Lips

I finally managed to pull myself away from Fallout last night for the first time in several weeks (Other than playing Lego Batman with the kids) to complete my first challenge on Lips.

Despite many lukewarm reviews of the game I really enjoy it. I have most of the Singstar titles for the PS2 and myself and the family used to play them quite a bit but, and this will sound strange, it was already an almost dead cert who would win every game. Singstar is great at rewarding good singers but at the expense of actually making it an enjoyable competition as, and wait for it, not everyone can actually sing despite what they may think. Lips wins for me in this area as the vibreto bonuses and star power actions it asks you to do with the mics make generally more fun and it isn't always the best "traditional" singer who wins. If you're putting you're heart into it, it rewards you for trying hard and some of the co-op games and challenges add an interesting twist on the old karaoke routine of Singstar.

One of the community members at Crankygamers was good enough to agree to a challenge on "you've lost that lovin feelin'". Which was intresting trying to complete to get a good score and keep the noise down so not disturb the rest of the house. In the end I won my first challenge so and emboldened in my victory, i may retire undefeated or then again maybe "just one more go."

I did end up back on Fallout 3 for an hour after though.