High School Musical: Sing It Bundle with Microphone Reviews

• FUN!

  
  By A2REGT7QG4GEW1 on 2007-11-23
  This game is so much fun! you dont automatically get all 30 songs, you win them if you score over a certain limit on the different songs.
  
  You also win the different enviornments, and characters the characters can sing in.
  
  You also get graded like in high school :p throughout the song you get grades, and when you're done you get a final grade.
  
  And i got a pleasent surprise when i went to something called extras and it had videos, interviews with the cast, dance along, and behind the scenes!
  
  All in all a great game if you love HSM as much as i do.
  Well worth the money!
  
  

• High School Musical Sing It

  
  By AG8WG20ZBN3CF on 2007-12-19
  We recently purchased the Wii for our 8 and 6 year old (and their parents). The kids love High School Musical 1 and 2 and listen to the soundtrack often. The game therefore seemed like a no-brainer. The game is fun, especially if your kids love the movies and sountracks. The graphics are not great. Music is great--it's the soundtracks from HSM 1 and 2. If your kids like to sing with the soundtracks, they will like it even more with this. Singing on tempo unlocks more songs and your kids can change venues to sing in (cafeteria, rooftop, auditorium, etc). There is nothing challenging about the game. It is simply karaoke. If you are looking for strategy or challenge, look elsewhere. If you are looking for you kids to sing for hours, it's great. Because of its lack of challenge and graphics, I would anticipate older kids will grow bored after a few hours--much more quickly than younger ones.
  
  

• My seven year old says that it's, "OK"

  
  By AUYG8PF95RWUP on 2007-12-27
  If I were reviewing this software, I would give it one star as it appears that they put this together overnight. However, this is a game for my seven year old daughter, who is a huge HSM fan, so I'm writing the review from her perspective. She thinks that it's just "OK." She has asked me numerous times why the boys in the video game are singing like girls. I had not noticed...but she's right...numerous times the boys' mouths are moving, but a girls voice is coming out (and vice versa). She enjoys the grading system and getting new characters, songs, singing locations, etc. However, she grows rather bored of it after two or three songs and goes back to playing Wii Sports. Since she said it was just, "OK," I'm giving it three stars.
  
  I'm wondering if Santa should have bought her the Hannah Montana game instead.
  
  

• Entertaining but a little quirky

  
  By A1D2UXJ8GEI06U on 2007-12-29
  I'll echo a lot of what's been said - graphics are just okay, menus are touchy to navigate, and certain features/ways of getting around are not obvious. My 5 year old still loves it - she can't quite read yet but has the songs memorized (but it would help if the child is old enough to read well enough to keep up with the lyrics).
  
  One tip for getting to sing the right part - it appears that the player gets the same part whether they are a boy or a girl. If the right part for you is not that part (and it looks like it usually is the first voice you hear), then pick Duet mode, name one of the built-in profiles as the player, and put yourself in as the profile for the duet. Since both profiles get the same score, this works out okay. But I think you still end up having to sing both voices.
  
  Example - my daughter wanted to sing "Summertime" but ended up with Troy's voice - a little funny with the camera focused on her avatar singing and his voice coming out! We went back, named Troy as the player character, and put my daughter's profile (based on Gabriella) as the duet partner. We also picked "Corridors" for the venue. Voila, worked really well.
  
  UPDATE: Got this info off a post at GameSpot - after you select the song you get to the screen where you set mic volume - if you look above the mic volume you'll see "Part 1" - if you click on the character name to the left of this to select it, you can then cycle between "Part 1," "Part 2," and "Mix." I'm not 100% sure exactly all it's doing, but it should at least let you pick a mode where the right voices are mapped to the right characters.
  
  Four stars (maybe 3) if only because they could have done a somewhat better job making things work better.
  
  

• High School Musical Sing It Bundle with Microphone

  
  By A3FZV78ZPTYJE6 on 2008-01-07
  Excellent Wii game. Both of my daughters (ages 7 and 11) and their friends love singing with the songs and then being told they are a rock star. They love hearing their voices and being able to perform either as a solo or a duet. All the words are provided on the screen so it makes it very easy to sing along.
  
  
• Off the hook!!!
  By on 2007-12-29
  I'm a 10 year old girl who really loves this karaoke like game.
  The graphics are not very good. One example is Troy looks like his nose is cut off - making him look like Michael Jackson with all his nose surgeries. When I was singing with Sharpay my brother came in and asked who that was - bad graphics.
  
  You are unable to unlock songs, styles and people by singing well. They have all the songs from both the High School Musicals.
  
  They have the story line with the songs for the first H.S.M. but just the songs for the second movie.
  
  I have really enjoyed singing with this. I would advise any fan of H.S.M. to get this fun sing-along.
  
  :)
  
  
• high school musical sing it bundle with microphone
  By A15X5A5QIPEINE on 2007-12-31
  The girls love to sing along to this game. Anyone who likes high school musical will love this game. It doesn't matter if you sing well or not the game calculates the pitch so once they learn how to do that they will score an A all the time. It is fun to watch the girls sing.
  
  
• It's OK
  By A1VVLV21UD8Y3F on 2008-01-03
  I guess the hype for this was too much. When my 5 year old received it she loved it but it was annoying that you really couldn't figure out who was supposed to sing when you played with two players. She didn't really ask to play it as much as I thought she would. She said "that's all you do? is there anything else?" I guess we both expected there to be...well...more to it. Don't get me wrong, it's cute and if you want to just sing all the songs then get it! I guess I wasn't aas impressed as I thought I would be.
  
  
• lots of family fun
  By A382MX7MBJPWZT on 2008-01-15
  Wonderful for the HSM fan in your family. It actually "grades" you based on your singing abilities to keep on pitch. You can win and unlock songs from HSM2 and new outfits for the characters. It has been endless fun for our family.
  
  
• If your child likes to sing..........
  By AKEY8MMQMY8JN on 2008-02-12
  We bought this for my daughter at Xmas, and she loves it. She has always been into singing, and she has spent many hours with this game. The only beef I have with it is the grading system seems a bit easy. Although my daughter loves getting A+'s, she got kinda bored with getting them every time. But there were some cool features such as song and dress unlocks and what not. She still has her friends come over and play this game with her. If you are like me and judge your Xmas gifts on how long your kids actually play with them, then this game is well worth it.
  
  
• Qwirky, not that much fun
  By A5V9SNBANQXUG on 2007-12-29
  My niece got this game for Christmas. Thankfully we also got the Hannah Montana Wii game, we just weren't planning on giving it to her until her birthday. We had to give it to her early because of this lackluster game. If you are not musically talented and love karoke, this is not a game for you. She's a smart 8 and can sing a bit. Her friend is a talented singer too. Neither of them liked the game. Said it was too hard, couldn't figure out how to change to other characters and was more of a joke than anything. There is no warm up, introduction or anything. Hannah Montana came out and they loved it. They did the warm up and felt comfortable with the game right away.
  I wish before I had purchased the game I had seen a video clip of how the game was played. The warm up is a desperate need for this game.
  
  
• this game sucks a**
  By A1IEZOQFUCW3OD on 2008-06-13
  first of all the movies suck a** anyway so a video game of it obviously sucks also if i were id by a real video game like COD4 or supersmash bros brawl girls seriously have no taste in video games sometimes they do but dont use video games to make crappy barbie games seriously HSM sucks sh** go buy a good game,girls who like HSM are pretty much the biggest losers in the world they're like the ppl who think looks matter more then personality seriously,i wish girls would leave video games alone since they oviously have no expertise in what's fun or hardcore and awsome so basically what im saying is that 1.this game sucks 0.0 out of 10 2.ppl that like the whole HSM thing are losers and 3. stop looking at my review and go buy a good game like a shooter or a party game like supersmash bros brawl video games are for fun not total BS
  
  
• Lots of fun for any HSM Fan
  By A2OUD8P0C4YQYD on 2008-01-07
  This was so much fun. My 12 year old son and I played this all Christmas morning. He actually played it most of the day. One thing I will suggest is that although you can play the game with just one microphone, it will I'm sure be much more fun with two then you can do duets. Otherwise, I'd highly recommend this for anyone who is a fan of the HSM movies.
  
  
• Neices went bonkers....
  By A3VF9CAREQVYGG on 2008-01-07
  I got this for 2 of my neices and I never heard so much screaming...they play this for hours. Can't go wrong with High School Musical. It actually can tell if you sing the right words or not...very fun. Kinda like a little girls version of don't forget the lyrics...
  
  
• Mother of two
  By A3QEOD0HA8P79W on 2008-04-21
  High School Musical: Sing It Bundle with Microphone
  My kids play/sing this every single day! It can be a bit annoying at times, but the kids are having a GREAT TIME playing/singing. My kids bond over this and invite their friends over to sing...it's fun and they have a lot of laughs over it.
  
  
• It had the potential to be great....
  By A2TLLM2SJ9SPSB on 2008-08-04
  So here's the deal with this one... I'm a huge HSM fan and I was super excited to get this game and to sing along like the rockstar that I am. However, when you start to choose who you want to be and you start singing.. it automatically gives you the lower octives and harmonies for the male instead of the female.
  I know others have said you can kind of tweak it to make you sing either both parts but this should not have to be difficult to sing the part that you want. After my disappointment the first time I played the game, I stopped using it. I dont want to have to trick the game into letting me sing the parts that I should be singing already since I did choose the female characters!
  I dont know if I'm just doing it wrong or is this a mistake the gaming software came with that really needs to be fixed?
  
  
• Awesome Game
  By A3JZTPLMAJ2VIM on 2007-12-25
  LOVE this game! Gave it to my 10 year old for Christmas and he loves it. Getting better "grades" unlocks more clothing styles, characters and backgrounds. This is definitely a hit with my high school musical loving child. He has been playing it for hours and shows no signs of quitting soon.
  
  
• Fun for the whole family
  By AWTBRFSU911HH on 2007-12-26
  Okay, my wife and I can't sing a lick but our whole family has enjoyed this game. Our kids are early Elementary School, so the HSM theme is huge by itself. Being able to sing along is priceless. If only we could get some voice lessons too! It comes with one mic so "duets" require a spearate purchase of an additional mic.
  
  
• Just terrible
  By A30PXP11RAT9NZ on 2007-12-26
  My friends kids just love High School Musical. They can practically recite both movies which is why its so sad but not unexpected that this poorly written and delayed game is another way to milk the HSM franchise.
  
  My first complaint is every single game uses the trigger button as a back button providing a consistent control scheme for menus. Not this game. The trigger is now the accept button. The two children ages 6 and 4 just could not figure it out since it is so different from Sports, Play and Hannah Montanna.
  
  The star shaped pointer is hard to see against the background, not enough contrast for the different shades of light blue. Making changes such as picking a new song or character is not easy for a little kid.
  
  The character models are just unbelievable. Very poorly modeled, feature less and insanely bad dancing (although it is nice when Sharpay leans forward and does a little shake)
  
  The only redeeming quality for this game is the fact that your kids can sing the high school musical songs. Of course they can do that without buying this game.
  
  
• Very Karaoke-like
  By A16JXP7GX567RF on 2007-12-26
  We've only tried it out a few times so far but my 8 year old HSM fan loves it. It's basically karaoke for the HSM 1 & 2 songs. So if you or someone you know is a big fan of HSM and like the music and like to sing, it would probably be fun, since it comes with a microphone and all you do is sing the words as they come up on the tv. I'd probably give it a 3.5 star.
  
  

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