SingStar inty in the key of F(eatures)

 

SCEE‘s Paulina Bozek had been quite talkative with IGN lately, singing everything she could about SingStar for the PS3 (of course, we meant that figuratively). Which is good, because it gives a further look into two of the game’s features: iTunes SingStore and MySpace My SingStar Online.

Now, there will be songs on the SingStar game disc, Paulina says. It’s to make sure that everyone can enjoy the karaoke game, even if they’re not on the PlayStation Network yet. Ultimately, though, SingStore is about user customization – the rocker, the crooner, the gangsta, divas, pop potentials, and Sharpay Evans. “You’ll be able to get your Bob Dylan and your Beyonce.” SingStore is an integral part of the game – no need to exit SingStar to enter the PlayStation Store. No price points yet; SCEE’s conducting more research to find the proverbial “sweet spot” for track pricing. (If you asked Apple though, ninety-nine cents).

Equally integrated into SingStar is My SingStar Online. It is essentially having MySpace Music in the game – profile management, content uploads, linking to friends, rating videos, and so on. Paulina reveals that SCEE may add more features that will appear post-launch.

Here are a couple of interesting additions, gameplay-wise. “Online singing contests and competitions is something we’re really excited about – stay tuned…” If Simon Cowell ever gets a SingStar profile to this end, he is so going to be swamped with Friend Requests. And…

At the moment, the detection system measures you on your pitch and timing. We could potentially include word recognition, but this would actually make the game extremely hard, therefore we prefer to stick to pitch and timing for singing. However, we are working on our rap feature and will be enhancing this in the future.

Word. (“Crawling in my skin, these wounds, they will not heal, fear is how I fall, confusing what is reeeeeaal!” Do I pass, SingStar scoring?)

 

SCEE‘s Paulina Bozek had been quite talkative with IGN lately, singing everything she could about SingStar for the PS3 (of course, we meant that figuratively). Which is good, because it gives a further look into two of the game’s features: iTunes SingStore and MySpace My SingStar Online.

Now, there will be songs on the SingStar game disc, Paulina says. It’s to make sure that everyone can enjoy the karaoke game, even if they’re not on the PlayStation Network yet. Ultimately, though, SingStore is about user customization – the rocker, the crooner, the gangsta, divas, pop potentials, and Sharpay Evans. “You’ll be able to get your Bob Dylan and your Beyonce.” SingStore is an integral part of the game – no need to exit SingStar to enter the PlayStation Store. No price points yet; SCEE’s conducting more research to find the proverbial “sweet spot” for track pricing. (If you asked Apple though, ninety-nine cents).

Equally integrated into SingStar is My SingStar Online. It is essentially having MySpace Music in the game – profile management, content uploads, linking to friends, rating videos, and so on. Paulina reveals that SCEE may add more features that will appear post-launch.

Here are a couple of interesting additions, gameplay-wise. “Online singing contests and competitions is something we’re really excited about – stay tuned…” If Simon Cowell ever gets a SingStar profile to this end, he is so going to be swamped with Friend Requests. And…

At the moment, the detection system measures you on your pitch and timing. We could potentially include word recognition, but this would actually make the game extremely hard, therefore we prefer to stick to pitch and timing for singing. However, we are working on our rap feature and will be enhancing this in the future.

Word. (“Crawling in my skin, these wounds, they will not heal, fear is how I fall, confusing what is reeeeeaal!” Do I pass, SingStar scoring?)