Fox's talent-search acclaimed phenom American Idol fits your video game systems with Konami's Karaoke Revolution series, a singing franchise with the smash-hit TV show.
The video games series are based on karaoke singing in which an amateur singer sings a popular song while it plays without vocals. The games are able to detect the pitch of the singer's voice and award points based on how well the singer matches the pitches they are supposed to be singing.
Karaoke Revolution Presents: American Idol arrives just in time for the start of the program's 2007 season with authentic venues, video clips of famous performances, celebrity judges. This video game is for the Sony PlayStation 2, Nintendo GameCube, and Microsoft Xbox, developed by Harmonix and Blitz Games and published by Konami in its Bemani line of music games.
With this video game you'll earn an invitation to Hollywood and have a one-shot in front of the crowd on center stage. The Idol-influenced track lineup is quite solid and reasonably diverse; you'll find at least a handful of songs on the 40-strong list that you've sung or at least heard at a bar or box, as many of them are karaoke staples. American versions of the game are based on a public performance style (like American Idol for example). Versions sold in Japan are basically "karaoke in a box" (just displaying lyrics and videos).
Karaoke Revolution video game requires the use of a USB microphone. Each song is divided into approximately 30 to 50 "phrases". A meter will fill up and turn from red to green for each phrase, based on how well the player sings the right notes; if the player can fill the meter to green, s/he will score more points, and getting several greens in a row will create a "combo" and award a 2x score multiplier until the player fails to make green on another phrase. The game can be set at higher difficulties which make this meter larger and require the player to hit the right notes more precisely to fill it to green.
Since maximum scores for each song are normalized around 50,000 or so, overall scores on songs can be compared. To achieve the gold record for a song, 12,500 points must be achieved. To achieve the platinum record for a song, 20,000 points must be achieved. Winning records will unlock additional characters, outfits, and songs. For Karaoke Revolution Party, 50,000 points (a perfect score) earns you a diamond record.
Product Features:
* Compete in the new American Idol mode, which can be played in single or multiplayer
* Also features popular Karaoke Revolution game modes such as KR Challenge, Medley and Quickplay
* Up to 8 people can compete in head-to-head or team-based modes
* Players can sing together in Duet Mode to see who has the most star power
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