowie offer up karaoke songs.

One downside to Karaoke Revolution is that the karaoke songs have not been leased, so they are all performed by cover bands and artists, rather than the originals. If you think this will really bug the crap out of you, then you may want to consider Sony’s Sing Star series, which features only original artists and music videos. However, Sing Star is not without faults too. Critics say this karaoke system doesn’t engage players enough because it splices so many music videos in, rather than allowing the user character creation or avatars. Also, some of their karaoke CDs are better than others, with Sing Star, Sing Star Party, Sing Star 80s and Sing Star Rocks faring very well, compared to Sing Star Abba, Sing Star Vol. 1 and Sing Star Vol. 2, which were considered “a loosely thrown together collection of what the charts say is cool, with little regard for what will make a karaoke party fun.”

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