Lips

Sounds interesting. It will be interesting to see games like this get an "social" bent, ala American Idol, and allow social networks to do their own contests with peer review and such. The whole YouTubish mentality

 

You have a PS3 right? Have you tried Singstar already? Or is the 360 the 'living room' machine?

Anyway, will be interesting to see more details on Lips regarding the lyrics bit and such.

 

Well that's fair. Singstar and Buzz are huge IPs in Europe, but much to Phil Harrison's chagrin, only very recent introductions in the U.S.

Is Lips going to have webcam integration and online features like the 'competition' currently has?

If they pull it off with MP3s, that'll be great. Though apparently you have to play the music off a Zune or iPod, which we don't use, but I'm sure you can just use a memory stick as well - and it has to be DRM-less music, but that's no big issue at all these days, even for official store songs MP3 versions are available these days.

I don't think we'll ever see harmony singing as was recently introduced for 'the competition' though, but that's more than understandable. If this title is any good, it may be the first one to move the 360 to the living room. It's made by InIs after all, of Elite Beat Agents fame. But for now it's wait and see. As said, in our home the title has some fierce competition and that has been around for 5 years or so, maybe longer, and is very polished.

 

While I think analyzing a song for the lead singers pitch might be feasible this generation, there's no way someone will be correctly quantifying cadence and enunciation.

 

I like to see what the singstar team does in reaction to lips...

 

This thread is not about that game ... I'm trying very hard not to discuss that title too much myself. However, we'll find out at Leipzig. Apparently there's a lot of stuff coming.

 

I just saw in a LIPS vid that the microphone has motion sensitivity too. Could Newton be built into LIPS?

 

No.

 

Confirmed November, song list at the link:

http://www.joystiq.com/2008/10/22/lips-coming-to-xbox-360-this-november-song-list-revealed/

Seems like a good list for a karaoke game.

 

Somehow... full price for a game like this seems not the way to go... A mainstream price ala Banjo Threeie would be more attractive methinks, or maybe I'm just missing something

 

Comes with _2_ wireless motion-senstive microphones.

Tommy McClain

 

I hope the microphones can be used for Rockband2/GH:WT.

 

Here are the details on the mics...

http://www.joystiq.com/2008/07/17/details-on-lips-microphone-your-songs-its-songs/

Also, if you preorder from Amazon or Gamestop you get 1 free song download every week for the next 2 months.


Tommy McClain

 

Ah ok. That's better.

 

Eurogamer has a review. Ignoring their score, it sounds like Lips has issues.

This makes it hard to trust the voice detection engine is reliable. They also found iPod attachment was buggy, and when it did work, it sounded like all that happens is the tune plays, with no pitch detection or lyrics or vids. Eurogamer are unclear on this :

The last point suggests this is how MS will supply lyrics, but is there really no voice-track cancellation in the usual karaoke style?

 

Ok, that is LOL funny.

 

It certainly does. Eurogamer's preview was quite hopeful, but this review certainly isn't.

Nah, it's not for supplying lyrics, but for making these songs available as proper 'Lips' downloadable tracks in the future, like in the SingStore.

 

yikes!


it'll fill a need though and probably still sell "ok" -my opinion

 

How do I turn off the mic after usage? Even if I turn off the 360, the mics seem to blink for a while before some auto shut off kicks in. Also, the batteries that came with the mics barely lasted at all.

I wonder if the mic are battery hogs when not in use like GH instrumentments that ate up battery life when not in use. Anyone have any exp with them?

 

To turn them off, just push the button underneat them for a couple of seconds. They blink a couple of times, then shut down. And btw, the recent update made it a whole new game: scoring is much more accurate, and leaderboards are always fun to check against.