There's no pretense of a career mode or any other obstacle blocking you from any of the songs in SingStar Rocks! As soon as you fire up the game and navigate through its minimal, stylish menus, you can access all 30 songs and start singing them. It feels like whoever assembled the game's lineup couldn't fully commit to the rock theme-perhaps rightly so, since not everyone in your drunken crowd will want to sing that style of music-but the attempt to add variety seems halfhearted with such a spare and strange group of artists. The game sticks to its rock theme with some recent songs-Fall Out Boy's "Dance, Dance," The Killers' "Somebody Told Me," and Bloc Party's "Banquet"-while also throwing in a wide range of classics, from Blur's "Song 2" and the Scorpions' "Wind of Change" all the way back to the Stones' "Paint It, Black" and, of course, "Sweet Home Alabama." But some puzzling choices round out the list, including Aretha Franklin, Elton John, Gwen Stefani, and.DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince? Accomplished artists, all of them, but their inclusion here doesn't make a lot of sense. Music-based games live and die by their track lists, and Rocks!' is decent enough. Rocks! features a pretty good list of songs, though the 'rock' theme isn't as well represented as it could be. The game is a little short on game modes and other frills, and diehard karaoke fans will likely find that the game lacks staying power, but SingStar Rocks! serves nicely as a casual singing-based game for those less discriminating songsters. For your money, you also get a pair of pretty good microphones and a USB adapter that lets them interface with the PS2. It contains a reasonably satisfying song lineup and is geared more toward the multiplayer party scenario than dedicated, career-based single-player singing.
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SingStar is a prolific series in Europe-entries are available with subtitles like Party, Anthems, '80s, and more-but Rocks! marks the first time the franchise has appeared in the US. Konami's Karaoke Revolution finally has stateside competition in SingStar Rocks!, a new PlayStation 2 karaoke game developed by Sony's London studio.
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