Lips: Party Classics - Xbox 360

I have had every Guitar Hero game and love that we can sing with them now, but as a woman it is hard to sing a lot of those songs. Lips does a good job of having a variety of songs. I like that you can watch the music video as you sing. There are two ways to follow the words also, which helps. When playing in a co-op some songs are split in to 2 different parts, with a background singer. Sometimes that can be harder to follow but it just adds a challenge. I now have all 3 Lips games, and am looking forward to new ones. There are hundreds of songs available to buy on Xbox live. I spent $10 on points and bought 5 songs. So that can put into perspective how much the additional songs cost. On Party Classics, there are more songs that are typical to karaoke. My friend and I make margaritas and play these games all night long!! The only bad thing is those microphones from all the other singing games do NOT work with Lips. You have to have the Xbox wireless mics, that are usually $25 each. This game said you can use other mics (I have a wired Rock Band mic with the controller built-in $45) and I could not get it to work. It would catch a few words but that was all. So if you are looking to start with Lips I suggest buying the bundle that comes with the microphones. (Lips comes with 2 and Number One Hits comes with 1)

Okay, I own practically every karaoke game for the 360, including Karaoke Revolution 2009, RB/LB, nearly the entire Guitar Hero and Band Hero series, and the entire Lips series (Lips, Number One Hits, and now Party Classics).After being very disappointed with the original Lips, Number One Hits restored my faith in the product because it was Lips but polished in every way. Plus, Number One Hits had a much better song list than the original Lips.I went into this thinking that Party Classics was just a song pack. But somehow, Party Classics is somehow software-wise weaker than Number One Hits which confuses me. The menus seems to move a little less smoothly than #1 hits. I still can't get the media center support to work with Lips. it would be awesome to have the thousands of songs i have in windows media center be instantly available in Lips. maybe it takes a really long time for Lips to detect all those songs but there's no progress bar or anything so i gave up after about 20 minutes.there were some additions to the software, especially support for USB mics! but i had problems getting the USB mics to work with the wireless mics simultaneously. when i wanted to sing with usb mic, it was inactive and only the wireless mic was active. the menu for selecting which mic to use is confusing and i kept getting error messages. so i ended up doing the hokey pull-out-batteries-out-of-wireless-mic when i want to use the usb mics and then put them back in when i want to sing with the wireless mics.also, since I thought Party Classics was a song pack, I thought you could just start singing. but it was really off so I had to resync the mics. for #1 hits, the autodetection determined it as 78 ms. for party classics, it found the lag to be 125 ms. but while the wireless mics sounded pretty good in #1 hits, they didn't sound good in party classics. i had lag problems even with autodetection. and the sound of the voice through the mics had the same artificial quality that was in the original lips.this is where the usb mics shine. i tried the guitar hero mics and it sounded so much better than the wireless mics. i haven't tried my karaoke revolution mic yet (logitech) but i expect those to shine as well. i was able to hit multipliers that were unheard of with the wireless mics. however, the usb mics are gimped in terms of scoring because you lose the free points that the wireless mics offer by shaking them. if you're competing against someone and have really good vocals, you can overcome the free points that the wireless mics get. otherwise, it's hard to ignore the points. yeah, MS, try to make everyone favor the wireless.also, MS partially fixed the disc swapping problems. if you're playing party classics and want to play a #1 hits song, you swap to the #1 hits disc and as long as you keep choosing #1 hits songs, there's no disc swapping. and once the #1 hits disc is in, the songs are marked differently so the #1 hits songs become the default songs and the other songs are marked as other disc songs.however, if you want to play a song off the original Lips disc, you have the constant swapping again.one last bad thing. this problem is becoming a problem again for me. in a game like Karaoke Revolution 2009 or Band Hero or Rock Band or Guitar Hero, you can easily know how to adjust your pitch and you feel like a stud when you can nail it. if you're singing too high, the on-screen indicator clearly tells you that you need to go lower. if you're too low, it'll tell you to go higher. however, in Lips Party Classic, it's still like the other Lips games. if you nail the pitch, you see it. but if you're off, it's hard to tell whether to go higher on the note or lower on the note. it just shows as a fuzzy miss. so you kind of sound like Tarzan as you're going from high to low to try to figure out what pitch the song wants.but to finish off the review on a good note, the song list is just sick. plenty of awesome songs to sing. all the cheesy love ballads that I imagined singing to a girl are here. To Be With You. classic. this is a really good song list and a lot of people know these songs. and you can't help but laugh at some of the songs. songs that professional singers can pull off. but songs that people who don't have perfect pitch that sound crazy funny. songs like i touch myself. it sounds sexy and playful and funny when the divinyls played it. but when average people sing it, it's gut busting funny.as always, the song library for the lips family is huge and awesome. they just need to tweak stuff to make this a truly great product. they need to find a way to fix the pitch bar. it's still much harder to read the pitch and the lyrics at the same time like in the other games. i know they don't want to copy the other games but sometimes copying is not such a bad thing.

Like the other Lips this one is great fun. Since Lips does not let you store the actual songs on the hard drive (just their icon) and you are forced to sit there changing discs while your friends sing, this is a very good purchase. This disc has enough songs from different eras and genres to keep the crew happy and you off of disc changing duty!

I love Lips line of Karaoke. A ton of fun for the whole family, even if you aren't a perfect songstress!I highly recommend this line for it's ease of use, song selection, and just plain fun!

It was great being able to track my package, and the product is awesome... I would definitely purchase from this seller again

Well first of all i enjoy singing so its just like having your own karaoke machine at home but you get to make XBOX360 points as well. Me and my girlfriend will get some drinks and sing our hearts out all night long it isnt perfect but it is totally fun!

lots of fun. My family and I love playing this game. I love the fact that you can get more music in the music store! Great music selection!

i like it