Lips and other games of this genre actually represent a golden opportunity for labels and artists to sell content and while progressive bands like Coldplay and Snow Patrol have embraced this platform, many more could and should follow. While there are a good number of songs to choose from on the marketplace, my feeling is there needs to be more by many more artists.įor example, there was only one Elvis track, Blue Christmas. The not-too-subtle difference with the latest game is it takes the new song list, which includes artists from Lady GaGa to Scissor Sisters, and merges it directly with songs on the Xbox LIVE marketplace, encouraging you to buy more tracks to sing along to.
Having graduated from Lips 1 we decided to brave the latest incarnation of Lips: Number One Hits. Every time you finish a song your points are totted up and you could enjoy a meteoric rise to super-nova status if you haven’t butchered the song too badly. The game system behind Lips shows the videos of the songs and it’s pretty easy to keep up with the words – most of the time. Then it was my partner’s turn and she had a go at Leona Lewis’s Bleeding Love, which ended with both of us collapsed on the floor, holding our splitting sides, from laughing. Scanning through the song list on the original Lips game that came out last year, I decided on some safe numbers like The Editors’ An End Has a Start before growing a pair and chancing Duran Duran’s Hungry Like a Wolf and Radiohead’s Fake Plastic Trees. The original plan was to build up Dutch courage with a jug of mojitos, but since the local supermarket hasn’t stocked mint since the summer I decided beer would have to do. They work with the Lips games, providing rhythm and allowing you to get into your groove.įinding my groove wasn’t that difficult. The original Lips game comes with two microphones that synch pretty easily with the Xbox 360 and show off some pretty lights. Whether out of boredom or morbid curiosity I decided to unleash the inner rock god (who probably ought to stay buried) and give Lips a crack.
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I’d seen the ads on TV for the Microsoft Xbox 360 game Lips, where a lithe, sexy young couple would break the ice and get the party started with their rendition of Young Folks by Peter Bjorn and John and I’d smirk to myself, nah.īut last night something happened. Having listened to myself in the car singing along to the radio or while washing the dishes, my road to Carnegie Hall would be a disappointing one. Painfully self-conscious at the best of times, you will never see me volunteer to karaoke at parties. That’s probably why I took to Microsoft’s Xbox singing game Lips with relish: I murdered a fair few songs last night.
The more bangs and explosions, the better. I have to admit to being a gaming fanatic, mostly the shoot-’em-up sort.
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