Lips pre-orders get eight free songs
Out mid-November in the US.
US retailers Amazon and Gamestop are offering eight free songs to anyone who pre-orders Xbox 360 karaoke game Lips.
The Zune team will choose the songs, according to the Microsoft Gamerscore blog, and offer one new track each week for two months.
There's no word on a European initiative or regular DLC price, but we're seeing the game soon, so expect our thoughts and possible bundle/date confirmation in prompt fashion.
Lips is due out in the US on 14th November according to Amazon and 18th November according to GameStop (fight!), incidentally, and retails for USD 69.99 with the microphones.
The game is, of course, the Xbox 360's rather late answer to SingStar. Developed by iNiS (Gitaroo Man, Ouendan, Elite Beat Agents), the clever bit comes in being able to sing along to music on your console hard drive, iPod or Zune.
We're not sure how, but the correct lyrics pop up, the vocal levels are reduced, and the game even gives a rating at the end of the performance. Wizardry.
Lips also has sparkly, motion-sensitive microphones for friends to wave around while others sign, plus a persistent character element where players eventually level up.
Tom had a chance to sing along after Lips was unveiled at E3. Head over to his lips-on impressions of Lips to find out more.
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Higher quality music with videos in the background and potentially no lyrics over the top, so it'll be like real karaoke. There's probably a bitrate cap on music imported from a player.
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If the latter, how so?
EDIT: Oh boo, he deleted his post.
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I pictured that in my family and is actually scary (as in bye; bye; 8 hours of Fallout 3 sessions...). Well. not really, I'm just being an ass...
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It used to be later
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So far it sounds like a gimmicky version of SingStar, when SingStar is already doing pretty much everything right. If the 'sing your own stuff' works properly then that could be a real benefit, but I remain unconvinced and it sounds like you'll need DRM'd music on your MP3 player to make it work. I avoid that stuff, so potentially none of my music will be usable. I very much look forward to hearing more about this because SingStar is a very firm favourite in my house.
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The lyrics thing has now been postponed until sometime after release.
If MS wanted to be really clever about this they could use the audio fingerprinting techniques that are becoming more viable recently to find the song you're playing and then download the lyrics.
....but they won't.
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Personally I just want to play Derek and Clive's "Jump" and receive an Xbox award for nailing it...
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