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I like it, really, but I remember when I first picked up the controller for the first game, I remember thinking that the ultimate awesome would come from two guitars, a microphone, and a drum kit.

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I am officially stoked.

The thought of that alone blows my mind with awesome.

How would they do the voice aspect though? I've seen a few of my friends obsess over some DS game that requires precise verbal input, and half the time it barely works, and that's for basic everyday nouns spoken plainly. How would you begin to cover singing? I imagine it would have to be adapted to each individual voice first, but what about people like me who like to imitate the accent and inflection of the original vocalist?

Unless it's something lame like just pressing colored buttons on a microphone. They can get away with it with a guitar, 'cause that's awesome, but a microphone?

Singstar-esque pitch analysis, I imagine.

Is it programmed to read what words you're singing? I would imagine it'd be a hell of a lot easier to just read your pitch than your words. Which should be what matters anyway in a music-esque game.

They do it just fine in Karaoke Revolution.

This is the best news i've heard all day. Stark and I have been talking about a game like this for ages now, so i'm currently wetting my pants with excitement.

Plus it will give me another music game to kick Stark's ass all over the living room with.

And i'd imagine the vocal system would be similar to Singstar which only recognises pitch. I've sung many a song just by going 'do-de-do-de-do', and scored very well.

Heh. Being ruled at EBA, Ouendan, Guitar Hero, and Singstar isn't enough - I will now spend hundreds of dollars to be ruled at another music game!

Magus, does Karaoke Revolution actually 'recognise' words? I find that difficult to believe. Measuring pitch and timing is one thing, but voice recognition in a singing game? How many DS games are hard to use because the voice soft wants a Japanese voice - Flash has a very deep voice, so he has serious problems with things like Nintendogs.

And the eighth time you have to sing that bloody Dido song you just want to hum through it.