kisarune's Full Review: American Idol for PlayStation 2
I'll admit that I'm a sucker for these Karaoke games. I love Karaoke, but hate the fact that bars are smokey, I have to wait a good hour between songs, and I have to watch a bunch of drunk college kids grind and giggle on the dance floor.
So these games are a fairly decent second place for the bar scene.
Now this one worried me, could my sensative ego handle Simons downing me at every last judging?
Seems that, yes, yes indeed I very well could! What I thought was beyond amusing, was when Simon would say something completely negative. Only to go with "The great thing is, I thought you did amazing!" or, well something similar. All I know is often he'd say something about how much you suck, and go on to just how you blew him away. So I turned to just rolling my eyes at Simon, and clicking through the judging, wasn't really worth listening to because I could Max Points a song and one would still have something completely negative to say? Probably just a AI and scripted speech fail. Not a completely negative flaw however.
I do like the various outfits, the ability to make your character something other than a stick thin gal, and getting to go through the 'entire' American Idol process.
Still, the graphics really should have been mildly.. ehhh... upgraded from previous games. Seriously, I expected a bit more flow and smoothness in the character designs. Graphics have come a long way, and I feel game designers shouldn't sell one short just because the game is 'only' a singing game. Give me a karaoke game with good graphics, some better 'dance' moves and just all around stage performance for the characters and I'd be happier on this regard.
The song list....well, could have been a bit more updated. My 8 year old likes to play along with me, and neither of us knew all the songs or even 50% of them. Perhaps that's a flaw with us? I'd like to find a better list of songs on these Karaoke Revolution games as a whole.
All in all, it's a good addition to my list of Karaoke Revo games, though the 1st game for the series is still my favorite insofar.
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