Karaoke Revolution Glee Bundle
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Product Summary
Brand: KonamiAudio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Published: 2010-10-31
Release Date: 2010-11-09
Platform: Nintendo Wii
Model: 25120
Publisher: Konami
Product features:
- Perform to Popular Chart-Topping Tunes - Sing up to 30 top hits from Season 1
- Gleek Out to Never-Before-Seen Clips from the Show ? Perform to video montages including exclusive, unreleased show moments
- Reach Hard-Hitting Notes to Perfect Your Singing Skills ? Test your singing ability by belting it out to long, challenging notes in a myriad of ballads and show performances
- Play Alongside Your Favorite Glee Club Character - Perform with characters from the show, including Rachel Berry, Finn Hudson, Will Schuester, and the rest of the cast
- Compete in Multiplayer Singing Games - Play with a friend in duet or co-op mode to perfect your vocal harmonies, or play in an interactive Shooting Star Mode with up to 6 players
Video Game Reviews of Karaoke Revolution Glee Bundle
Customer Review: If you like music, please avoid this game.
Summary: 1 Stars
I love Glee and I love Karaoke. Unfortunately, if you are like me, you won't like this game at all.
THE GOOD
* song selection: fun choices, including some of my gleeky favorites.
* the cute, "Glee!" interlude every time you select a song
THE BAD
* song selection: there are two rap songs in here. For a game which rates your ability to sing notes, these songs don't fit at all. In addition, there are some other songs which are nothing but random runs in every direction, sometimes by more than one person at a time! We all love listening to Mariah Carey singing her runs, but most of us wouldn't want to build a game around trying to duplicate it. Runs are generally specific to the voice producing them.
* not karaoke: you are singing along with the leads. This is not a karaoke game, it is a singalong game. That's fine, but they need to stop the false advertising.
* female-only: I don't know how they managed this, but the entire game is made for women. This seems a little strange given the show's...um...multi-gender nature, but if you are a guy, go ahead and try. I'm a bari-tenor with a huge range, and yet since most of the songs are for women, I have to keep jumping back and forth from the upper to the lower octave (somewhere around G, depending on the song). In addition, whenever there are two people singing, the woman's part is the one it expects you to sing. If the men are singing the chorus and a woman chimes in with her own little run, you are expected to leave the chorus and follow the woman's run (e.g. Lean On Me).
* no written music: we have the Disney family Karaoke and it suffers from some of the same problems, but at least they tried to put a clef on the screen to give us some idea of when we are supposed to jump a 3rd or a 4th or whatever. In Glee, there is no hint as to what the next note is going to be. The little "sing here" line moves down, which means the note is probably somewhere lower than the one you're currently singing. How hard would it have been to put some clefs, signatures and a few lines? I know not everyone is a musician, but adding that minor graphical detail would have helped the third of us who can use it while also helping to introduce the other two-thirds of us to written music. As it is, if you haven't memorized every little flip of the voice from this one particular performance, you get a terrible score...even if you are singing the right notes from the original song!
* duet mode: look, I have been singing harmony my entire life. I was in my high school's equivalent of a glee club, I have sung in barbershop quartets, and I have done a bit of this sort of singing professionally. My family pulls out the caroling books every year and sings the full SATB of some 30 or 40 holiday songs (I'm the tenor). Picking out harmonies is easy for me. The problem is, when you are singing with someone else you are expected to find the harmony without any written music (see my previous comment). The hard part is that if you just sit and listen to the song to try to hear the harmonies, you can't hear them because everybody is booing you too loudly. How can you possibly have a duet mode when there is no way to tell the singer what to sing?
* timing: the karaoke feeds are mismatched. Very often, they expect you to start singing a full half-second before the leads. Occasionally, it is after the leads. With as many problems are there are with this game, you'd think they would have matched up the vocals to the grading system. I went through one song twice in a row with my home audience there to demonstrate: the first time I sang the song with the leads (dead-on accurate) and received an 83% accuracy rating from the game. The second time I covered my ears and sang with the vocal grading system instead. I got 99% and my audience said it was terrible and that I was completely out of sync with the music for the whole song. Enough said.
* microphone: I don't expect the microphone to be good quality. I don't even really care. Unfortunately, though, the mic I got doesn't register any sounds lower than an A (below middle C). I have found ways of working around it, including humming, but when you get every note "wrong" below A it does not really allow you to score well. I got a second microphone, and it has a similar problem. This is not a problem for women, of course: just another instance of anti-male bias.
CONCLUSION
I really wanted to love this game. The fact that they made it a singalong instead of a karaoke is disappointing, but I can get past it. The messed up rating system is hard to reconcile, because you can never please the game and please your audience at the same time, but even that I can live with. The not having actual written music on the screen so that the music readers among us can follow the part we're supposed to sing is practically criminal.
One star, and only because I can't give it zero.
Description of Karaoke Revolution Glee Bundle
Calling all ?gleeks!? For the very first time, fans will get a chance to perform their hearts out in this year?s version of Karaoke Revolution Glee. Filled with the show?s main characters, memorable scenes, and the unforgettable songs from Season 1, players of all ages will experience glee like never before. Belt out to chart-topping glee tunes, reenact scenes with friends and family, take center stage and own the moment on Wii this Fall!
Recognizes pitch and rhythm
Synopsis
Karaoke Revolution Glee gives fans and gamers everywhere a chance to test their vocal prowess alongside the Glee cast with some of the most memorable songs from Season One. The millions of fans nationwide can now belt out up to 30 chart-topping hits and tunes from the popular TV series as they watch some of the most loved scenes from Season One play out on screen. Karaoke Revolution Glee will also utilize Karaoke Revolution's proprietary voice recognition technology, which accurately recognizes and scores vocal pitch and rhythm, helping gamers reach those hard-hitting notes and perfect their harmonies!
Never-Before-Seen
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Clips from the Show
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Features
- Perform to Popular Chart-Topping Tunes - Sing up to 30 top hits from Season 1
- Gleek Out to Never-Before-Seen Clips from the Show - Perform to video montages including exclusive, unreleased show moments
- Reach Hard-Hitting Notes to Perfect Your Singing Skills - Test your singing ability by belting it out to long, challenging notes in a myriad of ballads and show performances
- Play Alongside Your Favorite Glee Club Character - Perform with characters from the show, including Rachel Berry, Finn Hudson, Will Schuester, and the rest of the cast
- Compete in Multiplayer Singing Games - Play with a friend in duet or co-op mode to perfect your vocal harmonies, or play in an interactive Shooting Star Mode with up to 6 players
- Unlock Bonus Content - Play through an immersive Scrapbook Mode and unlock themed items to customize your very own Glee scrapbook
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