New Lips game out this autumn

By Robert Purchese Published 27 May, 2009

Rihanna! Hammer! Culture Club! Coldplay.

Microsoft has unveiled Lips: Number One Hits, promising the game will be released exclusively for Xbox 360 in October.

The only changes for this sequel appear to regard the song selection, which features tracks from the likes of Rhianna and Roy Orbison. There are plenty of other areas that could have done with some attention, as our Lips review points out.

But Number One Hits will be more-or-less the same, and will work with all current Lips DLC as well as the existing microphones.

The songs revealed so far are:

  • "Viva La Vida" by Coldplay
  • "Disturbia" by Rihanna
  • "U Can't Touch This," by MC Hammer
  • "More Than Words," by Extreme
  • "Apologize" by Timbaland featuring OneRepublic
  • "Karma Chameleon" by Culture Club
  • "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" by Marvin Gaye
  • "Oh, Pretty Woman" by Roy Orbison
  • "Ready, Set, Go!" by Tokio Hotel

Head over to our Lips: Number One Hits gallery for the first few shots.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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Comments (33) Latest comment 3 years ago

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  • menage #1 3 years ago

    Also known as the crap music package.

  • Britesparc Verified Creative, ITV #2 3 years ago

    MC Hammer? I'm so there.

  • rotmm #3 3 years ago

    Lips Mics >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >> Singstar Mics

  • Les #4 3 years ago

    "RIP microsoft"

    Because of one terrible game?!

    They've been making terrible OSs for years and have managed to survive so far... :p

  • miiiguel #5 3 years ago

    "RIP microsoft"

    or

    "I have nothing to do. I realy need to get a life..."

  • Vistrix #6 3 years ago

    @Les By taking massive financial losses, yeah. Microsoft seem to be going downhill more and more each year.

    The gaming market looks pretty good on the whole for them, but as a company, they're on their way out of being one of the dominating software houses.

  • Octoroc #7 3 years ago

    "Lips Mics >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >> Singstar Mics"

    SingStar's wireless mics are very very good indeed.

    The wired mics aren't terrible by any means, but the wireless ones? Man, they're good!




  • YobRenoops #8 3 years ago

    Extreme - More Than Words.

    I would almost by a 360 and Lips and Mics just to sing this. Its sorely missing from my 230 or so Singstore songs.

  • miiiguel #9 3 years ago

    "The gaming market looks pretty good on the whole for them, but as a company, they're on their way out of being one of the dominating software houses. "

    yes, right... Linux it taking over. Oh..., I've been hearing that for 10 years now. Or maybe OraSolaris the OS for the masses, it'll bring the DBA in you!
    lol ?

  • Vistrix #10 3 years ago

    @miiiguel Im guessing you havent been keeping track of how much dominance Microsoft have lost in the software market because of big companies like Adobe and Apple...

    Microsoft have taken a huge market share loss because of it. All of their software products (bar the gaming market) are crumbling before them.

    They're hoping Windows 7 will save them.

  • miiiguel #11 3 years ago

    I'm very aware :) believe me.

    The point is nor Adobe or Apple are a threat to MS in the mass market OS buisness, there are simple no competition, whatsoever in that market.
    There are reports stating loss of market share, but then you see the figure: Windows: 89,5%; Apple 9-10%; Linux 0,5- 1%.
    I'm not saying this is good, is not - competition is good, but not in rethoric.

    Not to mention the buisness market. We did a pilot test here to put CentOS in all our clients (we run a country-wide service of 5000 users), and... it simple didn't work. Local support inexistent; users weren't familiar; too many updates; a pain to upgrade the HW... you name it.
    We renewed the Select license.
    Edited by 2 at 27/05/09 @ 16:33

  • Les #12 3 years ago

    @ Vistrix

    I agree with you that MS's power is slowly but steadily crumbling. Which is a very good thing. They're finally feeling some market pressure and hopefully that will lead to better products and an end to the rip-off Windows and Office prices.

  • waggy79 #13 3 years ago

    Loving all the sony fangirls coming into a 360 only game topic. Laughable.

  • krudster #14 3 years ago

    Does anyone here actually realise that Lips outsold any Singstar game released last year in the UK? Can't speak for the rest of the world.

  • ZuluHero #15 3 years ago

    its the only singing 360 game we have over here though - isn't that why?

  • Domovoi #16 3 years ago

    Again, hilarious punctuation in the subtitle.

  • Daithi #17 3 years ago

    As someone who hasn't a note in their head, much prefer Lips to Singstar, just wish they had comparable DLC. Much better on screen lyric placement. Glad to see they haven't given up on it, ijust nee more song choice.
    Edited by 1 at 27/05/09 @ 17:46

  • MENTAL1ST Verified Senior Software Engineer, Picsel UK Ltd. #18 3 years ago

    Wasn't there a news report some weeks ago about Lips' scoring system being revised in a sequel and/or a downloadable title update?

  • MENTAL1ST Verified Senior Software Engineer, Picsel UK Ltd. #19 3 years ago

    [link url=http://kotaku.com/5160884/lips-ge tting-better-scoring-leaderboards-and-coldplay
    ]http://ko taku.com/5160884/lips-getting-b...[/link]

    Oh, the better scoring is supposed to be live already. Has anybody tried it, is it fixed?

  • t8yman #20 3 years ago

    this game is genuinely shite. I actually lent it to a friend to dissuade him from buying it, and haveny even bothered to ask for it back. well wide of the mark MS, and as for the "lips mics >>>>>singstar mics" comment above - it doesnt matter how good the hardware is if the software sucks balls. I own both consoles and games, and could previously have been branded an xbot, but singstar really pisses all over this substandard ip.

  • wired009 #21 3 years ago

    I think the first Lips game was underrated. I really enjoyed many of the songs and the microphones are great. The UI was easy to use and aesthetically pleasant. The music videos were entertaining. You're allowed to sing as badly or as beautifully as you like with no penalty. There is definitely room for improvement, but one thing I disagree with the EG review on is the need for variable difficulty levels. Also, I don't know why Eurogamer would say the the follow-up is the same game when they haven't tested it yet and it's far from release???
    Edited by 1 at 27/05/09 @ 19:05

  • Canyarion #22 3 years ago

    They should include mashups of Norwegian Recycling.

    If you don't know him yet:
    http://www .youtube.com/watch?v=66QJH7kxh_Q
    http://www .youtube.com/watch?v=3JKKl95Ttrc
    Awesomeness.

  • betahoven #23 3 years ago

    Post deleted at 09:36:16 17-12-2011

  • onyx_elite #24 3 years ago

    I can't believe an article about a singing game spawned a comments thread about Microsoft's market position. Who gives a shit? One crappy game isn't going to make a blind bit of difference. I guarantee no-one at MS HQ gives a blind bollock about it.

    It was an attempt to capture a portion of the casual gaming crowd. They've done that. Yes it's rubbish but casual gamers aren't going to care and they'll still happily download billions of songs on DLC, making MS a pretty penny.

  • SpaceMidget75 Verified Senior Software Developer, Minerva Computer Services #25 3 years ago

    Fuck me, do you lot wanna over dramatise or what??

    I've got both, and the fact is they're played at parties. All we do is select a song and sing it. They both do the job. You might prefer one to the other but to make out that Lips is complete shit just makes you sound like a twat.

    I personally think the wireless mics are great as my Playstation has been pulled off the table 3 times now! I have more tunes for Singstar so obviously that's a big help, but the fundamental Lips software does the same thing!

    Also, the Singstar software doesn't get away Scott free. The amount of times that people have struggled with the menu system when they first try to figure out where they need to go for two player competitive is quite surprising.

  • rotmm #26 3 years ago

    @betahoven, "The simplicity of the Singstar mics is what makes them more suitable for the karaoke game audience. MS just don't "get" the casual market, and the way they assumed that they could outdo Singstar by making the hardware more complex is a perfect example."

    Hardware more complex? What can be less complex than pressing a button to turn a mic on?

    I don't know how it is in your world, but in mine I use a button to turn on my TV, my console, my digital camera and even my microwave. And, it may be surprising for you to know, I consider none of those a "complex" task.

  • betahoven #27 3 years ago

    Post deleted at 09:36:16 17-12-2011

  • rotmm #28 3 years ago

    @betahoven,

    I'm now somewhat more confused. How is having flashing lights in a mic somehow more complex? Or even the ability to shake a mic to make a cowbell sound? And how are either of those more complex than having to plug in a dongle to get the "wirelless" mics to work?

    Honestly, I really wouldn't want to live in your world where a coloured light makes a product too confusing to use.

  • Vistrix #29 3 years ago

    @krudster Double the userbase and only one choice when it comes to those kind of games? I'd expect it to seriously outsell Singstar.

    Doesnt change the fact that this is a really bad party game, desite it being designed for it.

  • SpaceMidget75 Verified Senior Software Developer, Minerva Computer Services #30 3 years ago

    "Doesnt change the fact that this is a really bad party game, desite it being designed for it. "

    Is it REALLY BAD? Is it?

    What's really bad about it then?

  • MENTAL1ST Verified Senior Software Engineer, Picsel UK Ltd. #31 3 years ago

    So nobody knows if there has been any scoring improvement via title update, then?

  • Les #32 3 years ago

    "The amount of times that people have struggled with the menu system when they first try to figure out where they need to go for two player competitive is quite surprising."

    For real?! Thought it was the default selection. But maybe that's the case after you've played it once. Can't recall what it was like the first time I played the game.

  • mezzomorto #33 3 years ago

    Never played SingStar so I can't compare.

    Nevertheless, the fundamental issue I have with Lips is the choice (or lack thereof) of songs.
    Also, I often bemused at which songs they offer for download (although admittedly I'm an old buffer in gaming terms so maybe I'm just out of touch with what the "kids" want).

    Finally, for the non- UK market, it astonishes me that they've only released English-language songs to downloadable.
    Come on MS, there's a whole back catalogue of cheesy Spanish songs to select from (and I'm sure the licensing on some of them must be pretty cheap these days)!