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SINGSTAR ROCKS! PLAYSTATION 2
REVIEWED BY JOSH It’s hard to know how to review a Sing Star game properly without telling people things they already know. But I’ll give it a shot. SingStar Rocks! is the rock version of the popular Sing Star franchise. In case you’ve been living under a rock (joke), or just don’t play games, here’s the gist of the drift; you sing into a special microphone and the game rates how well you do. “Sing Star” is the best mark possible, unsurprisingly. All but the most tone-deaf cretins should be able to do well on the “easy” setting. Medium is considerably harder. Hard is damn near impossible.
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I’m guessing here, but I suspect that the inability of everyone I know to do well on the hard setting has more to do with the inaccuracies of the PS2 microphone than lack of singing ability. That being said, this game is the ultimate at parties. Alcohol fuels the inhibitions of people who normally know they’re tone dear and so don’t sing. They get drunk, think they’re awesome, and start singing. They’re always awful. Therein lies the fun. It’s the only game I can think of where the worse the player(s) are, the more fun it is. The game comes bundled with the microphones, or can be bought separately. It’s a good buy, as is the rest of the Sing Star series. Get it at Games Plus.
Competition Results! And now for the winners of last week’s Socom 3 comp (check the entries in the Lettuce section on page 14-15). We had some awesome entries – check ‘em out on the letters page. But there had to be only one winner, and that person is - CeeDy TeknoFile. Come on up to the Nexus offices to collect your prize, you weird bastard. This week’s prize is a copy of V8 Supercars 3. And we’ll throw in a copy of 24:The Game for you to use as a coaster or clay bird target – if you promise us you’ll never, ever play it. To win, just tell us in 35 words or less how videogames are better than sex. Email your entry to nexus@ waikato.ac.nz. Much thanks to Games Plus for supplying the giveaway games!
GAMES PLUS - THE NEXT LEVEL: Providing you with all your necessary gaming needs S H O P 1 0 5 , C E N T R E P L A C E M A L L , V I C T O R I A S T, H A M I LT O N · P H O N E 8 3 8 0 8 0 1 XBOX · PLAYSTATION · GAMECUBE · PC · GAMEBOY · DS · PSP · MOVIES · ANIME
OPAL NERA PHOTO COMPETITION WINNERS Unfortunately, we only got two entries for this competition. TWO entries! Did you realise that this was for a FREE BOTTLE of OPAL NERA? Free, meaning you don’t need to pay for it? You best be entering in the next competition or else your ass is grass! The two winners are as follows: Mark Sullivan and Maryanne Albury. They get a bottle of Opal Nera each, and you get nothing.
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Issue 10 15 May 2006